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Had to laugh at the excuses as to why Child Benefit cannot be means-tested/taxed.
Apparently the Department of Finance is saying that such a tax could be unfair and problematic.
Is that the criteria for the Department of Finance scuppering a tax? That it’s unfair? Problematic? Couldn’t reform the tax credit system to take allowance of […]

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Jesus man, the ESRI. What the hell has happened to them?
A couple of weeks ago they came out and said “We don’t know what we are talking about.”
And today, Paul Krugman has come out and said, “Ye don’t know what ye are talking about.”
I’ve criticised Krugman in the past for taking at face value the […]

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[Photo from ‘Darkest Dublin’ collection, RSAI]
I’m using so much of Ruth McManus‘ work for my chapter on 20th century Irish housing it’s embarrassing.
Her book, Dublin 1910-1940: Shaping the City and Suburbs (Four Courts Press, 2002) is in the public library system, and is available for purchase from Four Courts here.
I’m also drawing heavily […]

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I don’t really get Twitter, but I noticed that Irish Left Review sent this one out yesterday:
My god, @davidmcw is recycling his Ethelred the Unready opener again http://bit.ly/bvbUXL. See this http://bit.ly/99hRK5 for details.
To which McWilliams replied:
@irishleftreview …and i will use it again and again and again because it is wonderfully vivid
Well good for you […]

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Conference schedule and abstracts below. Conference registration form is here. A pdf of the conference schedule and abstracts is here.

Open publication - Free publishing - More conference

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[Terry Dunne writes:]
A one day interdisciplinary conference aiming to bring together researchers whose work offers an insight into the lives of ordinary people in nineteenth century Ireland. The particular focus is on class as those lives were bound up with production, domination, exploitation and conflict.
Given the relatively sparsely documented nature of this topic and […]

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First of all, the caveats.
The Quarterly Household Survey (QHS) is a sample survey, compiled by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the details of which are outlined in Tuesday’s post which looked at broad occupations.
There are 21 economic sectors in the NACE Rev.2, and for its purposes, the CSO has amalgamated some of these to give […]

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Continuing on from our August 2009 post on the Quarterly Household Survey (QHS), Q1 2009, this is a look at employment and unemployment in the Republic, Oct-Dec ‘08 to Oct-Dec ‘09, based on the QHS Q4 2009.
We know that due to the government’s active pursuit of deflation, Ireland’s GNP shrank by world-beating 11.3% in […]

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Ostensibly an official history, John Cunningham’s study of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI), and its relationship with the education system, also touches on four key elements of Irish society over the past 100 years: religion, class, politics and economics. It looks at the changes in Ireland since the foundation of the association […]

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