[This is an edited version of an article I wrote which first appeared in Football Studies 11, 1 (2008). The article itself is based on a paper I presented at the 2005 Irish Sport History Conference.]
In 1955 the Irish political, cultural, and religious establishment found itself challenged by an unusual and reluctant opponent: The […]
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This is the third programme in the series, and hosted by Donagh of this blog and Irish Left Review.
There were ten issues of Gralton published from 1982-83, and three issues of Z Magazine, all in 1989.
Looking Left 003 from DCTV on Vimeo.
For online copies of Z Magazine, and issue one of Gralton, see below.
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I’m sitting in a hotel room in PIttsburgh, shifting my laptop from side to side, trying to get a signal. It’s just gone 6am and I’ve been awake for three hours, my body still working from Dublin time. I arrived in New York on Tuesday and left at 3pm the next day on a 60-seater […]
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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 […]
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“”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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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