Ireland’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 attempting […]
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I’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 […]
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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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Reprieved! Reprieved! I was sure of it.
When you’re most despairing
The clouds may be clearing.” The Threepenny Opera.
Patrick Honohan, the governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, will be before the Bank Inquiry committee this week to talk about his 2010 report into the crisis.
We will be able to hear his explanation as to the […]
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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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I’m doing up a piece on Gombeenism for Rabble at the moment and am re-reading this article as part of it.
In it, Higgins and Gibbon explain quite clearly the class nature of farm size and cattle production in Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth century. I use a graph of this system in talks I […]
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Article from the Irish Times on the Maoist influence in Dublin secondary schools in 1970. The Maoist group in question was The Internationalists, soon relaunched as the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).
Full article below the fold.
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Came across this in Business and Finance, dated 13 November 1964. The use of life assurance to avoid tax - and this being Ireland, all legal of course.
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Not the only source of credit/growth in the Irish economy during this time, but still an interesting statistic showing that growth in Irish private bank lending from 1989 to 1994 was dominated by personal loans (including mortgages) and financial intermediaries - there was actually a drop in private bank credit supplied to the manufacturing sector. […]
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