Posted in Irish journalism, financialization, irish political economy, bank inquiry, Banks, Irish Economy, Irish History, Irish social history, Irish housing, Ireland on Jan 23rd, 2015 No Comments »
Shadows never go away.
Might be you don’t see them,
but they’re always clinging to your heels.” A Song of Ice and Fire
When I was a child in primary school my way of dealing with Irish class was to find a word in the question that matched a word in the text and hope for the […]
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Barry O’Dowd, Vice-President of Emerging Businesses, IDA Ireland, talking to Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) last month.
This was broadcast 16 June 2013. Taken from short piece on Ireland and tax avoidance, original link here.
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Slides from presentation given at the summer school.
Who Benefits From Austerity? Mechanics Institute Limerick, May 2013 from conormccabe
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Wednesday, 3 October at 7.00pm
The National Library of Ireland
Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
‘Dublin in a revolutionary decade: 1913 – 1923’
Pádraig Yeates, author of ‘A City in Turmoil: Dublin 1919-21‘ will uncover unknown and neglected aspects of the Irish Revolution.
This lecture is the first of a new monthly lecture series entitled ‘BiblioFiles’. The lectures will provide a […]
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I’ve been given a short gig with the Mater Dei Institute of Education, teaching a module on Irish labour history. It starts in September and I have a good bit of freedom as regards themes and content. I sat down this morning to write up a course outline, but I soon realized that for the […]
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Posted in Irish History on May 10th, 2012 No Comments »
Making Money in Dublin 1500-2000:
Commerce in the city of Dublin over five centuries
09.30 - 16.30h Friday 25 May 2012
The Banking Hall, Foster Place, Dublin 2
Open Access Symposium
Admission free
The Dublin City Research Group is pleased to announce a one-day symposium ‘Making Money in Dublin since 1500′. This exciting topic opens a window on far […]
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Posted in Irish History on Mar 3rd, 2012 5 Comments »
[Funeral of Larry White, Cork, 1975]
Great article on Saor Eire over on The Irish Revolution blog, link is here.
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Giving a talk tomorrow @ 1pm on the history of the Irish economy from 1922 to 2008, Central Library, ILAC Centre, Henry St, D.1 All Welcome!
http://www.dublincity.ie/RecreationandCulture/libraries/Events/Pages/the_irish_economy.aspx
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In October 2011 Pat Rabbtte gave out thirteen licenses to twelve companies (press release here). The amount of blocks left around Ireland can be seen in this PDF map here, and the way it is done in the UK and other countries is explained in this SIPTU document from last year, available here (see pages […]
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This is a comparison between the number of vacant housing units uncovered by last year’s census, compared with the social housing needs of the state on a county-by-county basis, as provided by the Dept. of the Environment.
The excel file of this information is here.
Below is a graph of the ratio of vacant housing to social […]
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