William Ubique Dwyer, known as Ubi Dwyer, was an Irish anarchist active in New Zealand, Australia, England and Ireland best known as the originator and principal organiser of the Windsor Free Festival.
16 Facts About Ubi Dwyer
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Bill Dwyer was educated at Newbridge College in County Kildare.
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Ubi Dwyer lived in New Zealand from the mid-1950s to 1966, where he was involved in a series of legendary events.
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Ubi Dwyer organised no-confidence motions in the leadership of the Wellington Watersiders Union and the Victoria University Students Union.
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Ubi Dwyer was convicted for calling the Queen a bludger whilst speaking in Auckland in 1966.
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Ubi Dwyer moved to Sydney in 1966, selling cheap LSD to finance anarchist activities.
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Ubi Dwyer became an exponent of psychedelic anarchism, believing acid to be a liberating substance.
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Ubi Dwyer engaged in soapbox oratory in the Sydney Domain and published a pamphlet that outlined his particular style of heterodox anarchism.
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Ubi Dwyer was sent to prison in 1968 for selling LSD, and the Australian government deported him to Ireland in 1969.
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Ubi Dwyer was said to have been asked by John Lennon to help set up a commune on an island, which may have been related to the Island Commune that Ubi Dwyer ran on Merrion Road in Dublin in 1970.
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In London Ubi Dwyer worked as a civil servant in the Stationery Office at Holborn.
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Ubi Dwyer was involved with the Freedom Press news group and its associated Anarchy magazine, particularly the "Acid Issue", and organised an "Acid Symposium" at Conway Hall in 1971.
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Ubi Dwyer was imprisoned again attempting to organise another Windsor Free Festival in 1978, which did take place at Caesar's Camp nearby.
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Sometime around 1976 Ubi Dwyer returned to Ireland, where he worked as an assistant in the physiotherapy department of a Dublin hospital.
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Ubi Dwyer continued for some years to organise a People's Free Festival in Phoenix Park, campaigned for the legalisation of cannabis, and petitioned for the H-Block hunger strikers in Long Kesh prison.
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Ubi Dwyer stood unsuccessfully as an independent candidate for the Dun Laoghaire constituency in at the 1981 and February 1982 Irish general elections, and in local elections in Dun Laoghaire.