Interview with Green Isle hunger strikers, Jim Wyse and John Guinan
Posted in Irish Economy, Irish Working Class, Ireland on Mar 1st, 2010 1 Comment »
Interview with Green Isle hunger strikers from Frank Schnittger on Vimeo.
Posted in Irish Economy, Irish Working Class, Ireland on Mar 1st, 2010 1 Comment »
Interview with Green Isle hunger strikers from Frank Schnittger on Vimeo.
Posted in Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Feb 28th, 2010 No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in Irish Marxism, Irish Working Class, Irish History, Irish Labour History on Feb 21st, 2010 No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in Irish Marxism, Irish working Class Culture, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Feb 6th, 2010 1 Comment »
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 […]
Posted in Irish social history, Irish working Class Culture, Irish Working Class on Dec 22nd, 2009 15 Comments »
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 […]
Posted in Irish Marxism, class, Irish social history, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Dec 7th, 2009 7 Comments »
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 […]
Posted in Zaragoza, Irish Working Class, Irish History, Irish Labour History, Spain on Dec 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
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Posted in Irish Marxism, Irish social history, Irish working Class Culture, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Nov 27th, 2009 No Comments »
[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 […]
Posted in Irish Marxism, Irish Society, Irish Working Class on Nov 8th, 2009 1 Comment »
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 PopupPosted in Irish Trotskyism, Irish Marxism, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History, politics/Ireland on Oct 26th, 2009 No Comments »
[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 […]