Posted in Irish Society, Irish Economy, dublin, Irish Working Class on Mar 17th, 2010 No Comments »
It’s 5pm and I’m walking down James Street, heading towards DCTV’s warehouse studio where there’s a launch reception for a series of programmes on cycling and the city. I’m hoping to catch the station manager to ask him about the next round of programme funding from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, and to take part […]
Posted in music on Mar 16th, 2010 2 Comments »
Shellshock Rock Pt 1
A chance find on YouTube - appears to have turned up not long after I did this post on Belfast / Norn Iron punk. Somebody FedEx a case of vintage Buckfast to saintly Japanese person heyohkubo3 and put it on DO Tower’s tab please.
Links to the other 5 parts of the […]
Posted in music on Mar 15th, 2010 No Comments »
[ De Jemser that time he didn’t go down too well Upstairs in The International / Photo Ottacaro WEISS pinched from www.istrianet.org ]
Conventional as Joyce’s poetry is, we have to at least give the man credit for its musicality. Syd Barrett spotted this and gave us his wonderful version of ‘Golden Hair’ […]
Posted in The Wire, Television on Mar 15th, 2010 11 Comments »
My obsession with this show is reaching Trekkie levels, I know.
At the end of episode twelve, season four Dukie is told that he’s moving school and there’s a scene where he’s sitting at the computer and looking around the classroom, knowing that it’s the end of what had become a safe haven in his […]
Posted in Irish social history on Mar 12th, 2010 1 Comment »
The first of four community stories which together provide an overview of Community Education in Dublin. Part of DCTV’s Beyond the Classroom project produced in partnership with the Aontas Community Education Network and funded by the BAI.
These four case studies span the last 30 years and provide an insight into what community education is, how […]
Posted in Zaragoza, dublin on Mar 11th, 2010 2 Comments »
Just read on the El País website that the city of Zaragoza has undertaken to implement a new speed limit of 30km per hour for city traffic by the end of the year. It is the first Spanish city to do so.
Hang on in there Dublin, the world is catching up!
Posted in Irish social history, Irish Labour History on Mar 11th, 2010 6 Comments »
I was in Seomra Spraoi last night to pick up the latest edition of Loserdom and while I was there I called up to the zine archive. It’s on the first floor and it has a couple of hundred fanzines and alternative media publications from around the world, but mainly Ireland, UK, and USA. They […]
Posted in Economy, books on Mar 8th, 2010 8 Comments »
The title of New Capitalism? The Transformation of Work is slightly misleading: the book’s focus is not so much the transformation of work in recent years, but rather the distance between the discussion of work by academics, journalists, and politicians, and the material reality of work in the 21st century.
The nature of work is changing, […]
Posted in obituary, music on Mar 8th, 2010 8 Comments »
Posted in Economy, Irish Society, Irish Economy on Mar 8th, 2010 1 Comment »
[An open letter to the Government: Signatories are listed below]
THE GOVERNMENT’S economic strategy is failing. The Irish recession has been deeper and longer than almost any other in the industrialised world.
Consumer spending has collapsed while at the same time unemployment and emigration have soared. Crucially, investment has plummeted off the chart. Not only have Government […]
