Posted in Irish Middle Class, Fianna Fáil, Irish Society, Irish Economy, Irish Working Class, Ireland on Oct 28th, 2008 3 Comments »
“”All I’m saying is that I want to take one step back to take two steps forward,” Batt O’Keefe on Education cuts.
I teach History and English in a medium sized secondary school in Wexford Town. My sister lectures Economics in an Institute of Education. We don’t talk about it much but a big part […]
Posted in irish culture, Irish social history, Ireland on Oct 27th, 2008 6 Comments »
I was in George’s Arcade on Saturday, having a look through their Irish singles section, when I came across this from Blue in Heaven. I remember seeing them live a couple of times, the last time being the Lark in the Park in St. Annes’ sometime in the late 1980s. As far as I know […]
Posted in Irish journalism, Irish Society, Irish housing, Ireland on Oct 27th, 2008 9 Comments »
This is another taping I made of the Vincent Browne Show - side B of the programme below. Again, it’s another fascinating discussion involving Browne and an informed panel of Dr. Kevin Whelan, Prof. Tom Bartlett, and Prof. Tom Dunne, with the topic this time the 1798 rebellion.
To download, right-click “audio MP3″ and save […]
Posted in irish culture, dublin, Ireland on Oct 26th, 2008 3 Comments »
I came across an old tape today, of a Vincent Browne Show special on Brendan Behan from 1998, on the occasion of what would have been the author’s 75th birthday. His guests that night included Carolyn Swift, Ulick O’Connor, and Brian Behan. It’s about forty minutes long, and the tape runs out before the end […]
Posted in Irish Labour History on Oct 23rd, 2008 5 Comments »
Irritatingly, I missed the excellent TG4 documentary Soviet na hÉireann last night on the soviets in Ireland. According to the TG4 listing:
Soviet na hÉireann explores that heady post World War 1 era when Ireland stood on the brink of a Soviet socialist revolution which would have utterly altered the course of its history.
Heady? The notion […]
Posted in football, Ireland on Oct 15th, 2008 2 Comments »
At all turns - the world’s bankers can be seen re-emerging almost unscathed from their own rectums. I could, I suppose, delight or despair at this spectacle were I not the flippant shagger I am. Instead, my attention is drawn to the ‘bread and circuses’ option of the boys in green in action tonight at […]
Posted in Economy, Fianna Fáil, Irish journalism, Irish Society, Irish Economy, Ireland, Greens, Irish housing, Politics on Oct 3rd, 2008 8 Comments »
The Fianna Fáil plan to fix the systematic problems within the Irish banking system is… to mortgage the entire country in order to keep the system running the same way as before.
The contradiction inherent to that decision - to fix a broken system by ensuring it runs the same way as before - is […]
Posted in capitalism, Economy, Banks, Ireland on Oct 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Posted in Irish Economy, Property, Ireland on Sep 30th, 2008 2 Comments »
“But most of them are honourable, good, solid people. And the point is that if you put your balls on the table, you get the reward or you get the kick. It can go one way or the other. Guys are now feeling the squeeze and if it goes on, a lot of them are […]
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Marx, dublin, Irish social history, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Sep 30th, 2008 15 Comments »
Night is gone, a dawn
comes up in birds and sounds of the city.
There will be light
to live by, things
to see: my eyes will lift
to where the sun in vermilion sits,
and I will love thee and have pity. (Michael Hartnett)
I’m sitting on the small fenced stone wall that surrounds the central bank on Dame Street, drinking […]
