It’s been a busy week for Brian Hanley and Scott Millar, authors of Lost Revolution (reviewed here). The book launch was held on Thursday while on Saturday the Desmond Greaves Summer School had a session entitled: “Remembering 1969: memory and history” at which Brian Hanley and Mick Ryan were speaker and chair respectively.

There has been loads interest in Brian Hanley and Scott Miller’s book The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers’ Party here, on Dublin Opinion and on Cedar Lounge Revolution.
So readers who may be around Dublin city centre later on this week might like to go to the launch of the [...]

Yesterday evening, TASC presented their annual lecture in the Royal Irish Academy with two highly noteworthy speakers, economist James K. Galbraith, Professor in Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs in the University of Texas, Austin and Professor Maria Rodrigues of the Institute of European Studies, Brussels Free University - [...]

Paul Ginsborg is Professor of Contemporary European History, University of Florence and a frequent public commentator on politics and life in Italy. His books include A History of Contemporary Italy, Society and Politics 1943 - 1988 , Italy and Its Discontents: Family, Civil Society and the State , 1980-2000, and the bestselling biography Berlusconi: Television, [...]

Patrick Cockburn is the Baghdad correspondent of the Independent and the author of The Occupation:  War, resistance and daily life in Iraq and Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival and the struggle for Iraq. He spoke to Daniel Finn of Irish Left Review about the latest developments in Iraq.
How do you interpret the latest election [...]

Gilbert Achcar lived in Lebanon for many years. He is now Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. He is the author of many books analysing politics and society in the Middle East from a Left perspective, including The Clash of Barbarisms, Eastern Cauldron, The 33-Day War and Perilous Power [...]

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 [...]

For ILR’s second podcast, we interviewed INTO General Secretary John Carr. The interview focused initially on the recent cuts in the education as announced in Budget 2009 and how the INTO and other unions should react to such cuts. Mr. Carr puts repeated emphasis on the point that the world of deregulation and neo-liberal economics [...]

For ILR’s first podcast, we interviewed the leading progressive criminologist Dr. Paul O’Mahony. The interview covered a range of topics including the way in which the popular media shapes public perceptions of - and political reactions to - crime, and the effectiveness (or otherwise) of legislation introduced in the wake of journalist Veronica Guerin’s murder [...]