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SIDNEY LUMET, 1924-2011

Posted in obituary on Apr 9th, 2011 No Comments »


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REVIEW: WRITING IRELAND’S WORKING CLASS: DUBLIN AFTER O’CASEY, by Michael Pierse (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)

Posted in Irish social history, Irish working Class Culture on Apr 7th, 2011 5 Comments »

What a thing for a country to do to people - to take away who they are.” (Peter Sheridan, playwright, 2005)
In 2004 the author and academic Helena Sheehan wrote that for the first five years of RTE’s flagship soap opera, Glenroe, nobody worked for a wage. She also noted that in its other soap, Fair […]

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No Country For Old Tires

Posted in Odd, Art on Apr 6th, 2011 No Comments »

More about it here.

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IRISH NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING REVENUE, 1984-2010

Posted in Media, Ireland on Apr 5th, 2011 1 Comment »

[All primary advertising revenue figures taken from National Newspapers of Ireland. House price stats from the CSO].
Interesting correlation between house prices and newspaper advertising revenue.
It’s something always talked about - how much newspapers relied on the housing bubble for income.
First of all, newspaper advertising revenue from 1984 to 2010, adjusted for inflation (2010 […]

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The Bank Bail-Out Is Costing Us Far Too Much Open Meeting - Gresham Hotel, O’Connell St, Dublin 1. 8pm- Tues 5th April 2011

Posted in Banks, Ireland on Apr 2nd, 2011 No Comments »


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A Flame Has Been Lit in Ballylea, Cork : A Call To Arms

Posted in Banks, Ireland on Apr 1st, 2011 No Comments »

[A statement from the organisers of The Ballyhea Bondholder Bailout Protest March]
A few bullet points to explain the on-going weekly Ballyhea Bondholder Bailout Protest march (every Sunday at 11.45am, our fifth march coming up this Sunday):
· Since the dawn of time most wars have been about rape and […]

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MONDAY BANK BAILOUT: NOTHING BUT THE SAME OLD STORY

Posted in Banks, Ireland on Apr 1st, 2011 3 Comments »


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A stress-free day for finance houses— A stressful day for Irish working people!

Posted in Banks, Ireland on Apr 1st, 2011 No Comments »

[Statement from the Repudiate the Debt Campaign]
The Government plans to pump billions more into failed institutions and to establish two new banks, to be made out of Bank of Ireland and AIB. This does nothing for the debt crisis, both sovereign and personal. It will do nothing to increase lending to small businesses. It will […]

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FATHER TED IS A NOT A COMEDY: IT IS A FLY-ON-THE-WALL DOCUMENTARY

Posted in Irish Society, Ireland on Apr 1st, 2011 No Comments »


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Child Welfare & Class in Ireland: An Historical Overview - a talk by Dr. S. Buckley, Solidarity Books, Cork, 5 April 2011

Posted in Irish social history, Ireland on Apr 1st, 2011 No Comments »

Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley lectures in History at UCC. She is the author of a number of articles and is currently preparing her book on the history of child welfare in Ireland for publication, titled Child Welfare, the NSPCC, and the State in Ireland: 1889-1956.
She recently completed a history of the Haematology Association of Ireland […]

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