Posted in Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Jul 25th, 2010 2 Comments »
JIM LARKIN
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[click on image for Pathe News site]
Footage from Pathe News which they have listed on their site as 1920, but is more than likely from the 1913 lockout.
Firstly, Liberty Hall is intact, which means it’s pre-1916; secondly, Jim Larkin is in the footage, which means its pre-1914, as Larkin […]
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Irish housing, Irish social history, Irish Working Class on Jul 14th, 2010 1 Comment »
[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 […]
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Irish social history, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Jun 27th, 2010 No Comments »
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
Posted in class, Irish Middle Class, Irish Working Class, Irish History, Irish Labour History on May 22nd, 2010 13 Comments »
[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 […]
Posted in Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on May 18th, 2010 1 Comment »
[Photo by Helena Sheehan]
Yesterday was our final session with Sam Nolan. We recorded about 12 hours over six separate sessions, starting back in February, and we’re hoping to interview some more trade union activists during the summer.
I’m moving house this week so probably no more posts from myself until next week.
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Irish Society, Irish Economy, Irish Working Class on May 16th, 2010 No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Irish Society, Irish Economy, Irish Working Class on May 11th, 2010 2 Comments »
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 […]
Posted in Irish Marxism, Irish Republicanism, Irish Capitalism, Irish Economy, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Apr 28th, 2010 21 Comments »
[Click on image to read the booklet]
I’m putting up this booklet with a couple of caveats, but in spite of them, the booklet does show how the Irish left has pointed out the serious flaws within the Irish banking system for decades, and that the problems are structural, not personal.
Last year’s publication by Shane […]
Posted in Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Apr 25th, 2010 1 Comment »
Posted in Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Apr 4th, 2010 No Comments »
On Easter Monday the 5th April 2010 The North Inner City Folklore Project will unveil a plaque to Captain Sean Connolly of the Citizen Army who was killed on the roof of the City Hall during the 1916 Rising.
1 At Liberty Hall, 12 noon, a pageant will take place which will include the unfurling of […]