Looking Left 3: Gralton and Z Magazine
This is the third programme in the series, and hosted by Donagh of Dublin Opinion and Irish Left Review.
There were ten issues of Gralton published from 1982-83, and three issues of Z Magazine, all in 1989.
About Conor McCabe
Articles by Conor McCabe
THE KENNY REPORT, 1974
The Kenny Report, the official title of which is “COMMITTEE ON THE PRICE OF BUILDING LAND, REPORT TO THE MINISTER FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT ROBERT MOLLOY, CHAIRMAN MR. JUSTICE J. KENNY (DUBLIN,1974), was begun in 1971 and finally published in 1974. Its findings have never been implemented.
Its recommendations formed part of the Green Party’s general election [...]
DCTV and Looking Left No.2: The Ripening of Time
This is the second progamme in the four-part series, Looking Left, which is being made for DCTV (The first in the series, on The Irish People is here). The topic on this occasion is The Ripening of Time, the political journal of the Ripening of Time Collective, thirteen issues of which were published between 1976 [...]
Our Shadow In The Sunlight Seems To Us To Move
…and this brings me to the third point which goes to the root of the whole matter: that the relation to capital and labour, employer and employed, should not be one of hostility and suspicion and self-seeking, but one of sympathy and co-operation, each caring for the interests of the other as if they were [...]
ILR Podcast: interview with Michael Taft, “Towards a New Economic Narrative”
Following on from the publication of “Towards a New Economic Narrative“, we interviewed Michael Taft about his ideas for the Irish economy. We started off by asking Michael what was actually wrong with the Irish economy, and what was his strategy for getting the economy working in the short-term, with plans for growth in the [...]
Class and Ireland: Part 3 - Records of a Floating Life
Night is gone, a dawn
comes up in birds and sounds of the city.
There will be light
to live by, things
to see: my eyes will lift
to where the sun in vermilion sits,
and I will love thee and have pity. (Michael Hartnett)
I’m sitting on the small fenced stone wall that surrounds the central bank on Dame Street, [...]
Class and Ireland: Part 2
I’m standing at the corner of Cathal Brugha Street and Thomas Lane, waiting for my friend Lida to arrive. She’s starting up her own business soon, and wants me to write a blurb for the website. The buses are running a bit late but she gets here around 6.30pm and so we head off for [...]
Class and Ireland: Part 1
It is not the poverty
Of soil in Leitrim that makes me raise my hat
To fools with fifty pounds in a paper bank” (Lough Derg, Kavanagh)
A friend of mine is fond of saying, “he who tires of Bray, tires of life”. And there’s more than a line of truth in that one. As for myself, today [...]
Census 1991: 15 Years On
…thus the main factors driving this strong growth performance relate to the consolidation of a strong competitive position in an increasingly global international market augmented by a sizeable expansion in the supply of labour. Furthermore, the latter had been rendered significally more effective by sustained investment in education and training over a long period, especially [...]
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 the margins. The past fifteen years, in their eyes, has seen an expansion of that middle class, as well [...]
