Posted in Banks, Irish Capitalism, Irish Economy, Irish social history, Irish History, Irish Labour History on May 3rd, 2013 No Comments »
Slides from presentation given at the summer school.
Who Benefits From Austerity? Mechanics Institute Limerick, May 2013 from conormccabe
Posted in Irish Labour History on Apr 30th, 2013 No Comments »
Thanks to Mick Healy for the link.
This is the story of veteran Republican Liam Sutcliffe who joined the IRA in 1954. Within a few months he was an IRA agent in Gough barracks Armagh during `operation Harvest’. Sutcliffe later left the IRA and operated with the breakaway Joe Christle group during the 1950s Border campaign.
In […]
Posted in Irish Labour History on Mar 23rd, 2013 2 Comments »
Download file here.
Posted in Irish Labour History on Dec 17th, 2012 No Comments »
Writing a chapter on the 1913 Lockout for a book on the history of the Irish working class in the 20th century edited by David Convery, and I’m struck by the similarities in the tax avoidance then and now. This is from something I wrote for Saothar but I’ll be raising the same point in […]
Posted in Irish Labour History on Sep 25th, 2012 No Comments »
Found this letter while doing some research on James Connolly and the Irish Socialist Republican Party.
It’s from a party member, Edward Stewart, who wants to set the record straight on the bundling of socialists in with anarchists in the coverage of the assassination of President McKinley.
Mr. Stewart is not happy to be associated with […]
Posted in Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Sep 23rd, 2012 No Comments »
This audio clip here is from Howard Zinn, talking about the class nature of government legislation - in terms of economics, society, culture and education even the most cursory of glances at the history of Irish legislation reveals the embedded nature of class within the state.
Posted in Irish Labour History, Ireland on Sep 22nd, 2012 No Comments »
Eleanor Marx, daughter of Karl Marx, talking about women’s rights in the Phoenix Park in Dublin, May 1891.
Posted in Irish social history, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Sep 18th, 2012 5 Comments »
Article from the Irish Times on the Maoist influence in Dublin secondary schools in 1970. The Maoist group in question was The Internationalists, soon relaunched as the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).
Full article below the fold.
Posted in Irish Labour History on Sep 17th, 2012 16 Comments »
Call made in May 1935 for an inquiry into a death at Artane Industrial School. Public knowledge, but the State simply didn’t care. And it was the Irish Communist Party making the call…
Posted in events, Irish Labour History on Sep 9th, 2012 No Comments »
