Rowan Cahill

Rowan Cahill (born 1945) is an Australian radical historian and journalist with background as a teacher, and farmhand, and has variously worked for the trade union movement as a rank and file activist, delegate and publicist. During the Vietnam War he was a conscientious objector, and was prominent in the anti-war, student protest, and New Left movements of the period, primarily as a publicist and communicator. These activities led to him being placed under surveillance by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO). Cahill has been widely published in socialist, trade union, academic and mainstream publications; he has written numerous pamphlets and booklets, and is the author or co-author of three books, including a history of the militant Seamen's Union of Australia (1981). Since 2001 he has been a regular contributor to the internationally acclaimed Sydney based labour movement online journal "Workers Online".

Cahill is married to high school English and drama teacher, Pamela Cahill. Together they are parents to political economist Damien Cahill, sociologist Erin Cahill (sociologist) and poet Tim Cahill (poet).

Bibliography

*"Sea change : an essay in maritime labour history" by Rowan Cahill. Bowral, N.S.W. (1998). No ISBN
*"The Seamen’s Union of Australia, 1872-1972 : a history" by Brian Fitzpatrick and Rowan J. Cahill. Sydney : Seamen’s Union of Australia, (1981). ISBN 0959871306
*"Synthesis and hope" Rowan Cahill. Sydney : Australian Education Network, (1993). ISBN 0646145711
*"A turbulent decade : social protest movements and the Labour movement, 1965-1975" edited by Beverley Symons and Rowan Cahill. Newtown, N.S.W. : Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, (2005). ISBN 0909944091
*"Twentieth century Australia : conflict and consensus" by David Stewart, Rowan Cahill. Melbourne : Nelson, 1987. ISBN 0170070417