Posted in Irish Economy, aesthetics on Aug 29th, 2011 3 Comments »
Forgive me please, I was looking at the Irish Times website quite idly earlier today, and was curious what one of the most popular items, called Dear World….from Ireland was about.
Apparently it’s a postcard competition:
“Three weeks ago we asked readers to send us their postcards for a modern Ireland – among the hundreds […]
Posted in irish culture, Irish music, phibsboro on Aug 24th, 2011 2 Comments »
[Thanks to ec for the image.]
He who tires of Phibsboro, tires of life.
Posted in Irish Marxism on Aug 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
This blog has been started to provide an alternative media outlet and information centre for those people interested in and concerned about democracy and justice around the globe. Its aim is to bring to people a communist perspective on global events with a particular emphasis Ireland.
Link to the blog : Communist Perspective
Posted in Sins of the Father on Aug 22nd, 2011 2 Comments »
It can be downloaded as a kindle at amazon.com.
Price is $11.74 - around €8.
It is also available on amazon.co.uk.
Posted in Irish Marxism, Irish social history, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Aug 20th, 2011 No Comments »
Clip of an interview with veteran Irish socialist, Joe Deasy, which took place in Mr. Deasy’s home in Crumlin in November 2009.
The interviewer is Mick O’Reilly.
Joe Deasy talks about his earliest political memories, his move towards socialism in the 1940s, and his encounters with ‘Big’ Jim Larkin on the council of Dublin Corporation.
For […]
Posted in Irish Economy, Irish social history, Irish Labour History on Aug 20th, 2011 4 Comments »
[The figures above are taken from the Census of Industrial Production series, which is published by the Central Statistics Office. The series, in various guises, goes back to 1926. The numbers for foreign-owned industry, however, start in 1983. The National Library call numbers are : OPIE I/77 (yrs 1926 - 1978) ; OPIE U/112 (yrs […]
Posted in EU, Economy, Ireland on Aug 19th, 2011 No Comments »
[From Communist Party of Ireland]
The much heralded recovery from the 2007/8 economic crisis has proven short lived and the policies pursued by the the Obama administration of “quantitative easing”, the European Union’s ongoing attempts to prop up a collapsing financial system have shown not to provide any long term solutions. The Irish […]
Posted in Irish Capitalism, Irish journalism on Aug 19th, 2011 13 Comments »
Posted in TV, Media on Aug 18th, 2011 12 Comments »
Flicking over to TV3 last night, and watching Declan Ganley getting brown-nosed by a four-fifths of a panel that included a former employee of his in Libertas - his professional relationship with Kevin O’Connell went unannounced of course.
Posted in Bankrupt ireland, Banks, Ireland on Aug 18th, 2011 2 Comments »
I’m Just going through all that NAMA has done to the Irish economy, the fundamental damage to possibilities of growth in the Irish economy, for an article I’m writing for Look Left, and all I can think of is the letter written by the first guy sent to to deal with Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.
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