A quick word on the Oscars, if only because ignoring them in the week of this site’s inauguration would be just a little too perverse. I didn’t deign to actually watch the ceremony – the…
Monthly Archives For February 2008
Either Rocking the Cradle or the System; Women in Irish Politics
It is a sad fact of reality that women, despite making up 51% of the population, only hold less than 13% of seats in the Dáil, leaving Ireland ranking 59th out of 120 nations examined…
The Irish Left Review is Launched
With a certain trembling of my typing hands I write that The Irish Left Review has just been launched. It is a new online political magazine which will discuss how a broad left can work…
The Third Way Arrives in Montreuil
Every so often last year I would take the Metro line 9 out to its terminus in Montreuil – a suburb just east of the confines of Paris – to teach, at the town hall,…
Michael Zweig, Class, Consumerism and Ireland
To most Irish political and media commentators, the Republic is a capitalist economy without a capitalist class structure. They argue that its citizens are mostly middle class, with a working class rump that exists on…
New Communities, New Opportunities: Looking Forward to the 2009 Local Elections
“We sought workers, and in their stead came people”. That remark – now absorbed into German political discourse – is attributed to former German President Gustav Heinemann in the 1960s, speaking at a time when…
Working Together or Failing Apart: The Irish Left…
It’s hardly a radical proposition that the Irish Left is a curious beast. It is small, gaining perhaps at best twenty five per cent of the national vote at elections. It is scattered, with leftist…
Sins of the Father
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