Posted in Irish social history, Irish Economy, irish culture, Labour studies, Irish working Class Culture, Irish History, Film, Irish Labour History, Irish Diaspora, Media on Feb 25th, 2008 11 Comments »
About a year ago, a number of Irish left-wing bloggers met up in Cusack´s pub on the North Strand Road in order to talk about creating a new online left-wing journal. Today, the journal finally went online. It´s name is the Irish Left Review, and it can be found here.
The idea for the journal is […]
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Below is another article by Dr. Emmet O’Connor, this time taken from the pages of the journal, Labour/Le Travail. Here, O’Connor sums up the history of labour studies in Ireland, as well as its relationship with the rest of Irish historiography. It is quite succinct, and I hope it makes a little clearer the problems […]
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A pet project of mine is the website, www.irishlabour.com. Last year I wrote to Dr. Emmet O’Connor and asked him would he like to contribute anything. He sent me the following article. Since then, however, Dublin Opinion has taken up a lot more of my internet time, and the article has been left in my […]
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There’s an interesting post by Garibaldy over on Cedarlounge that deals with a recent Hidden History programme about Irish historiography. The post generated a lot of comments, not least from myself. The post, however, got me thinking about Irish labour history, and how it is seen by the Left in Ireland.
Of the historians mentioned […]
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There are a series of new pamphlets for sale on Ciaran Crossley’s wonderfully detailed website about the Irish in the Spanish Civil War. The site has information on those who fought on either the Nationalist or Republican side.
Ciaran has put together a collection of original source material, as well as new work written by […]
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I was so tempted to call this, audio-syndicalism in Ireland.
The second Irish anarchist bookfair was held on Saturday, 3rd March, 2007. Alongside the fair, a series of lectures were organised. One of the lectures, by Dr. Emmet O’Connor, was recorded by the Workers’ solidarity Movement and posted on the web as a podcast. […]
Syndicalism in Ireland:
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Yesterday I came across an interesting presentation put together in 2006 by the head of Factual Programming in RTE, Kevin Dawson. It seemed to be geared towards executives in RTE, but it provides an insight into what Montrose thinks are the qualities of its more critically acclaimed programs, such as Hidden History.
Because the slides […]
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There is nothing new in saying that when it comes to the economy, the Irish Labour party is Billy-no-mates. Michael Taft has covered this topic on Notes On The Front, while Damian O’Broin pre-empted my article in a comment he left yesterday. It is downright bizzare that criticism of government economic policy has been left […]
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The summer school opens this Friday, 24 August at the ATGWU hall on Abbey Street, the theme of which is Republicanism and Labour. Among the many excellent speakers is Dr. Emmet O’Connor, Ireland’s foremost authority on Irish labour history. This is a rare enough opportunity to hear Dr. O’Connor speak in Dublin, and well worth […]
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For the past two years I’ve been trawling through the pages of eBay, picking up pieces of Irish political and social history along the way. A lot of what I bought was related to my doctorate, which was on the National Union of Railwaymen in Ireland from 1911 to 1923. Sometimes, though, a piece showed […]
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