Posted in irish culture, Irish social history, Ireland on Oct 27th, 2008 6 Comments »
I was in George’s Arcade on Saturday, having a look through their Irish singles section, when I came across this from Blue in Heaven. I remember seeing them live a couple of times, the last time being the Lark in the Park in St. Annes’ sometime in the late 1980s. As far as I know […]
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Marx, dublin, Irish social history, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Sep 30th, 2008 15 Comments »
Night is gone, a dawn
comes up in birds and sounds of the city.
There will be light
to live by, things
to see: my eyes will lift
to where the sun in vermilion sits,
and I will love thee and have pity. (Michael Hartnett)
I’m sitting on the small fenced stone wall that surrounds the central bank on Dame Street, drinking […]
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 Irish Middle Class, Marx, Irish Society, Irish social history, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Sep 4th, 2008 6 Comments »
It is not the poverty
Of soil in Leitrim that makes me raise my hat
To fools with fifty pounds in a paper bank” (Lough Derg, Kavanagh)
A friend of mine is fond of saying, “he who tires of Bray, tires of life”. And there’s more than a line of truth in that one. As for myself, today […]
Posted in Irish Economy, Irish social history, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Jul 28th, 2008 4 Comments »
In the Saorstát there is a very large internal trade in cattle, the 13 central eastern counties importing great herds of calves and store cattle from the seven south-western and from the six north-western counties. Before describing this trade it will be helpful to obtain an accurate impression of the ages of the calves and […]
Posted in Edenmore, memory, dublin, Irish social history on Jul 27th, 2008 2 Comments »
Came across this on YouTube. An interesting piece of footage of South Dublin, Walkinstown Cross, and the Crumlin Road (Children’s Hospital) during the “Big Snow”.
Enjoy.
Posted in Irish social history, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Jul 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
It’s been a busy couple of weeks. I have a two-month summer teaching contract, after which I’ll be visiting my post office on a weekly basis. At the same time I’m trying to get some research done, and so I’m snapping up stuff in the library after classes, and mulling over it as I walk […]
Posted in Irish social history, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Jul 20th, 2008 2 Comments »
A couple of months back I was putting together a research proposal that would look at the social, economic, cultural life and kinship of an ordinary housing estate in Dublin, from its planning inception in the 1950s through to the start of the “Celtic Tiger” boom in the early 1990s. The idea is to collate […]
Posted in irish culture, Irish music, aesthetics, Irish social history on Jun 24th, 2008 2 Comments »
Another purchase from St. Vincent de Paul. This one ties into my own little history of this city. I used to play drums in a couple of bands, one of which was the Wrycatchers. I would easily rank us as one of the worst bands ever to grace the stage at the Underground on Dame […]
Posted in irish culture, aesthetics, Irish social history, music on Jun 24th, 2008 3 Comments »
I picked this up in the St. Vincent de Paul’s shop on Sean MacDermott Street, and I have to say the most daring and radical part of the whole album is the cover. (The lady’s plan for that honey she has there, I have to say, match my own.) Anyway, the blurb on the back […]
