Academic Career
Farrington obtained his university education at University College Cork and Trinity College Dublin. He was a lecturer in the classics in Belfast, taught for fifteen years at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and was a Professor of Classics for over twenty years at Swansea University, Wales.
In the 1940s he became involved with socialist politics and a series of lectures he gave in Dublin schools was used as the basis of his pamphlet The Challenge of Socialism.
He retired from teaching in 1961.
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