Posted in great irish bands, irish culture, Irish music, Irish social history on Mar 17th, 2009 5 Comments »
I’m working on a podcast documentary about the Jubilee Allstars at the moment, and I’m hoping to have it finished by the end of the month. As a bit of a run-up to it, here’s a single they put out with ROAD Records and Alpha Relish in 1999. The song is Lamplight, which ended up […]
Posted in dublin, football on Mar 13th, 2009 9 Comments »
The miracles of modern technology - I don’t get a meaningful communication from a living being from one end of the week to the other (despite the 4 or 5 means of communication available) but here I am tonight in the SW of France watching Shamrock Rovers return to a home of their own after […]
Posted in fuckwits on Mar 13th, 2009 11 Comments »
Johnny Waters is using the rapidly approaching St. Patrick’s Day to spout the usual drivel:
I find it infinitely interesting that, even now, in response to such provocation, someone will immediately mutter disparagingly about Dev and his “comely maidens dancing at the crossroads”, although the speech referred to neither phenomenon. Unfazed by such semantics, […]
Posted in The Wire, TV on Mar 13th, 2009 No Comments »
One of the best TV series in the last number of years has been The Wire, which used to be aired rather erratically on TG4, with the fifth and final season going out late last year. So erratically was the airing, in fact, that I never managed to follow the series in succession, inevitably missing […]
Posted in Irish journalism, irish culture, Irish Labour History on Mar 11th, 2009 2 Comments »
Another test-run of www.issuu.com. This time it’s issue one of the 1980s socialist magazine, Z.
Z magazine will be one of the publications discussed in the forthcoming Looking Left series of programmes on DCTV. As soon as we get more details, we’ll let you know. But, for now, let us know how this looks, and […]
Posted in irish culture, Irish music, Ireland on Mar 11th, 2009 7 Comments »
I just heard of www.issuu.com, which allows you to upload magazines which can then be read online.
So, I’m giving this a go with Heat, no.5
I’ve noticed that I’d have to change the layout next time, in that I’d need to give one page, one photo instead of the two pages one photo that I did […]
Posted in Irish Marxism, Zaragoza, Irish Labour History, Spain, Ireland on Mar 10th, 2009 2 Comments »
An interview with Bob Doyle on Dublin Community Television, who fought at Belchite, Aragón, Spain, and who died in January this year.
Bob Doyle: last surviving Irish anti fascist fighter of the XV International Brigade RIP from DCTV on Vimeo.
Posted in Economy on Mar 9th, 2009 4 Comments »
John Green of Counago and Spave has linked to the Naomi Klein article ‘All of Them Must Go’ that was published in the Nation and The Guardian a while back.
They shouted, “¡Que se vayan todos!” (”All of them must go!”) and forced out a procession of four presidents in less than three weeks. What […]
Posted in capitalism, Economy on Mar 8th, 2009 1 Comment »
Whether we can get out of this crisis in a different way depends very much upon the balance of class forces. It depends upon the degree to which the entire population says ‘enough is enough, let’s change this system’. Right now, when you look at what’s been happening to workers over the last 50 years, […]
Posted in Irish journalism, great irish bands, irish culture, Irish music on Mar 8th, 2009 7 Comments »
I’m doing a bit of research for an upcoming series of programmes on DCTV which will look at left-wing media in Ireland from the 1970s to today. Basically, I’m taking photos of old newspapers and journals and putting them into pdfs so people can read and talk about them. In order to copy the […]
