President Mary McAleese led tributes to Ryan, describing him as “an extraordinarily talented broadcaster whose unique communication skills and larger than life persona entertained and enlivened a national audience over many years”. (Irish Times, 30 April 2010)
Senator Prendergast described the popular presenter as a man with amazing confidence, a larger than life persona and a […]
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Posted in EU, Ireland on Dec 21st, 2010 No Comments »
[From the People’s Movement]
The text of the EU treaty amendment on the permanent crisis mechanism for the euro is a simple two-sentence statement that provides a legal basis for a permanent mechanism to resolve euro debt crises.
The amendment states: “The member states whose currency is the euro may establish a stability mechanism to be activated […]
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The Irish Story has just posted part II of an interview with Brian Hanley, author of The IRA: a Documentary History, 1919-2005.
The link to the recording is here.
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[Thanks to Tom Redmond of the Communist Party of Ireland for the copies of Ripening of Time.]
The overall impression of the fourth issue of Ripening of Time is of a collective still exploring Irish economic and social history. It does not have the more polished feel of the later issues. Nonetheless, it provides some interesting […]
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Posted in obituary, music on Dec 18th, 2010 4 Comments »
Who would guess that a thing so magical
Could be so discomfited?
The stars come out like sprinkled sand
Disputing which could shine the brightest,
And the lamps lit by the servants
With a dusky glow like tortoiseshell
This night spat flames like long rainbows
Shooting from the houses through holes and cracks
into a thousand […]
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The recent release of the documentary, The Pipe, brings to the fore the issue of Ireland’s natural resources and how they have seen sold off to international interests by successive government ministers, with no regard to the welfare of the country’s citizens and the needs of the State itself.
Below is a pamphlet from 1975, authored […]
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Posted in Irish History on Dec 17th, 2010 1 Comment »
The Irish Story has just posted an interview with Brian Hanley, author of The IRA: a Documentary History, 1919-2005.
The link to the audio recording of the first part of the interview is here.
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[Video of a song that was posted last week.]
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Last year I came across a collection of around 200 tapes of oral history interviews conducted in the late 1980s and early 1990s by the North Inner City Folklore Project.
I started to digitize the recordings and I’m about half-way through them at this stage. I had to put the process on hold during the […]
Mothers 'churched' after christening [1:35m]:
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Of the Cosgrave administration [1923-1932], D.R. O’Connor Lysaght has written: “Irish credit remained dependent on British. Irish credit had to be backed by British credit. Irish currency remained a prettier form of British currency. Irish exporters supplied the British market.” This comprador bourgeois fraction, made up of ranchers, employers, and administrators operated a specific form […]
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