Posted in events, Sins of the Father on Jan 29th, 2012 No Comments »
I’m giving a talk this Wednesday (1 February), the venue is the Fresh Claim Cafe, 48 King Street, Belfast.
It starts at 7.30pm and Socialist Democracy are the organizers of the event.
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More details to follow, but it will take place at the Fresh Claim Cafe & Photographic Gallery, 48 King Street, Belfast.
The event is intended not only as an exposé of the abuses of economic power in the South, but to facilitate discussion and an analysis of the present economic reforms in the North, and the […]
Posted in Sins of the Father on Aug 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
It can be downloaded as a kindle at amazon.com.
Price is $11.74 - around €8.
It is also available on amazon.co.uk.
Posted in Sins of the Father on Aug 5th, 2011 3 Comments »
I was out in Coolock last week, talking with the great Mick Fitzgerald on Near FM. The interview is about an hour long, and covers not only the book but also Edenmore and Class in Ireland.
This is taken from the Near FM website:
As the nation slouches towards the centenary of the 1916 Rising, one suspects […]
Posted in Sins of the Father on Jul 21st, 2011 No Comments »
[Dr. Jim Stewart’s article for the July 2008 edition of Tax Justice Focus is an excellent summary of the actual function of the IFSC and its role within the shadow banking system.
Needless to say both the article and Dr. Jim Stewart were all but completely ignored by Ireland’s newspapers and TV stations, who instead […]
Posted in Sins of the Father, Irish journalism, Banks on Jul 21st, 2011 No Comments »
[Interesting to observe the bemused attitude that the Irish Times took towards the Celtic Tiger when the phrase first appeared in Autumn 1994. The paper, quite correctly, saw it as an accounting exercise, nothing more than the shuffling of paper by accountants. It also found the lurid prophecies of the ESRI to be quite […]
Posted in Irish Marxism, Irish property bubble, Sins of the Father, Irish Society, Irish Economy, Irish Working Class, Irish social history, Irish History on Jul 21st, 2011 2 Comments »
Many thanks to Budapestkick for recording Conor’s talk at the Cork launch of Sins of the Father in Solidarity Books, which he sent on to me today. Due to some technical difficulty getting the files online he suggested I host them here. By all accounts it was a great evening, a full house and from […]
Solidarity Books Main Talk: Play Now | Play in Popup Solidarity Books Questions Part 1: Play Now | Play in Popup Solidarity Books Questions Part 2: Play Now | Play in Popup Solidarity Books Questions Part 3: Play Now | Play in PopupPosted in Sins of the Father on Jul 19th, 2011 1 Comment »
For directions, click here.
Posted in Sins of the Father on Jul 18th, 2011 1 Comment »
[In a recent interview with DCTV I said that the American TV drama, The Wire, had a huge influence on the structure and approach I undertook when writing Sins of the Father. I first put up this post on 13 October 2009, and I think already you can see the basic thesis of the book. […]
