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David Montgomery, now in his eighties, is one of the founders of new labor history in the U.S. He’s a contemporary of E.P. Thompson, and his works include the seminal The Fall of the House of Labor, and Workers’ Control in America. Below is an audio of his 45 minute presentation at the WCSA conference, […]

 

 David Montgomery: Play Now | Play in Popup

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Part one in a 24-part series detailing the collapse of the Irish financial system.
At the end of the post, there are two thumbnail images which link to higher-quality copies.
Enjoy.

Continued tomorrow…

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Below is an audio recording I made of Bill Fletcher Jr´s talk at the Working Class Studies Association´s Conference, which was held in Pittsburgh this month (June 09). Bill is a long-time political and labor activist, and is also executive editor of Black Commentator. I’ve also uploaded seven minutes of video of the same talk, […]

 

 Bill Fletcher, Labor and Globalization: Play Now | Play in Popup

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It’s my birthday today, and no, I’m not going to tell you how old I am. But let us say that you’re never too old to get presents. I have yet to receive any but I’m sure when I get home they’ll be presented with a flourish and I will, no doubt, make an emotional […]

 

 Smog - Bathysphere: Play Now | Play in Popup

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This is a press release taken from the Survivors of Institutional Abuse Ireland (SOIAI) website about tomorrow’s March of Solidarity, which will proceed from the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square at noon. Go here to sign the petition online. Image courtesy of the Irish Times.
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A silent March of Solidarity with survivors of the institutional […]

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Scott, I owe you big time.
cheers.

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I’m sitting in a hotel room in PIttsburgh, shifting my laptop from side to side, trying to get a signal. It’s just gone 6am and I’ve been awake for three hours, my body still working from Dublin time. I arrived in New York on Tuesday and left at 3pm the next day on a 60-seater […]

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This is the second progamme in the four-part series, Looking Left, which is being made for DCTV. The topic here is the Ripening of Time, the political journal of the Ripening of Time Collective, thirteen issues of which were published between 1976 and 1980. On the panel are Ursula Barry, UCD Women’s Education, Research and […]

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Below is a link to a new blog maintained by three Irish historians: Dr. Juliana Adelman, Dr. Lisa-Marie Griffith, and Dr. Kevin O’Sullivan. The opening post states

Pue’s Occurrences was an eighteenth-century newspaper ‘containing the most authentick and freshest translations from all parts, carefully collected and impartially translated’. Our Irish history blog aims to provide a […]

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