Posted in Irish social history, Irish Labour History on Aug 11th, 2010 4 Comments »
Dr. Ann Matthews will give a talk prior to the book launch, entitled, ‘The Widow’s Mite: The Widows of 1916′, from 2.45 to 3.30pm.
Posted in Irish social history, Irish Labour History on Aug 4th, 2010 23 Comments »
Not Trevelyan, I’m afraid, but Cumann Na nGaedheal.
I came across the quote today and, well, here’s the background.
In April 1924 the government passed a Housing Act which gave grants of between €60 to €100 per house to speculative builders and to middle class households to help them construct private houses. £250,000 was set aside […]
Posted in Irish property bubble, Irish journalism, Irish Economy, Property on Jul 30th, 2010 3 Comments »
I see that the Now is a Good Time to Buy [NIAGTTB] crowd are back to sending out press releases. All bottoming out and slowdown in declines.
The usual suspects are saying that an average house price of €201,364 equals a kind of stability to the market. Well, it doesn’t. Given the type of employment we […]
Posted in Cattle, Irish Economy, Irish Labour History on Jul 25th, 2010 8 Comments »
Now we all know that the farming industry, particularly the cattle trade, is the rock on which our economic structure rests — the whole economic structure of the 26 counties which we control at the present time rests. The farming industry is the one sound and staple thing in the present welter of commercial uncertainty […]
Posted in Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Jul 25th, 2010 2 Comments »
JIM LARKIN
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Footage from Pathe News which they have listed on their site as 1920, but is more than likely from the 1913 lockout.
Firstly, Liberty Hall is intact, which means it’s pre-1916; secondly, Jim Larkin is in the footage, which means its pre-1914, as Larkin […]
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Irish social history, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Jun 27th, 2010 No Comments »
Conference schedule and abstracts below. Conference registration form is here. A pdf of the conference schedule and abstracts is here.
Open publication - Free publishing - More conference
Posted in Ireland on Jun 12th, 2010 12 Comments »
I was doing a bit of shopping on The Book Depository last night when I clicked on its real time viewer, which allows you to see what other people are buying (I was getting a copy of Tyndale’s New Testament).
Whereas this popped up from Japan:
this popped up from Ireland:
Posted in Irish Republicanism, Irish Marxism, Irish Labour History on Jun 9th, 2010 2 Comments »
[Protest in Cork against the Vietnam War, 1967. From left to right: Gerry Higgins, Jim Savage, Jim Lane, Jim McCarthy, Derry McCarthy, Noel Lane, Jim Blake, George Sisk, Gerry Madden, Barty Madden, Tom McCarthy.]
What follows deals almost entirely with internal divisions within Cork republicanism and is not meant as a comprehensive outline of republican […]
Posted in Irish social history, Irish Labour History on Jun 7th, 2010 No Comments »
Part II of The Irish Story’s interview with the author of ‘Lockout: Dublin 1913′ is now online.
Posted in Spanish Civil War, Spain, Ireland on Jun 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
The Third Annual George Brown Memorial Weekend takes place in Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny on Friday and Saturday, 25/26 June.
George Brown was the son of Francis Brown from Inistioge and Mary Lackey from Tullogher. George was reared in Manchester during the early decades of the twentieth century. At that time it was an urban area of […]
