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 Society, Irish Economy, Ireland on Feb 27th, 2013 No Comments »
These are the PDfs I’m drawing upon for today’s work - which for me is based around the issue of social reproduction.
A couple of articles I found handy:
‘Cuts Are A Feminist Issue’ by the Feminist Fightback Collective, an anti-capitalist collective based in East London. The article first appeared in Soundings, December 2011.
‘Affect, Race and […]
Posted in ILR Journal News, Irish Marxism, Irish Economy on Jan 7th, 2013 8 Comments »
Sins of the Father may be currently out of print, with the first print run having sold out just before Christmas, but that doesn’t mean that we have to wait very long before Conor’s work appears in print again.
The proof copy of Irish Left Review Journal came through my letterbox this morning, and if […]
Posted in Irish Capitalism, Irish Economy on Aug 17th, 2012 1 Comment »
This is a short clip I made of a webinar on Irish air finance which took place in May this year. And yes it is as boring as it sounds but in it the participants revealed a mind-set which I found quite fascinating.
They are talking about the risks today and one of them said […]
Posted in god's away on business, Banks, Irish Economy on May 21st, 2012 No Comments »
[Source: Central Bank of Ireland Annual and Quarterly Reports, 1988-1998]
Graph outlining the explosion in new Irish bank credit directed towards financial sector and personal lending (including mortgages) before and during the so-called ‘celtic tiger’ years.
Irish bank credit directed towards manufacture barely rises until the late 1990s - it actually drops during the early […]
Posted in god's away on business, Banks, Irish Economy on May 17th, 2012 No Comments »
This is the distribution and growth of bank credit in Ireland from 1988 to 1998. The figures are taken from the Central Bank of Ireland Quarterly Bulletins. The lion’s share of new credit went to financial intermediation (investment in financial products) and personal consumption (mortgages/personal lending). Manufacture is near the bottom in terms of growth […]
Posted in god's away on business, Irish Economy, Irish social history on May 10th, 2012 No Comments »
Not the only source of credit/growth in the Irish economy during this time, but still an interesting statistic showing that growth in Irish private bank lending from 1989 to 1994 was dominated by personal loans (including mortgages) and financial intermediaries - there was actually a drop in private bank credit supplied to the manufacturing sector. […]
Posted in god's away on business, Irish Economy on May 6th, 2012 2 Comments »
The ‘good tiger/bad tiger’ analysis that’s embraced by large sections of the Irish Left - that the initial growth was caused by an increase in foreign industrial jobs, with the second wave a property bubble - simply doesn’t stand up when you look at job growth in Ireland during the period. But it is supported […]
Posted in Irish Economy, Irish social history, Irish History on Feb 29th, 2012 No Comments »
Giving a talk tomorrow @ 1pm on the history of the Irish economy from 1922 to 2008, Central Library, ILAC Centre, Henry St, D.1 All Welcome!
http://www.dublincity.ie/RecreationandCulture/libraries/Events/Pages/the_irish_economy.aspx
Posted in Irish Capitalism, Irish Society, Irish Economy on Feb 12th, 2012 No Comments »
Essential reading on Ireland’s corporation tax regime and the IFSC in a report commissioned by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Northern Ireland Committee.
