Dublin Opinion

Interview with Green Isle hunger strikers from Frank Schnittger on Vimeo.

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Des Brannigan was born in Dublin in 1918. His family lived in the basement flat of no.19, North Great Georges Street. He went to sea at an early age, where he first became active in trade unionism, eventually becoming general secretary of the Marine, Port and General Workers’ Union.
In his later years he was […]

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For the past couple of months, myself and Mick O’Reilly (former Irish regional secretary ATGWU) have been conducting a series of interviews with veteran Irish left activists, including Sam Nolan, Des Brannigan, and Joe Deasy. It is hoped that these interviews will be broadcast on DCTV in the near future. In the meantime, here is […]

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Here is a short seven-minute clip of Thomas Mac Giolla speaking at the Desmond Greaves School last September. I was there to record Brian Hanley and Mick Ryan for an audio podcast, but when Thomás got up to speak I grabbed my digital camera and filmed as much as I could before the memory card […]

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This is from an interview which took place in a pub in Dublin, as part of an Irish labour and working class oral history archive. The questions focused mainly on housing, as well as the experience of growing up on a Corporation estate in the 1960s/1970s.
Towards the end of the interview, I asked the […]

 

 Mod: Play Now | Play in Popup

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Since the 1990s, anthropologists working in Ireland have increasingly concerned themselves with ideas of class and class relations. Previously, the central themes were rural life, community, kinship and social structure. In 1932 Conrad M. Arensberg and Solon T. Kimball undertook a two-year study of small communities in Co. Clare. The resultant publications, An Irish Countryman […]

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[Joe Deasy giving a speech in Middle Abbey Street, c.1965.]
The following clip is from an interview with Joe Deasy, who was born in 1922 and who met and worked with Jim Larkin Snr in the 1940s. Both were Labour councillors on Dublin Corporation. Joe would later leave the Labour party and join the Irish […]

 

 John Deasy: Irish Marxist: Play Now | Play in Popup

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The following recordings are from the final session in the dayschool organised by Irish Socialist Network and Fourthwrite.
The session was held today, Saturday 7 November 2009, in the Central Hotel, Dublin.
The title of the session was: Building a 21st Century Left
Chair: Mick O’Reilly
Speakers: Murray Smith (New Anti-Capitalist Party, France), Ciaran Perry (independent councillor […]

 

 Introduction, Mick O'Reilly [4:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 Murray Smith [24:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 Ciaran Perry [14:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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[This is a repost from Cedarlounge, 15 October 2009]

Of the other elements involved perhaps it is worth mentioning the Irish Workers Group, which is a revolutionary Socialist group which aims to mobilise the Irish section of the international working class to overthrow the existing Irish bourgeois states, destroy all remaining imperialist organs of political and […]

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