Posted in Irish Society, Irish social history, Ireland on Oct 16th, 2011 3 Comments »
This is from last Tuesday. I was asked to give a short talk (around 16 mins) at the Dame Street Occupation/Assembly and I was chuffed to be able to do so.
Thanks to verysharpknives for putting it up and for irishelectionliterature for highlighting it on cedarlounge.
Corner Speaker, Occupy Dame Street […]
Posted in Irish Capitalism, Irish social history on Sep 13th, 2011 2 Comments »
I was doing a bit of research for my brother yesterday. He’s an Irish maritime historian and he asked me to get him a news report on a seamen strike in August 1951.
There was one line in it, though, which caught my eye.
It had to do with the effect of the strike on […]
Posted in Irish Marxism, Irish social history, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Aug 20th, 2011 No Comments »
Clip of an interview with veteran Irish socialist, Joe Deasy, which took place in Mr. Deasy’s home in Crumlin in November 2009.
The interviewer is Mick O’Reilly.
Joe Deasy talks about his earliest political memories, his move towards socialism in the 1940s, and his encounters with ‘Big’ Jim Larkin on the council of Dublin Corporation.
For […]
Posted in Irish Economy, Irish social history, Irish Labour History on Aug 20th, 2011 4 Comments »
[The figures above are taken from the Census of Industrial Production series, which is published by the Central Statistics Office. The series, in various guises, goes back to 1926. The numbers for foreign-owned industry, however, start in 1983. The National Library call numbers are : OPIE I/77 (yrs 1926 - 1978) ; OPIE U/112 (yrs […]
Posted in Irish social history, Irish Labour History, Spain on Aug 9th, 2011 1 Comment »
The recently formed Peter Daly Society Wexford will unveil a memorial stone to the Socialist Republican Peter Daly in Monageer (Enniscorthy) Co. Wexford on Saturday the 3rd of September at 6.00 pm
Peter Daly fought and died with the Irish contingent of the International Brigade in the war against fascism in Spain in September 1937. […]
Posted in Irish social history, Irish Labour History on Jul 24th, 2011 4 Comments »
Short clip from an interview I recorded with Sean Garland as part of the Irish Left Oral History Archive.
Sean is currently fighting extradition to the United States. The following is a letter of support which is signed by Jack O’Connor, General President, SIPTU; Jimmy Kelly, Regional Secretary, UNITE; and Eamon Devoy, General Secretary, TEEU.
We […]
Posted in Irish Marxism, Irish property bubble, Sins of the Father, Irish Society, Irish Economy, Irish Working Class, Irish social history, Irish History on Jul 21st, 2011 2 Comments »
Many thanks to Budapestkick for recording Conor’s talk at the Cork launch of Sins of the Father in Solidarity Books, which he sent on to me today. Due to some technical difficulty getting the files online he suggested I host them here. By all accounts it was a great evening, a full house and from […]
Solidarity Books Main Talk: Play Now | Play in Popup Solidarity Books Questions Part 1: Play Now | Play in Popup Solidarity Books Questions Part 2: Play Now | Play in Popup Solidarity Books Questions Part 3: Play Now | Play in PopupPosted in Irish Middle Class, Sins of the Father, Irish Economy, Irish housing, Irish Working Class, Irish social history, Irish Labour History on Jul 14th, 2011 No Comments »
[From Solidarity Books]
Solidarity Books is pleased to present a talk and book launch by Conor McCabe (of the blog “Dublin Opinion) on his new book, “Sins of the Father”.
The talk, which will be on the general thesis of the book – tracing the decisions that shaped the Irish economy over the last eight decades and […]
Posted in Sins of the Father, Irish social history, politics/Ireland, Ireland on Jul 11th, 2011 No Comments »
Worldbystorm of Cedarlounge has just put up a post on The Just Society. I want to focus on a particular aspect of that document, one which ties in with the present banking crisis.
On pages 10 to 12 of the document, the authors concern themselves with Irish banking and monetary policy.
They noted that ‘neither the […]
