BOOK LAUNCH
The Provisional IRA - From Insurrection to Parliament:
by Tommy Mc Kearney
Published by: Pluto Press London
Wednesday 10th August
5-30 - 6-30pm
Connolly Books
43 East Essex St,
Temple Bar,
Dublin 2:
All welcome

For over two centuries, the patronage of primary education schools in Ireland has been almost exclusively the sole preserve of the Christian churches. While this may have been justified in the past as merely representative of the religious beliefs of the Irish population, this argument no longer holds true. Irish society has undergone momentous changes, [...]

Book Review:Diary of an Escape - Antonio Negri (Polity Press, 2010)

“The recent days have shown the enormous gap that exists between our capacity to produce truth and the court’s inert expression of its unbelievable desire to repress it.”
Antonio Negri.
A discussion of truth in any situation may well be defined as a paradox. Truth - [...]

Short clip from an interview I recorded with Sean Garland as part of the Irish Left Oral History Archive.
Sean is currently fighting extradition to the United States. The following is taken from a letter of support which is signed by Jack O’Connor, General President, SIPTU; Jimmy Kelly, Regional Secretary, UNITE; and Eamon Devoy, General [...]

The news reports in Friday’s papers, if any, on the launch on Thursday of the Report of the Gender Recognition Advisory Group will certainly contain the news that the law will be changed to allow transgendered people have their new gender legally recognised in Ireland. They might also contain information on concerns that have been [...]

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’ besetting niceness and an excess of formula.  A poet writes a book in which persons, stories and places are sculpted into illustrations [...]

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 press office established to spin their take on events. But it’s not principally this lack of media savvy that means their narrative [...]

Anyone trying to make sense of Ireland’s crisis, and looking for an alternative to the right-wing consensus shared by the three major parties and virtually the entire print media, is most likely to find their starting-point in the writings of Fintan O’Toole. O’Toole’s columns in the Irish Times, his regular appearance on radio and TV, [...]

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 for Ireland itself. She died, according to the pathologist, of hypothermia. There is no avoiding that judgement. According to her [...]

On Easter Monday, the Irish peace, justice and human rights advocacy group Afri launched a satirical version of the 1916 Proclamation at Arbour Hill cemetery, where the leaders of the Easter Rising are buried.