This article is based on a contribution to a seminar held at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities last Friday called The Rise of the Indignant: Spain, Greece, Europe. Audio from the event is available…
Posts By Illan Rua Wall
Fine Gael – The Videogame
I have been playing Fine Gael’s videogame entitled ‘Go Ireland – The Videogame‘, and I think that we can glean an awful lot about the party from it. Let me, really briefly, explain some of…
At the Blunt Edge of a Cosh: Police Violence & The Student Protests
The images of the Gardai’s horse charge or their over-zealous use of the baton (knocking a young woman out cold and bloodying the faces of others), being used on peaceful student demonstrations has a chilling…
Homeless Election Candidates, Dirty Tricks & Rupture in American Politics?
The question of populism and radical change has re-emerged in American politics, first with Obama and now with the tea party movement. However, it was another story that recently caught my eye. The New York…
Retreating the Political in Irish Human Rights: Donncha O’Connell’s ‘Inaugural Editorial’ in the Irish Human Rights Law Review
In his insightful ‘Inaugural Editorial’ for the Irish Human Rights Law Review, Donncha O’Connell briefly addresses the lack of enthusiasm in Ireland for a political approach to human rights (rather than juridical). There is much…
Radical Social Responses to the Right to Housing
Ireland is in the middle of a catastrophized recession. This will come as no surprise to anyone in Ireland, though perhaps it is not known as well internationally as one might think. One of the…
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- HIPSTER IFSC May 22, 2013[…]Conor McCabe
- In God’s Country May 12, 2013Working on the last few pages of a chapter for a book edited by Colin Coulter and Angela Nagle. I’ve just been rigid with anger over the last couple of weeks - more than usual - and I think the process of writing this chapter is the reason why. This little paragraph sums it up […]Conor McCabe
- Fishy Talks Galway, 13 May 2013 May 12, 2013Speaking tomorrow in Galway before Donal O’Kelly’s performance of Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son. The title of the talk is: All the Devils are Here - A Short History of the Irish Entrepreneur. All welcome. […]Conor McCabe
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