Posted in great irish bands, irish culture, Irish music on Mar 7th, 2009 1 Comment »
I know very little about Peter Delaney, but his song “if you become impossible” I absolutely adore. Have a listen below.
His myspace is here.
Enjoy.
Posted in capitalism, Marx, Economy on Mar 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Two more videos from Brendan M. Cooney, where he gives a reading of the labour process under capitalism, with particular regard to Harry Braverman and his classic, Labour and Monopoly Capital.
The full text of the videos is available on Brendan’s website, here.
Posted in Ex Members of Fall, Fianna Fáil on Mar 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Posted in Economy on Mar 5th, 2009 1 Comment »
Sean O’Riain has an excellent post up on the Progressive Economy blog at the moment, in which he says that the collapsing exchequer returns show that we need a growth strategy - a point which echoes many of Michael Taft’s posts on the topic but is rarely mentioned elsewhere. If we are even going […]
Posted in French, cinema on Mar 4th, 2009 1 Comment »
[ Sur la plage de Belfast poster from Director’s own site ]
A short film crops up fairly regularly on French TV that reminds me somewhat of Conor’s modus operandi on a couple of damn good posts on this blog (I’m thinking of his posts from about this time last year using old family […]
Posted in PDs, politics/Ireland on Mar 3rd, 2009 2 Comments »
Posted in Fianna Fáil, politics/Ireland on Mar 1st, 2009 6 Comments »
Posted in Fianna Fáil, Economy, Fine Gael on Mar 1st, 2009 14 Comments »
…and this brings me to the third point which goes to the root of the whole matter: that the relation to capital and labour, employer and employed, should not be one of hostility and suspicion and self-seeking, but one of sympathy and co-operation, each caring for the interests of the other as if they were […]
Posted in Ex Members of Fall, RTE, FAI, football on Mar 1st, 2009 3 Comments »
I must have watched this a hundred times back in 2002-03, as RTE used it to close the night’s broadcast, in lieu of the national anthem. It´d be on about 3am, but was always worth the wait.
Enjoy.
