With Syriza still ahead in the most recent polls prior to next month’s 2nd Parlimentary election since May, its timely to provide here a list of what they demand for Greece if they are able…
Film
Love in “The City of the Dead”
David Lynch is an Irish journalist working in Cairo. His reports are regularly published in the Sunday Business Post. This was taken from this blog Arab Spring in My Step. Valentine’s Day is not so…
“can, Spring be far behind?”
Book Review: ‘On the State of Egypt- The Issues that Caused the Revolution‘, Alaa Al Aswany (AUB Press 2011) David Lynch is currently based in Cairo reporting on post-Mubarak Egypt and the Arab Spring. He…
Occupy Dublin: Take back the world they have stolen from us
Speech given after the October 15th march at Occupy Dublin, outside the Central Bank of Ireland, Dame Street When you have lived a long life, you will find that the years blur together, but some…
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class – Part One
This is the first of a three part analysis of Owen Jones’ book Chavs. The second part will be published tomorrow, with the concluding part appearing on Thursday. All three can be read here. Book…
The Soft Underbelly of Dave Lordan
The Soft Underbelly of homo lordaniensis-being sort of a review, but more an anatomy I’d like to think, of Invitation to a Sacrifice (Knockeven: Salmon, 2010) pbk, 124pp Most English-language poetry suffers from its practitioners’…
Book Review: Riotous Assemblies: Rebels, Riots and Revolts in Ireland
Book Review: Riotous Assemblies: Rebels, Riots and Revolts in Ireland, Edited by William Sheehan & Maura Cronin, Mercier 2011 Riots get a bad press. After the rubble is removed, rioters tend not to have a…
Regeneration is Ongoing
The death of Rachel Peavoy in Shangan Flats, Dublin, on the night of January 10th 2011, a bitterly cold night in the coldest winter in living memory, stands in so many ways as a metaphor…
The Norwegian Oil Experience: A toolbox for managing resources
The following preface and introduction are taken from a report, The Norwegian Oil Experience: A toolbox for managing resources?, which is being published in English here for the first time. Translator’s Preface The discovery of…
Burning the Economy, Not the Bondholders
“Of course we are under tremendous pressure on the financial arrangements (of the EU-IMF deal) but getting the economy going again, returning to growth will make that affordable,” “If our economy goes well, if we…
Libya and the Left
Until recently, I never focused much on Libya. As part of the 1960s new left, I cheered the green revolution of 1969, as part of a wave of national liberation movements sweeping the world. Gaddafi…
They make a desert and they call it peace
This article was first published in #CrisisJam on politico.ie. In December 2010, Afri published a report entitled ‘The IMF and Ireland: what we can learn from the Global South’. We looked at the record of…
The IMF (And the EU) In Ireland: Denying Democracy, Defending the Rich
This is an extract from a just published paper prepared for Action from Ireland (Afri), December 2010. Click the link to access the full paper (PDF): The IMF and Ireland: What We Can Learn From…
France: Not Victorious, but not Defeated
It is now possible to begin to draw a tentative balance sheet of the vast movement against the reform (or more exactly, counter-reform) of the pension system that we have seen in France over the…
Sins of the Father
Dublin Opinion
- 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
- The Indo: Think I Know The Choice I’d Make.. May 9, 2013[…]Conor McCabe
- Alan Ahearne, Johnny Boy May 6, 2013Alan Ahearne, Central Bank of Ireland & NUIG, writing in 2006 that Ireland’s property bubble was caused by condoms. […]Conor McCabe
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