Posted in Irish Capitalism, Irish Middle Class, Irish Society, Irish Working Class on Sep 8th, 2009 6 Comments »
Last Friday on the Late Late Show, Ryan Tubridy tried to get the Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, to apologise to the Irish people for the state of the economy. It was an all-too-familiar routine - one that frames the roots of the present crisis in terms of moral failure, and the beginnings of a solution […]
Posted in Marx, Irish Marxism, Irish Middle Class, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History, politics/Ireland on Aug 23rd, 2009 3 Comments »
Below is a reproduction of the entry on Irish Trotskyism in Robert Jackson Alexander’s book, International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991). An edited version of the book, including an edited version of the entry on Ireland, is available on Google Books, here.
The article below is simply […]
Posted in irish culture, Irish Middle Class, Irish social history on Aug 16th, 2009 8 Comments »
Viewed by many as possibly the worst Irish film of all time, The Courier was released in 1988 in a chorus of publicity and, ahem, glamour. It did terrible at the box office, was shown once on UTV in 1990, and pretty much sank without trace after that. It is, quite frankly, awful.
However, back […]
Posted in fuckwits, Education, Irish Middle Class on Aug 6th, 2009 5 Comments »
Much back slapping this morning in the IT in the event of the publication of “one of the most comprehensive league tables published to date”. It is in essence a version of the Irish Times own feeder list but “is the first to take socio economic background into account”.
In other words the table which has […]
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Irish Economy, Irish Working Class on Aug 4th, 2009 2 Comments »
This is the part I meant to get to yesterday, but I found myself going off on tangents instead. With regard to background to the Quarterly Household Survey Q1 2009, its samples and definitions, please have a look at the previous post.
with regard to the following statistics:
“In Employment” is defined as “persons who worked in […]
Posted in Economy, Irish Middle Class, Irish Society, Irish Economy, Irish Working Class on Aug 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
Last month, Seán O’Riain wrote a post for progressive economy, which used the Quarterly Household Survey (Q1 2009 ) to throw some light on the class aspects of the recent rise in unemployment in Ireland.
the major trend that stands out is the disastrous collapse in working class employment with growing differences between the position […]
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Irish Society, Irish Working Class on Jul 12th, 2009 3 Comments »
Income is not a determinator of class, and to think of class in such terms is to miss the point that class is a social relation, not a category. Income, however, can be used as an indicator of class relations, as wage levels are usually, although not always, related to the types of positions […]
Posted in Marx, Irish Marxism, Irish Middle Class, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History, Media on Jun 1st, 2009 2 Comments »
This is the second progamme in the four-part series, Looking Left, which is being made for DCTV. The topic here is the Ripening of Time, the political journal of the Ripening of Time Collective, thirteen issues of which were published between 1976 and 1980. On the panel are Ursula Barry, UCD Women’s Education, Research and […]
Posted in capitalism, fuckwits, Irish Middle Class, Banks on May 1st, 2009 No Comments »
Hilarious little clip from RTE’s Questions and Answers, 27 April 2009, when the former CEO of the Royal Bank of Scotland (Ireland), Mark Duffy, was asked his opinion on the government’s wasteful electronic voting debacle.
Enjoy.
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Fianna Fáil, Irish Society, Irish Economy, Irish Working Class, Ireland on Oct 28th, 2008 3 Comments »
“”All I’m saying is that I want to take one step back to take two steps forward,” Batt O’Keefe on Education cuts.
I teach History and English in a medium sized secondary school in Wexford Town. My sister lectures Economics in an Institute of Education. We don’t talk about it much but a big part […]
