Of the Cosgrave administration [1923-1932], D.R. O’Connor Lysaght has written: “Irish credit remained dependent on British. Irish credit had to be backed by British credit. Irish currency remained a prettier form of British currency. Irish exporters supplied the British market.” This comprador bourgeois fraction, made up of ranchers, employers, and administrators operated a specific form […]
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Sam Nolan at 80 from conormccabe on Vimeo.
This is an eighteen-minute video which was made for the occasion of Sam Nolan’s birthday celebration in the Mansion House, which was held on Friday 8 October 2010.
The video is drawn from over eleven hours of Sam in conversation with Mick O’Reilly, former Irish secretary of the ATGWU […]
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Topics: Iceland, the Euro, and the EU; The crisis of the Irish economy; Corporate Influence and Lobbying: Who really makes policy in Ireland and the EU?; Challenges for the Irish public service today; Gender, class, and the economy in Ireland.
Speakers: Ragnar Arnalds (Former Minister for Finance, Iceland), Paula Clancy, Tom O’Connor, Niamh Brennan, Brian Denny, […]
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[Protest in Cork against the Vietnam War, 1967. From left to right: Gerry Higgins, Jim Savage, Jim Lane, Jim McCarthy, Derry McCarthy, Noel Lane, Jim Blake, George Sisk, Gerry Madden, Barty Madden, Tom McCarthy.]
What follows deals almost entirely with internal divisions within Cork republicanism and is not meant as a comprehensive outline of republican […]
Jim Lane, Sept. 2009 [19:02m]:
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[Mike Hehir, leading national spokesman of the CPI M-L, 1970]
When The Internationalists were first set up in Trinity College Dublin in November 1965, it was not as a fully-formed Marxist-Leninist party, but ‘as an exercise in better staff-student relations.’(1) Prominent among the initial group was Hardial Bains, a lecturer in bacteriology who was originally […]
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a continuation of Sunday’s post (with background information), the final 25 minutes of Sam Nolan talking about the Unemployment Protest Committee and Jack Murphy.
Part two: the election of Jack Murphy - writing speeches for Murphy - abstaining from the vote for Taoiseach - lack of impact in the Dáil - government cuts the food subsidies […]
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There’s a great post on the 1953 unemployed protest march over on Come Here To Me, which pushed me to finally get around to editing this footage of Sam Nolan talking about the unemployed protests later that decade, in 1957 and 1958.
This is the first thirty minutes of an hour-long clip. It was filmed in […]
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As with the first article in this series, forgotten faces is more of a discussion piece than a finished analysis. It’s only in the later issues of The Ripening of Time, especially nos. 11 and 13 which date from 1979 and 1980 respectively, that we get a full and detailed Marxist analysis of Ireland in […]
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Last month Tom Redmond of the CPI gave me a large collection of newspapers and pamphlets relating to the Irish left, including all fourteen issues of The Ripening of Time (1976-1982), an Irish Marxist journal produced by the Ripening of Time collective.
Throughout its six-year run, The Ripening of Time provided introductions to Marxist theory, as […]
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[Click on image to read the booklet]
I’m putting up this booklet with a couple of caveats, but in spite of them, the booklet does show how the Irish left has pointed out the serious flaws within the Irish banking system for decades, and that the problems are structural, not personal.
Last year’s publication by Shane […]
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