Posted in Irish Society, Irish History, History on Jul 2nd, 2008 4 Comments »
I don’t know when, but I believe that Conor in some of his posts on the Property market in Ireland has made a couple of mentions of the Kenny Report, which “advocated that just slightly more than the agricultural value of land would be awarded in compensation to landholders whose land was deemed appropriate for […]
Posted in History, music, Politics on May 23rd, 2008 1 Comment »
I should say, It’s Friday, Let’s Boogie to the History of Communism in China, but that would be to much of a rip-off of Counago and Spaves legendary Friday afternoon music spot (Hi John!!).
The above is Jeffrey Lewis doing exactly what it says on the tin: providing his hip, indy audience with a history […]
Posted in Zaragoza, Spain, History, Ireland on Feb 14th, 2008 1 Comment »
There´s a charity shop on Calle San Pablo, around the corner from where I live, where I like to spend my free time. (I live on Calle Las Armas.) The Spanish - well, at least the Aragonese - do not go in for tiendas de segunda mano. I´ve only come across one second-hand book shop, […]
Posted in History, books on Feb 12th, 2008 1 Comment »
Thomas Jones unpicks James Wood’s How Fiction Works and finds that a critic who declares himself an enemy of literary theory can also find himself out of the loop when it comes to history too.
He has a strong sense of literary history - divided into two periods, pre- and post-Flaubert - but his sense […]
Posted in History on Feb 1st, 2008 3 Comments »
In his essay, Pink triangle, Yellow Star Gore Vidal tells the story of what happened when Christopher Isherwood, when arguing with a young Jewish movie producer about the Holocaust, tried to argue that the Nazi’s murder of Homosexuals was as significant as that of Jews:
“In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals […]
Posted in Irish social history, History, Ireland on Dec 9th, 2007 5 Comments »
There is no information in my Department regarding this case other than the statements contained in the Press report published on the 27th November. I am not therefore in a position to express any opinion on the matters raised in the second part of the question… The circumstances of the case appear to me to […]
Posted in History, politics/Ireland, Bertiegate, Politics on Sep 27th, 2007 12 Comments »
Probably the only thing I knew for sure about Alexis De Tocqueville and his book Democracy in America prior to reading an LRB review of Hugh Brogan’s recently published biography was that he was a French man who traveled through America in the 19th century describing the political process as he saw it and thus, […]
Posted in irish culture, irishness, phibsboro, dublin, History, Irish working Class Culture, Ireland on Jul 20th, 2007 33 Comments »
Last Saturday afternoon, having nothing more on my mind than a short stint of browsing, I found myself on O’Connell Street, watching the unfurling of two separate but equal banners. One was for a “Justice for the Bellanboy 3” rally, the other was part of a “know your rights” campaign by the Independent Workers Union. […]
Posted in dublin, Irish social history, Irish History, History on Jul 14th, 2007 26 Comments »
The latest issue of Red Banner has an article on women in the 1916 rising, written by Dr. Ann Matthews. The article focuses in on the three women who remained with the GPO garrison to the end: Elizabeth O’Farrell, Julia Grennan, and Winifred Carney. It’s an excellent piece, and well worth the €2 cover price. […]
Posted in memory, dublin, History on Jul 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Were Proust to write his masterpiece today, it would be a clip from youTube, and not a madeleine cake, that would awaken in him memories of things past. Of this I am convinced.
“at once the vicissitudes of life had become indifferent to me, its disasters innocuous, its brevity illusory…”
