Best part of a week working on one article by Connolly, chasing down references and compiling short biographies of the people mentioned in it. The article itself is 873 words long, while the footnotes currently stand at 2,217 - almost three times the length. There is an actual reason and purpose to this: the article … Continue reading “Given away with a pound of tea” – Footnoting Connolly
Soviet Edition of Labour in Ireland, by James Connolly (1969)
Tracked down a pdf of the Soviet edition of Labour in Ireland (the title used is Rabočij Klass v Istorii Irlandii. Otvoevanie Irlandii - "Labour in Irish History. The Re-Conquest of Ireland.") It was published in 1969 by Progress Publishers, with an introduction by Mícheál Ó Ríordáin. The original scan is here. The translation is … Continue reading Soviet Edition of Labour in Ireland, by James Connolly (1969)
Bronterre O’Brien Grave Location
The Irish radical and Chartist, James Bronterre O'Brien, is buried in Abney Park cemetery in London. The grave is not the easiest to find, so below is a map with some photographs. I was able to visit it last week. The cemetery is in Stoke Newington, less than five minutes' walk from Stoke Newington Overground … Continue reading Bronterre O’Brien Grave Location
Money: An Activist’s Guide – Week Five
Slides (with recording to follow) for week five of a five-week radical political economy workshop on money and Ireland, based on my 2018 publication, Money (Sireacht: Longings for Another Ireland). These are held in The Spark, Phibsboro. Money week fiveDownload
Money: An Activist’s Guide – Week Four
Slides for week four of a radical political economy workshop on money and Ireland, based on my 2018 publication, Money (Sireacht: Longings for Another Ireland). These are held in The Spark, Phibsboro. Money Wk4 5.2.26Download
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