Posted in Economy, Irish History on Dec 5th, 2008 3 Comments »
What with all the stuff that’s going on at the moment, with the economy and the banks and unemployment on the rise, I suppose we’re all wondering when will we reach bedrock: - you know, the point from which we can start to rebuild.
Well, you’re in luck, ‘cos the lowest point in the 1980s […]
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Marx, Irish Society, Irish social history, Irish History, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Sep 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
I’m standing at the corner of Cathal Brugha Street and Thomas Lane, waiting for my friend Lida to arrive. She’s starting up her own business soon, and wants me to write a blurb for the website. The buses are running a bit late but she gets here around 6.30pm and so we head off for […]
Posted in Fianna Fáil, Irish Economy, Irish History, Fine Gael on Jul 24th, 2008 1 Comment »
when Irish value is not threatened by imports, grants should not be necessary to create business opportunities. The only justification for granting non-traded businesses is in cases of particularly acute regional disparities within Ireland… In addition to being unnecessary, grants to non-traded businesses create a “businessmen’s dole” mentality. All companies may come to expect a […]
Posted in Irish Society, Irish History, History on Jul 2nd, 2008 2 Comments »
I don’t know when, but I believe that Conor in some of his posts on the Property market in Ireland has made a couple of mentions of the Kenny Report, which “advocated that just slightly more than the agricultural value of land would be awarded in compensation to landholders whose land was deemed appropriate for […]
Posted in Irish social history, Irish History on Jun 10th, 2008 3 Comments »
The following are all taken from the general knowledge section of the exam for Clerical Officer (temporary), which was held in June 1925. (I came across it in the National Library today while looking for something else.) Top marks overall went to Mr. to Patrick Caldwell, of 2 Ranelagh Avenue, Dublin.
If a friend offered […]
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 […]
Posted in Irish Working Class, Irish History, Irish Labour History on Dec 20th, 2007 No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in Irish History, Media, Ireland on Nov 22nd, 2007 1 Comment »
“Television is a series of lies but even the modern audience - make that particularly the modern audience - expects the bits of television that claim to be true to actually be true. It’s just the way we were brought up. We believe in television. We want our documentaries - and the documentary is a […]
Posted in UK Politics, Irish History, Property, politics/Ireland on Nov 15th, 2007 4 Comments »
Today’s Guardian contains a piece by Stuart Jeffries. In it he ponders the outcome of a successful push for Scottish independence. He writes that, post-independence, the most northerly point in Britain will no longer be in Scotland, of course, but, amazingly, in the Republic! Post-independence, the most northerly point of Britain will be Inishrahull island […]
Posted in dublin, Irish History, Irish Labour History, Ireland on Nov 14th, 2007 8 Comments »
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 […]