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Lost & Early Writings James Connolly - https://bit.ly/4h7I2r5 Money (UCC Press) - https://www.corkuniversitypress.com/9781782052821/money/ Sins of the Father - https://thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/sins-of-the-father/
‘The Economic Situation in Ireland’ by Séan Murray from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 11 No. 40. July 30, 1931.
Newly ‘independent’ Ireland was a country that had also seen a counter-revolution politically...
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Photograph of the Obelisk on James st. Dublin with a quote from James Connolly: "To permanently remedy the evils of city life the citizens must own their city." A black and white image of Connolly overlooks the obelisk.
Really taken with the sundial fountain on James St, which was a meeting place for radicals in the city for decades, including Connolly and Larkin. Playing around with ways to incorporate it into radical education today.
David Byrne on the Jonathan Ross Show thinking how did i get here?
Cover of David Harvey's "The Story of Capital."
Arrived today and, dear reader, it uses footnotes. 💘
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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- AI training isn’t ‘learning’ and shouldn’t be treated as such
The House of Lords has been absolutely consistent on this, and they are totally right. Will the government listen?
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The Housing Minister & council officials are not just "off to the Riviera," they're off to the MIPIM - a global real estate event.
Less than a week after the lifting of the rent caps, they are off to tell the vulture funds that it's time to "drill baby drill" in Ireland's rental market.
A new film documents Dubliners’ resistance to subordination of social life to profit. “The market is a monster,” says filmmaker James Redmond. “It turns living spaces into dead space.”
‘Irish Fighters in Spain Honor James Connolly’ from The Daily Worker. Vol. 14 No. 156. July 1, 1937.
Held under fire, a ceremony commemorating the 21st anniversary of Connolly’s execution with comrades from all over the world participating.
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Something I wrote on the impact of AI and graduate jobs in what is, by the government’s own admission, one of the most exposed labour markets in the developed world.
I review the 50th edition of Saothar in History Ireland, and so get to respond to Shay Cody's article that James Connolly served in India and Egypt and that I may be "wrong" in my analysis and research. This is me giving him the gentlest of taps; I really could have gone to town on it.
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Fergal Finnegan reviews "It's Not Where You Live, It's How You Live: Class and Gender Struggles in a Dublin Estate", edited by John Bissett, in our latest issue buff.ly/zCRdEhj #CDJ #BookReviews
Poster for a socialist meeting in Dublin, 1887
Problems have solutions. Contradictions do not. They are permanent points of tension that can only be managed within the system in which they are embedded. They only go away when the system as a whole disappears.
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#OnThisDay in London's insurrectionary history: Colonel Despard executed for planning revolution, 1803.
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And Connolly citing Mark Twain is always good to see. It's just so nice to be finally on top of the publishing schedule so I can chase up little nuggets like these.
Probably not, but it's definitely something I'd love to know, so I spent about an hour this morning chasing up the official weather stats and reports for August 1899.
Sometimes you footnote just for yourself. Does the average reader really need to know the context for Connolly's comment on the weather?
It means I can really delve into his writing - which corresponds with the period covered by Joyce in Dubliners, Portrait, and Ulysses.
Anyways, the quote here is from an article on imperialist war and capitalism. That's the thing about Connolly, he's so out of date. An anachronism really...
On top of this I have found a number of lost letters and articles, all of which will be going in.
but it's the footnoting that I'm enjoying the most - mainly because I have the breathing space to do one article a day as this volume isn't until next year.
It's also one of the most intense periods in terms of his research, analysis and activism - and remains one of the most neglected.
For example, 49 articles from this period are currently on the Marxist Internet Archive Connolly page - there are at least 100 articles alone in existence.
Now that vol. II is with @iskrabooks.bsky.social for publication I feel like I'm finally catching up with the schedule and getting on top of things.
Really enjoying editing the next collection - vol. III (1898-1899) - which contains the first two years of his journalism in Ireland.
It means I can really delve into his writing - which corresponds with the period covered by Joyce in Dubliners, Portrait, and Ulysses.
Anyways, the quote is from an article on imperialist war and capitalism. That's the thing about Connolly, he's so out of date. An anachronism really
On top of this I have found a number of lost letters and articles, all of which will be going in.
but it's the footnoting that I'm enjoying the most - mainly because I have the breathing space to do one article a day as this volume isn't until next year.
It's also one of the most intense periods in terms of his research, analysis and activism - and remains one of the most neglected.
For example, 49 articles from this period are currently on the Marxist Internet Archive Connolly page - there are at least 100 articles alone in existence.
Ad for Pearse and Sons above an ad for Connolly's pamphlet, Erin's Hope. United Irishman, 31 May 1902.
‘The Civil War in Ireland’ by Roderick Connolly from Bulletin of the IV Congress. No. 26. December 6, 1922.
James Connolly's son speaks to the Communist International on the Irish Civil War.
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#OnThisDay in London socialist history: Irish-born trade unionist Jim Connell, writer of the song ‘The Red Flag’, buried, Golders Green, 1929
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