Today marks the date in 1992 when the parents of a pregnant 14-year-old took their daughter to England for an abortion. She had been raped by a friend of the family. That same day in the High Court, Mr Justice Declan Costello issued a temporary injunction to prevent the abortion. Only hours after they had [...]

Book Review: Sins of the Father: Tracing the Decisions that Shaped the Irish Economy By Conor McCabe (The History Press Ireland, 2011)
A constant theme of Irish society is the national commentariat’s habit of assuming that anything successful in a green shirt reflects well on all of us. Jack Charlton’s football team embodied this contradiction, the [...]

[This is the proposal for the pilot course as it stands today - hoping to refine and refocus it over the coming weeks, but this is the base of it here.

If the pilot course is successful, and there is sufficient interest within the organised trade union movement to continue with the course, then I'd see [...]

As previously mentioned, Look Left 9 or Vol.2 No.7 is now available in Easons and other outlets both north and south. There is plenty in there for everyone, but I thought as Look Left have published it on their site that I should link to Conor McCabes’ piece Gombeens, Spivs and Bankers. It provides a [...]

History Ireland Hedge School
National Library Kildare Street D.2 Wed. Jan. 11th  2012  7.00 pm
“War of Independence -

Four Glorious Years or Squalid Sectarian Conflict ?”
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Book Review: Britain’s Empire, Richard Gott (Verso 2011)

Hegel’s metaphor about  the awareness that comes only after the event  – ‘The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of dusk’ - might encourage the thought that finally we are able to look back at the British empire and draw some [...]

Last Friday, I heard Joe Jones of the Gypsy Council speak about his organisation’s history beforeDale Farm.  In passing - we weren’t talking about Ireland at all - he mentioned the names Grattan Puxon and Cherry Orchard and, not having any idea what he was referring to, I made a note to Google both. I never [...]

Just to let people know that Tom O’Connor, lecturer in economics and social policy in Cork Institute of Technology reviews Conor’s Sins of the Father in the Irish Examiner today. Here’s an excerpt:
Conor McCabe’s The Sins of the Father is the latest attempt to explain our economic collapse and is by far and away the [...]

A Public Meeting to mark the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Sligo branch of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union (I.T. &.G.W.U.) will take place in the Glasshouse Hotel, Sligo on this Saturday the 17th September at 8.00.p.m.
Speakers at the event, which is being organised by the People First/United left Alliance will include Dr [...]