Posted in Industrial Relations, Irish social history, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Apr 4th, 2010 9 Comments »
Below is a clip from an interview with Sam Nolan of the Dublin Council of Trade Unions, where Sam discusses the 1979 tax marches. It’s taken from a series of interviews which have been conducted with Sam, and which chart his life as a political and trade union activist, going as far back as the […]
Posted in Irish Marxism, Irish social history, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Apr 3rd, 2010 11 Comments »
I was given a box of pamphlets, leaflets and periodicals during the week, by a member of the Communist Party of Ireland who’s doing a bit of spring cleaning at home. ‘They’re just in my shed, Conor, so you can have them if you want. I can leave them in the bookshop for you.’
So […]
Posted in Education, Irish social history, Irish Working Class, History on Mar 17th, 2010 No Comments »
As part of the ongoing relationship with Aontas. It was suggested in mid 2008 that DCTV and the Aontas – Community Education Network would be a good fit to explore a production project. This series, supported by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland sound and vision scheme is the most visible result of that partnership […]
Posted in Irish Society, Irish Economy, dublin, Irish Working Class on Mar 17th, 2010 No Comments »
It’s 5pm and I’m walking down James Street, heading towards DCTV’s warehouse studio where there’s a launch reception for a series of programmes on cycling and the city. I’m hoping to catch the station manager to ask him about the next round of programme funding from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, and to take part […]
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 18 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 […]
