Posted in Media on Jul 28th, 2009 3 Comments »
I’ve long thought that the Sunday Independent front loads its crap in its opening pages, then pretty much layers it on thickly in the rest using only Gene Kerrigan’s column at the end as a kind of plug of sanity to stop it all spilling out on top of the reader when they open it […]
Posted in Marx, Irish Marxism, Irish Middle Class, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History, Media on Jun 1st, 2009 2 Comments »
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 […]
Posted in Irish Marxism, Marx, Irish Labour History, Media, politics/Ireland on May 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Below is the first of four programmes on various left-wing publications in Ireland in the 1960s to 1980s. This one discusses the Irish People, which was the newspaper of Official Sinn Féin, later Sinn Féin the Workers Party, later The Workers Party.
On the panel are Dr. Brian Hanley, Queens University, Padraig Yeates, former editor […]
Posted in Film, Irish election, Media, politics/Ireland on May 15th, 2009 No Comments »
I was coming home on the bus today when I saw John O’Neill’s election poster, and couldn’t help think that I had seen him before.
Turns out that John, who’s the local Finglas candidate for Irish Socialist Network, is also noted film critic and überfan of the 1970s classic, The Exorcist, Mark Kermode.
Good luck in […]
Posted in Film, TV, Media on May 8th, 2009 4 Comments »
A curio this. In the Readers Recommend: Songs about Revolution thread on that Guardian site that I look at now and again, I came across a track ‘When The Revolution Comes’ by The Last Poets that a commenter says is the inspiration for Gil-Scott Heron’s The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
Check it out, niggaz. […]
Posted in Marx, Irish Labour History, Media on May 6th, 2009 3 Comments »
Both myself and Donagh are part of a group called the Alternative Media History Group and over the next few weeks we’ll be working on a series of four programmes for DCTV which will look at various Irish left-wing publications from the 1960s to the 1980s. The first one will focus on The Irish People, […]
Posted in TV on Mar 22nd, 2009 2 Comments »
Just watched the series finale.
Wow.
Posted in The Wire, TV on Mar 13th, 2009 No Comments »
One of the best TV series in the last number of years has been The Wire, which used to be aired rather erratically on TG4, with the fifth and final season going out late last year. So erratically was the airing, in fact, that I never managed to follow the series in succession, inevitably missing […]
Posted in Economy, Media, blogging on Feb 4th, 2009 7 Comments »
Perhaps this shouldn’t be a post at all, but I decided to publish it because a comment I left on the Irish Times business blog about it hasn’t been published – yet.
Apparently there is a quote doing the rounds on the internet which purports to be taken from Karl Marx’s Capital (or if you […]
Posted in obituary, memory, TV on Dec 10th, 2008 No Comments »
And when Bagpuss was asleep,
All his friends were asleep.
The mice were ornaments on the mouse organ.
Gabriel and Madeleine were just dolls.
Professor Yaffle was just an old wooden bookend in the shape of a woodpecker.
Even Bagpuss himself, once he was asleep, was just an old, saggy cloth cat,
Baggy, and a bit loose at the seams,
But Emily […]
