Conor’s interview with DCTV about his book Sins of the Father: Tracing the Decisions that Shaped the Irish Economy. Just to remind people that the book launch is this Thursday, 30th of June 5.30 to 7pm, Connolly Books, Essex St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
Speakers include Michael Taft, Scott Millar and Mick O’Reilly. All Welcome. [...]

On January 10th this year Near FM’s Under the Sun program broadcast an interview with Peter Hallward, the author of Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment to coincide with the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake which is estimated to have affected three million people, killing 316,000 and leaving 300,000 injured [...]

This is an interview published in El Público today with Luis García Montero and Joaquín Sabinaby that Hugh Green translated this morning and posted on his own blog. I’m cross-posting the full post with the interview and an introduction with his permission.
While we might get enthralled by cement mixers at the expense of the [...]

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 [...]