Posted in fuckwits, Irish journalism, Irish Middle Class, Irish Economy on Jul 21st, 2010 20 Comments »
Jesus man, the ESRI. What the hell has happened to them?
A couple of weeks ago they came out and said “We don’t know what we are talking about.”
And today, Paul Krugman has come out and said, “Ye don’t know what ye are talking about.”
I’ve criticised Krugman in the past for taking at face value the […]
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Irish housing, Irish social history, Irish Working Class on Jul 14th, 2010 1 Comment »
[Photo from ‘Darkest Dublin’ collection, RSAI]
I’m using so much of Ruth McManus‘ work for my chapter on 20th century Irish housing it’s embarrassing.
Her book, Dublin 1910-1940: Shaping the City and Suburbs (Four Courts Press, 2002) is in the public library system, and is available for purchase from Four Courts here.
I’m also drawing heavily […]
Posted in Irish journalism, Irish Middle Class on Jul 7th, 2010 5 Comments »
I don’t really get Twitter, but I noticed that Irish Left Review sent this one out yesterday:
My god, @davidmcw is recycling his Ethelred the Unready opener again http://bit.ly/bvbUXL. See this http://bit.ly/99hRK5 for details.
To which McWilliams replied:
@irishleftreview …and i will use it again and again and again because it is wonderfully vivid
Well good for you […]
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Irish social history, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Jun 27th, 2010 No Comments »
Conference schedule and abstracts below. Conference registration form is here. A pdf of the conference schedule and abstracts is here.
Open publication - Free publishing - More conference
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Irish Working Class, Irish History, Irish Labour History on May 22nd, 2010 13 Comments »
[Terry Dunne writes:]
A one day interdisciplinary conference aiming to bring together researchers whose work offers an insight into the lives of ordinary people in nineteenth century Ireland. The particular focus is on class as those lives were bound up with production, domination, exploitation and conflict.
Given the relatively sparsely documented nature of this topic and […]
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Irish Society, Irish Economy, Irish Working Class on May 16th, 2010 No Comments »
First of all, the caveats.
The Quarterly Household Survey (QHS) is a sample survey, compiled by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the details of which are outlined in Tuesday’s post which looked at broad occupations.
There are 21 economic sectors in the NACE Rev.2, and for its purposes, the CSO has amalgamated some of these to give […]
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Irish Society, Irish Economy, Irish Working Class on May 11th, 2010 2 Comments »
Continuing on from our August 2009 post on the Quarterly Household Survey (QHS), Q1 2009, this is a look at employment and unemployment in the Republic, Oct-Dec ‘08 to Oct-Dec ‘09, based on the QHS Q4 2009.
We know that due to the government’s active pursuit of deflation, Ireland’s GNP shrank by world-beating 11.3% in […]
Posted in Education, Irish Middle Class, Irish social history, Irish Labour History on Mar 25th, 2010 10 Comments »
Ostensibly an official history, John Cunningham’s study of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI), and its relationship with the education system, also touches on four key elements of Irish society over the past 100 years: religion, class, politics and economics. It looks at the changes in Ireland since the foundation of the association […]
Posted in Irish Capitalism, Irish Middle Class on Sep 15th, 2009 4 Comments »
The class of people who told us two years ago that everything is ok, are the same class of people who are now telling us what to do to put things right.
They were acting completely in their self-interest then, and they’re acting in their self-interest now.
There’s a news clip from two years ago […]
Posted in Irish Capitalism, Irish Middle Class, Irish Society, Irish Working Class on Sep 8th, 2009 6 Comments »
Last Friday on the Late Late Show, Ryan Tubridy tried to get the Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, to apologise to the Irish people for the state of the economy. It was an all-too-familiar routine - one that frames the roots of the present crisis in terms of moral failure, and the beginnings of a solution […]
