Comment on Unusual… by Dr. X
Yes, the RDE factor was at work there. I wouldn’t overestimate the progressive nature of Pearse’s views on education. He was a romantic conservative nationalist, and really was off in a little world of...
View ArticleComment on Unusual… by Branno's ultra-left t-shirt
Not being funny, but I presume you’ve read Fitzpatrick and Hart’s books then?
View ArticleComment on Unusual… by Niall Meehan
This would have been my second last paragraph, had it not been cut: “Fitzpatrick’s Magdalen College Cambridge lecture examined the West Cork Methodist community in the early 1920s. Its leading...
View ArticleComment on The secret speech…On the Cult of Personality by Justin
This may be of interest: http://www.erythrospress.com/store/furr.html
View ArticleComment on LookLeft Forum – Realising a Left Alternative – Erik Olin Wright...
Well strong enough to be able to act on them would be what is implied. On any issues I don’t have a view on or enough information about then I will tend not to act (and that can include arguing in...
View ArticleComment on The secret speech…On the Cult of Personality by Dr. X
Grover Furr, Stalinism’s answer to David Irving.
View ArticleComment on Croke Park II: The Return by smiffy
“The trade union leaders are a Dad’s Army facing the SS and they know it.” I’m stealing that.
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Comment on Croke Park II: The Return by Tomboktu
“dipping back into the well for savings” Please, don’t call it “savings”.
View ArticleComment on The secret speech…On the Cult of Personality by doctorfive
http://soundcloud.com/oireachtasretort/big-other
View ArticleComment on Croke Park II: The Return by irishelectionliterature
Agree also as the husband of a teacher. The odd thing was that in working conditions for teachers Croke Park 1 was only now being fully felt. By that they have had time to bed down and become part and...
View ArticleComment on Croke Park II: The Return by Branno's ultra-left t-shirt
You have to remember a lot of the commentary is driven by a resentment of the public service itself, a feeling that people should suffer, life should become more difficult, just because it should…the...
View ArticleComment on Croke Park II: The Return by WorldbyStorm
And that feeling is often dressed up in particularly hypocritical terms, the crocodile tears on the part of employers organisations and others about private sector workers when they don’t intend to do...
View ArticleComment on Bits and pieces… by John Cunningham
Wondering that there doesn’t seem to be any comment on Italian election here. What would be an equivalent outcome in Ireland? Ming Flanagan as leader of the largest party, with at least one...
View ArticleComment on Labour’s new shadow, somewhat to its left… by greengoddess2
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/gilmore-dismisses-real-labour-threat-223793.html
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 27th February 2013 by...
Noonan has announced an end to the ELG scheme to much fanfare and claims that sound not to dissimilar to ‘we have turned a corner’. However, the scheme was due to end in June 2013 so its demise has...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 27th February 2013 by...
“we have lost money” Depends on who the “we” is in that statement, doesn’t it. Those that matter, neither you nor I, are winners as usual.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 27th February 2013 by Jim Monaghan
The Irish sections of UK unions are fairly autonomous. My memory of being a WUI delegate is that the accounts show everything. If you want an end of this then propose in your branch
View ArticleComment on A New Track From the Replacements by anarchaeologist
Hmmm… the Mats were often a hit and miss affair but this is ok. For a cover. By the way I saw a JCB last week with The Beer Mats painted on the bucket. Is there perchance a tribute band out there?
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