Posted in Ireland on Jul 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
[From the Communist Party of Ireland]
The heads of State of the 17th member states of the euro have once again concluded that the failed policies being imposed upon the Irish and Greek peoples must be maintained and even pursued with greater vigour. The EU will now send in “advisers” to directly monitor and supervise of […]
Posted in Sins of the Father on Jul 21st, 2011 No Comments »
[Dr. Jim Stewart’s article for the July 2008 edition of Tax Justice Focus is an excellent summary of the actual function of the IFSC and its role within the shadow banking system.
Needless to say both the article and Dr. Jim Stewart were all but completely ignored by Ireland’s newspapers and TV stations, who instead […]
Posted in Sins of the Father, Irish journalism, Banks on Jul 21st, 2011 No Comments »
[Interesting to observe the bemused attitude that the Irish Times took towards the Celtic Tiger when the phrase first appeared in Autumn 1994. The paper, quite correctly, saw it as an accounting exercise, nothing more than the shuffling of paper by accountants. It also found the lurid prophecies of the ESRI to be quite […]
Posted in Irish Marxism, Irish property bubble, Sins of the Father, Irish Society, Irish Economy, Irish Working Class, Irish social history, Irish History on Jul 21st, 2011 2 Comments »
Many thanks to Budapestkick for recording Conor’s talk at the Cork launch of Sins of the Father in Solidarity Books, which he sent on to me today. Due to some technical difficulty getting the files online he suggested I host them here. By all accounts it was a great evening, a full house and from […]
Solidarity Books Main Talk: Play Now | Play in Popup Solidarity Books Questions Part 1: Play Now | Play in Popup Solidarity Books Questions Part 2: Play Now | Play in Popup Solidarity Books Questions Part 3: Play Now | Play in PopupPosted in cinema, politics/world on Jul 20th, 2011 1 Comment »
Genoa is on my mind because I am traveling there in next few days to meet an old English friend who was beaten into a coma outside the Genoa Indymedia Centre on the night after Carlo was killed. We’re going there to march with the Italians remembering the extreme brutality meted out by the Italian […]
Posted in Sins of the Father on Jul 19th, 2011 1 Comment »
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Posted in fuckwits, Labour, politics/Ireland on Jul 18th, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in Sins of the Father on Jul 18th, 2011 1 Comment »
[In a recent interview with DCTV I said that the American TV drama, The Wire, had a huge influence on the structure and approach I undertook when writing Sins of the Father. I first put up this post on 13 October 2009, and I think already you can see the basic thesis of the book. […]
Posted in Banks, Labour, Fine Gael, politics/Ireland, Ireland on Jul 18th, 2011 No Comments »
They lift it to their shoulders and carry it;
they put it in place, and there it stands,
unable to move from where it is.
If anyone prays to it, it cannot answer
or save them from disaster.” (Isaiah 46:7)
Posted in Fine Gael, politics/Ireland on Jul 18th, 2011 3 Comments »
I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to men has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.” (The Seventh Seal, 1957)
[Thanks to ec]
