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Thursday, Mar 18th 2010

Authors Blogs

Here are the latest posts from some of our authors’ blogs.

RSS Cedar Lounge Revolution

  • Elsewhere today
    HumanRightsInIreland, a blog run by Irish academic lawyers, has a series of posts today on the theme (to my ear, hi falutin) of ‘Human Rights Lexicon’. However, don’t let that put you off. I recommend the post by Illan Rua Wall on the right to housing in a post-crash Ireland. It gives some thoughts that [...]
    Tomboktu
  • Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh…
    Or somesuch given the day that is in it… Celebrate. Or something. It’s a bit problematic, given that it is on a Wednesday, so I wouldn’t be insanely keen to say, have a drink today. That was last night. And there’s work tomorrow. And Friday. So perhaps I won’t really celebrate. Not that I need [...]
    WorldbyStorm
  • Joining the dots…
    It’s funny how off the radar, as it were, some issues can be if you restrict your reading/consumption of the media to certain areas. Socio-economic issues loom large in my life, and so does popular culture, so the issue of Johnny Ronan… indeed Ronan as a personality above and beyond his primary employment, didn’t have [...]
    WorldbyStorm
  • The Cardinal Brady issue…
    Some of us may be a bit puzzled to read a piece by Harry McGee in the Irish Times yesterday that references in some detail the Brendan Smyth controversy as it impacted on the Fianna Fáil/Labour coalition, leading to its eventual collapse. IN OCTOBER 1994, Fianna Fáil and Labour had been in coalition for almost two [...]
    WorldbyStorm
  • Conference: Equality in a time of crisis
    EQUALITY IN A TIME OF CRISIS Registration is now open for an international conference at University College Dublin organised by the UCD Egalitarian World Initiative (EWI). The conference will open on the evening of Wednesday 5th May 2010, and will close at lunchtime on Friday 7th May 2010. In the wake of the recent economic downturn we [...]
    Tomboktu
  • New Politics? New Republic? A new Dawn? We’ll let the electorate (or Fine Gael TDs) be the judge of that…
    There’s no end of interest in the media over the Fine Gael document on political reform. And so far this is being strongly trailed with details spilling out all over. Got to say, I think that may be something of a mistake on the part of FG. By the time the document emerges in full [...]
    WorldbyStorm

RSS Dublin Opinion

  • Edward Hogan, Irish Activist, Rendition Critic Has US Visa Revoked
    This comes via Democracy Now! (headlines clip, 17 March 2010, 12:05mins). “A prominent Irish peace activist says he’s had his US visa revoked without explanation. The activist, Edward Horgan, is the co-founder of ShannonWatch, which has documented the use of Ireland’s Shannon Airport in the US kidnapping practice known as “extraordinary rendition.” Horgan is a former [...]
    Conor McCabe
  • Beyond the Classroom - The Communities -Ep2: Tallaght
    As part of the ongoing relationship with Aontas. It was suggested in mid 2008 that DCTV and the Aontas – Community Education Network would be a good fit to explore a production project. This series, supported by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland sound and vision scheme is the most visible result of that partnership [...]
    Conor McCabe
  • IT’S A SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD
    It’s 5pm and I’m walking down James Street, heading towards DCTV’s warehouse studio where there’s a launch reception for a series of programmes on cycling and the city. I’m hoping to catch the station manager to ask him about the next round of programme funding from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, and to take part [...]
    Conor McCabe
  • I’VE A WEE BOY IN THE HOUSE GOIN’ MAD ABOUT IT..
    Shellshock Rock Pt 1 A chance find on YouTube - appears to have turned up not long after I did this post on Belfast / Norn Iron punk. Somebody FedEx a case of vintage Buckfast to saintly Japanese person heyohkubo3 and put it on DO Tower’s tab please. Links to the other 5 parts of the [...]
    Sean Baite
  • BARRETT, JOYCE AND HOPE
    [ De Jemser that time he didn’t go down too well Upstairs in The International / Photo Ottacaro WEISS pinched from www.istrianet.org ] Conventional as Joyce’s poetry is, we have to at least give the man credit for its musicality. Syd Barrett spotted this and gave us his wonderful version of ‘Golden Hair’ [...]
    Sean Baite
  • DOUQUAN ‘DUKIE’ WEEMS: THE WIRE
    My obsession with this show is reaching Trekkie levels, I know. At the end of episode twelve, season four Dukie is told that he’s moving school and there’s a scene where he’s sitting at the computer and looking around the classroom, knowing that it’s the end of what had become a safe haven in his [...]
    Conor McCabe
  • MICK O’RIORDAN AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR: INTERVIEW c.1993
    [Photo taken from CPI website. Mick O’Riordán is front row, third from the left.] Another tape that was recently passed onto me, this time of an Anna-Livia (now Dublin City FM) radio interview from 1993 with Mick O’Riordan, then general-secretary of the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) and Spanish Civil War veteran, who passed away in [...]
    Conor McCabe

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