[This is the proposal for the pilot course as it stands today - hoping to refine and refocus it over the coming weeks, but this is the base of it here.
If the pilot course is successful, and there is sufficient interest within the organised trade union movement to continue with the course, then I’d see […]
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I brought this up on Facebook - the idea of a course on Irish political economy - and I asked what questions would people like to see such a course address. Here are some of them - please feel free to add to this list in the comments below:
… Did Ireland benefit from being in […]
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This is something I’m thinking of running some time this year. All very rough at the moment but I’ll put up my notes on designing the course as I work through it, and sure see what happens.
I think something like this is needed. However, in order to make it viable, it needs to have a […]
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I was going through the back issues of Irish Workers Voice a couple of weeks back when I came across an article in 1936 by Sean Murray entitled “Hunger for the Farmers”.
It places the Irish rural working class at the heart of the analysis and highlights the fact that the suspension of land annuities […]
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Clip of an interview with veteran Irish socialist, Joe Deasy, which took place in Mr. Deasy’s home in Crumlin in November 2009.
The interviewer is Mick O’Reilly.
Joe Deasy talks about his earliest political memories, his move towards socialism in the 1940s, and his encounters with ‘Big’ Jim Larkin on the council of Dublin Corporation.
For […]
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[The figures above are taken from the Census of Industrial Production series, which is published by the Central Statistics Office. The series, in various guises, goes back to 1926. The numbers for foreign-owned industry, however, start in 1983. The National Library call numbers are : OPIE I/77 (yrs 1926 - 1978) ; OPIE U/112 (yrs […]
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The recently formed Peter Daly Society Wexford will unveil a memorial stone to the Socialist Republican Peter Daly in Monageer (Enniscorthy) Co. Wexford on Saturday the 3rd of September at 6.00 pm
Peter Daly fought and died with the Irish contingent of the International Brigade in the war against fascism in Spain in September 1937. […]
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Short clip from an interview I recorded with Sean Garland as part of the Irish Left Oral History Archive.
Sean is currently fighting extradition to the United States. The following is a letter of support which is signed by Jack O’Connor, General President, SIPTU; Jimmy Kelly, Regional Secretary, UNITE; and Eamon Devoy, General Secretary, TEEU.
We […]
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[From Solidarity Books]
Solidarity Books is pleased to present a talk and book launch by Conor McCabe (of the blog “Dublin Opinion) on his new book, “Sins of the Father”.
The talk, which will be on the general thesis of the book – tracing the decisions that shaped the Irish economy over the last eight decades and […]
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