Dublin Opinion

SINS OF THE FATHER: INTERVIEW WITH DCTV

Posted in books on Jun 29th, 2011 2 Comments »

Thanks to Barra and Ciarán for asking me in and giving me the opportunity to talk about the book.

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Sins of the Father official book launch: Connolly Books, 30 June 2011

Posted in books on Jun 21st, 2011 16 Comments »

All are welcome!

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Gombeens, Spivs and Bankers

Posted in Sins of the Father Reviews on Jun 17th, 2011 2 Comments »

Sins of the Father is now available in Easons, O’Connell St, Dublin and Hodges Figgis on Dawson Street, and hopefully throughout the country soon. This is the first review of the book to appear in print. Originally published in the June edition of Liberty, SIPTU’s newspaper. Thanks to Scott for allowing me to republish it […]

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Scoláire Staire: new online Irish history journal - call for contributions

Posted in Irish History on Jun 14th, 2011 1 Comment »

[From Dr. Adrian Grant]

I am currently in the process of establishing a new online Irish history magazine called Scoláire Staire (History Scholar). The projected release date is October 2011 but we are currently looking for authors among the postgrad and recently graduated Phd community in Irish universities. If you have any ideas for short articles, […]

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Review of Sins of the Father in Liberty, June 2011 issue

Posted in Irish Capitalism, books, Ireland on Jun 14th, 2011 4 Comments »

The issue is available as a pdf here (June 2011 issue). The review is on page 23.

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INTERVIEW WITH RICKY DINEEN : NUN ATTAX, FIVE GO DOWN TO THE SEA?, BEETHOVEN, FINBAR DONNELLY, AND THE CORK MUSIC SCENE

Posted in irish culture, great irish bands, Irish music, Irish social history, Irish working Class Culture, Irish Working Class on Jun 11th, 2011 18 Comments »

[Special post by David Lacey]
The groups Nun Attax, Five Go Down To The Sea? and Beethoven were formed around the musical partnership of singer Finbarr Donnelly and guitarist Ricky Dineen. All three groups have received considerable coverage in the past decade with the radio documentary/podcast ‘Get That Monster Off The Stage’ and Mark McAvoy’s ‘Cork […]

Five go Down To The Sea? - The Glee Club [2:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

Five Go Down To The Sea? - Jumping Joley [2:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

Five Go Down To The Sea? - Fishes for Compliments: Play Now | Play in Popup

Five Go Down To The Sea? - There's a Fish on Top of Shandon (Swears he's Elvis): Play Now | Play in Popup

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Soooo Predictable

Posted in EU, capitalism, Economy on Jun 10th, 2011 3 Comments »

The continuing strife around the Eurozone, and the next stage austerity being imposed on Greece and the heroic resistance to it on the streets of Athens and elsewhere, as well as all the rest of the so called chaos and ‘crisis’ going on, one would think that all of it has come out of a […]

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Conor’s Book, Sins of the Father is Out Now!

Posted in Economy, Irish Marxism, Irish Society, Irish Economy, books, Irish History, Ireland on Jun 10th, 2011 11 Comments »

As readers may no doubt already be aware Conor’s book Sins of the Father: Tracing the Decisions that Shaped the Irish Economy is available from the publisher The History Press, Ireland and various online book retail outfits. It’s due in bookshops tomorrow.
This is a significant event, certainly within the history of this blog, and […]

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