Posted in Irish Left Review, History, cinema on Oct 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Seanachie of Pleasures of Underachievement has written a great essay on contemporary French cinema, and says that the popular perception is fogbound in cliché.
One of the favourite punchbags for self-appointed francophobes is French cinema. Boring, dull and talky are the epithets one hears most often, to the extent that for many people, French cinema […]
Posted in NATO, Georgia, Irish Left Review on Aug 15th, 2008 2 Comments »
One part of Irish Left Review which is barely noticed is the Links of Interest feature which appears in a side bar along side each of the articles. It’s based on a del.icio.us widget which means that we can update the site with links to articles with a short summary that readers of ILR might […]
Posted in Irish Left Review, Lisbon Treaty, Media on Jul 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
There was a lot of noise generated last week about the Lisbon situation when the Irish Times reported Nicolas Sarkozy’s comments during a private meeting with colleagues in his UMP party. The comments, reported by party members to journalists outside the meeting suggested, non, insisted that Ireland would have to have a second referendum.
This […]
Posted in Irish Left Review on Jun 20th, 2008 No Comments »
The fallout from the Lisbon vote has proved very distracting and I haven’t had a chance to mention some of the things that have gone up on Irish Left Review in the last week, all of which are well worth reading.
First of all is Damian O’Broin’s very convincing essay on how the environment and […]