Dublin Opinion

Lecture given by Harvey last month at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).

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Continuing on from our August 2009 post on the Quarterly Household Survey (QHS), Q1 2009, this is a look at employment and unemployment in the Republic, Oct-Dec ‘08 to Oct-Dec ‘09, based on the QHS Q4 2009.
We know that due to the government’s active pursuit of deflation, Ireland’s GNP shrank by world-beating 11.3% in […]

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I knew very little about Hope Sandoval, or the Warm Inventions apart from a few stray things when I went along to the gig in Whelan’s last Friday.
Basically, I knew she was the singer with Mazzy Star whose album Among My Swan I have had for years but which I haven’t listened to that […]

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There’s a great post on the 1953 unemployed protest march over on Come Here To Me, which pushed me to finally get around to editing this footage of Sam Nolan talking about the unemployed protests later that decade, in 1957 and 1958.
This is the first thirty minutes of an hour-long clip. It was filmed in […]

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The poor auld Sasanachs - after years of thinking a hung parliament was one where the average length surpassed the 6 inch mark… they wake up this morning having to work out what it actually means.
Luckily they have this precedent : (Enjoy)

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Second video in Brendan Cooney’s series on Marx’s Law of Value. Brendan’s blog is here, kapitalism101. The text of the video is here.

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In case you didn’t go to Pavement last night and are consoling yourself that it probably wasn’t all that good and they were most likely unrehearsed and shambolic, well, you should probably stay off the internet today.
After the glow, the scene, the stage, the set
Talk becomes slow but there’s one thing I’ll never forget
I’m not […]

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As with the first article in this series, forgotten faces is more of a discussion piece than a finished analysis. It’s only in the later issues of The Ripening of Time, especially nos. 11 and 13 which date from 1979 and 1980 respectively, that we get a full and detailed Marxist analysis of Ireland in […]

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For more crystal quotes and masterful insights from Dan O’Brien, check out here.

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Gil Scott-Heron played in Tripod last night - a very bluesy, relaxed affair heavily featuring his band Amnesia Express - a trio on congos, harmonica, and various wind instruments. The gig was brief, with a feeling that the man had just stopped off to play a few tunes for you and tell a few jokes. […]

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