Posted in Irish Middle Class, Irish Economy, Irish Working Class, Working Class on Apr 19th, 2011 No Comments »
Since 2008, the number of middle class jobs in Ireland has fallen by about five per cent. During the same time, the number of working class jobs has fallen by about 15 per cent - three times the rate of that for professional and managerial occupations.
However, when we look at the amount of jobs lost […]
Posted in Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Apr 12th, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Jan 5th, 2011 No Comments »
Emmet O’Connor speaks at an event in Derry celebrating the centenary of James Connolly’s return to Ireland, organised by the Free Derry Collective. 26 July 2010.
Posted in Irish Marxism, Irish Working Class on Dec 19th, 2010 No Comments »
[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 […]
Posted in Irish social history, Irish working Class Culture, Irish Working Class on Dec 16th, 2010 3 Comments »
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 […]
Posted in Irish Marxism, Irish social history, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Oct 28th, 2010 2 Comments »
Sam Nolan at 80 from conormccabe on Vimeo.
This is an eighteen-minute video which was made for the occasion of Sam Nolan’s birthday celebration in the Mansion House, which was held on Friday 8 October 2010.
The video is drawn from over eleven hours of Sam in conversation with Mick O’Reilly, former Irish secretary of the ATGWU […]
Posted in Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Jul 25th, 2010 2 Comments »
JIM LARKIN
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[click on image for Pathe News site]
Footage from Pathe News which they have listed on their site as 1920, but is more than likely from the 1913 lockout.
Firstly, Liberty Hall is intact, which means it’s pre-1916; secondly, Jim Larkin is in the footage, which means its pre-1914, as Larkin […]
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 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 […]
