I am proud to be among the many Irish and Ireland-based artists from across creative disciplines who have chosen to publicly support the growing campaign of boycott against apartheid Israel. Compared to the imprisoned Palestinian…
Monthly Archives For August 2010
Brand Ireland
Wall supports Brand Ireland Following on recent calls by An Taoiseach Brian Cowen and journalist Enda O’Doherty for Irish writers to ‘do the state some service’ (and leaving aside the fact that the first man…
Ratings Downgrade? Blame Raspberry Vinaigrette. The Recession Diaries – August 27th
One can only chuckle. Last year the pronouncements of rating agencies were treated as though they were written on Mount Sinai. Downgrades, or the threat of such, were interpreted by our high priests of deflation…
Both Night and Morning
“for Mr Ó Nualláin, ‘might have been’ has loomed largely in his college life – larger than his bantam strutting will admit” “When Mr Fitzpatrick grows up, he will find that ‘might-have-been’ figures too largely…
Social Europe Needs a New Economic Model | John Palmer at Social Europe Journal
Social Europe Needs a New Economic Model | John Palmer at Social Europe Journal There is however, a deep issue at stake if defence of decent European social standards is to be placed at the…
José Saramago – An Appreciation
José Saramago 1922 – 2010 One of the many startling things about José Saramago was that he was an overtly political writer in a literary world in which being political does not pay. Remarkably, at…
Fight Like a Man!
Meet the Spartniks! As regular readers of my blog are already know, my father was in the Spanish air force back in the time when it was the poor relation of the arm services. The…
The Suffering of the Rich – Can You Feel It? The Recession Diaries – August 25th
There have been some outrageous and hilarious things said in this economic debate. I don’t know how economic historians will come to rank them. But surely at the top must be the claim that the…
Ireland Trades in its Property Bubble for an Export Bubble
A small follow on from Michael Taft’s post, about the well-known exports tax scam known as the “Double-Irish”. The story of the tax scam has gone around the world and some at this stage, but…
The Rage and the Ridiculous. The Recession Diaries – August 23rd
The Central Bank Governor, Patrick Honohan, is outraged. In particular, he is outraged that Irish bond spreads are so high, ridiculously high. Don’t the ‘international markets‘ realise the dynamism of our export sectors, the budgetary…
Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists
Book Review: Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists by Daniel Dorling, Policy Press (2010) Over the last two decades or so, scholars concerned with social justice have offered a number of different frameworks for helping us…
We Are Not Need No Education!
The Bullingdon Club: Producing Your Cultured Elite for the Last 200 Years This week is a big one for all those layabout teenagers getting their A-level results and Leaving Cert certificates so that they can…
Urban Wanderings
Book Review:The Situationists and the City, edited by Tom McDonough, (2009) Verso. It isn’t entirely clear why Verso thought now would be a good time to publish a book of extracts from the writings of…
The Lessons of Bhopal and BP Horizon Deepwater
It will soon be 26 years since the people of Bhopal were enveloped in a poisonous miasmic cloud of gas, which gushed forth from the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India. On that night…
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- Notes for a Book on Money and the Irish State - The Marshall Aid Program April 2, 2016Ireland’s Economy: Radio Eireann talks on Ireland’s part in the Marshall Plan. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1949 [official/government publication] NLI: OPIE X 26.A Forward by the Taoiseach Mr. John A. Costello S.C., T.D. (pp.1-2) Since its inception European Economic Co-operation has done much towards restoring European economic solvency and has challenged the forces which have been […]Conor McCabe
- The Financial Crisis:What Have We Learnt? August 29, 2015I start teaching a level one (introduction level) module in UCD Monday Week on the Financial Crisis. As always, I’ll post what I can here to share it with activists and progressives. This is a short audio I’m putting up for the students to give them a sense of where the module is coming from. […]Conor McCabe
- Money in 35,000 Words or Less August 22, 2015I’ve been asked to write a short book on money. The manuscript is due in the end of April 2016. As with most things I do with political economy and education I’ll be posting stuff here as I go along. I just find it an interesting way of working through ideas, concepts and analysis. Anyway, […]Conor McCabe
- THE WRATH OF KANE: BANKING CRISES AND POLITICAL POWER January 30, 2015I’ll be writing more about this at the weekend but I think this is a good standalone clip from evidence to the banking inquiry given by Prof. Ed Kane on Wednesday 28 Jan 2015. He was asked by Deputy Pearse Doherty to elaborate on the statement below which was made in a paper that […]Conor McCabe