Posted in History, Ireland on Jan 29th, 2012 No Comments »
This conference will take place on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 March 2012 in the seminar room of the National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. The cost to attend is €15 for the two days, which is payable on the day at registration. Those interested in attending, please contact Brian Casey: briancasey03@gmail.com in […]
Posted in Education, Irish social history, Irish Working Class, History on Mar 17th, 2010 No Comments »
As part of the ongoing relationship with Aontas. It was suggested in mid 2008 that DCTV and the Aontas – Community Education Network would be a good fit to explore a production project. This series, supported by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland sound and vision scheme is the most visible result of that partnership […]
Posted in History on Jan 30th, 2010 No Comments »
UC Berkeley’s Harry Kreisler interviews historian and activist Howard Zinn. (2001) Series: Conversations with History
Posted in United States, History on Jan 29th, 2010 3 Comments »
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
Posted in History on Oct 19th, 2009 3 Comments »
We’re young people like you. We do things you do. Some of us are at work, some at school, and some at university and college. We come from all classes, backgrounds, races and religions - or none at all. We are as varied as any group can be; in fact we’ve only got one thing […]
Posted in History on Jul 13th, 2009 2 Comments »
I see that the person who told me about this talk also contacted WorldbyStorm on Cedars, who was more prompt in putting it up than I was. Still I didn’t want to bump down Conor’s great post below too quickly.
For those of you interested, Roma Marquez Santo, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War will […]
Posted in History, Ireland on Jun 1st, 2009 1 Comment »
Below is a link to a new blog maintained by three Irish historians: Dr. Juliana Adelman, Dr. Lisa-Marie Griffith, and Dr. Kevin O’Sullivan. The opening post states
Pue’s Occurrences was an eighteenth-century newspaper ‘containing the most authentick and freshest translations from all parts, carefully collected and impartially translated’. Our Irish history blog aims to provide a […]
Posted in History, cinema on Oct 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Seanachie of Pleasures of Underachievement has written a great essay on contemporary French cinema, and says that the popular perception is fogbound in cliché.
One of the favourite punchbags for self-appointed francophobes is French cinema. Boring, dull and talky are the epithets one hears most often, to the extent that for many people, French cinema […]
Posted in UK Politics, History, politics/world on Jul 29th, 2008 7 Comments »
This clip dates from 1948, and was made to explain the welfare state to “Charley”, who thinks it’s all a “bleedin´waste of money.” The title is: “Charley’s March of Time.”
Enjoy.
Posted in Irish Society, Irish History, History on Jul 2nd, 2008 4 Comments »
I don’t know when, but I believe that Conor in some of his posts on the Property market in Ireland has made a couple of mentions of the Kenny Report, which “advocated that just slightly more than the agricultural value of land would be awarded in compensation to landholders whose land was deemed appropriate for […]
