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Archive for July, 2010

Irish Birth Rate and 1980s Social Change

Posted in Irish property bubble, Irish social history on Jul 6th, 2010 7 Comments »

Donagh just pointed this out to me.
“CONTRACEPTION BILL ADVANCES IN IRISH PARLIAMENT” (21 Feb 1985)

Coincidence, maybe?

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Cumann na nGaedheal and Private Enterprise, 1924

Posted in Irish social history on Jul 4th, 2010 15 Comments »

They [the government] had discovered during the last few years that neither municipalities, nor local authorities, nor State organisations were in a position to deal alone in a satisfactory manner with the housing problem. They had come to the conclusion - and he thought it would be subscribed by all who had knowledge of the […]

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Mark Radcliffe on Chris Sievey

Posted in obituary on Jul 3rd, 2010 No Comments »

[This is just wonderful. Link via John Green.]

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Marc Coleman:The Best is Yet to Crumble

Posted in fuckwits on Jul 1st, 2010 15 Comments »

I planned to read The Best is Yet to Come today, as part of a summary of contemporary publications on the Irish economy for a book I’m working on, but Jesus Almighty Christ.
Do you know that line that if you have an infinite amount of monkeys and if you give them an infinite amount […]

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