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leitrim / history and heritage Tuesday May 30, 2006 - 13:13 by woman
 9 comments (last - sunday march 30, 2008 - 16:46)
Historic movies about ireland seem to always make it big on the big screen but at what costs? Whose authorisation is required ? What about the famine? The mass grave where 5000 poor of the district were buried near my house is also a story to tell! Why can't a fim maker make a movie about the great famine? So that Irish Americans can see what their forefathers lived through before emigrating to the USA. This is a story that needs to be told! From the fact that the people were to starve, food supplies they needed withdrawn from them, workhouses, emigration aboard coffun ships etc. The world needs to know!!! ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday May 30, 2006 - 04:05 by Geof Bard
6 comments (last - thursday june 01, 2006 - 12:26)
American fiddle player Geof Bard, a generalist known to appear at an occasional Irish sessions on the US west coast, occasionally attacks a guitar, and has been blasting Blair on the airwaves with his fiddle and this adaptation of WIJ, a tune which is occasionally, erroneously known in the states as "Killkenny Mountain". Wildly popular with Americans, the tune lends itself well to satire. Use at will. First publication worldwide. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday May 29, 2006 - 07:30 by alyn ap gruffydd
Veteran English Radical Film Director Ken Loach`s Film "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" gives a new historical interpretation to the Irish Civil War and Engliah Imperialism. Scottish Scriptwriter Paul Laverty is no less radical, this 8` radio interview treats the political messages in the film and offers a critique of modern day Ireland since it became the neo liberal Celtic Tiger. Music by Dead Can`t Dance and Dick Gaughan ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-capitalism Friday May 26, 2006 - 14:48 by we are led by nasty rich snobs who waste our lives
1 comment (last - monday may 29, 2006 - 17:37)
The punk band Zounds sang 'subvert, subvert' about anarchists/working class people infiltrating the middle class domain of work, to change and subvert it. MI5/6/Special branch have been doing the same in reverse for decades, placing operatives within working class communities and trade unions in order to destroy and subvert whole communities and organisations. Many of these operatives like Denis Donaldson etc, have blended into and become established within working class commuities for many decades. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday May 25, 2006 - 14:38 by Liam Mullen
9 comments (last - monday june 15, 2009 - 10:51)
Although FAS JobsIreland have been in the news a lot lately regarding their proposed move under decentralisation, many of their job advertisements in recent months seem designed to promote illegal immigration. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Thursday May 25, 2006 - 14:01 by chekov
In the Sunday Independent of May 21st, Gene Kerrigan pointed out that the leaks of the Tribal Secta reports into the health service, which were reported as front page news by the Sunday Independent on several occasions, were misrepresentations of the whole truth. Unfortunately, the editor seems happy to continue the tradition, as evidenced by the front page of the edition in which Kerrigan’s article appeared. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday May 24, 2006 - 01:50 by jim travers
The Celtic tiger in the Republic of Ireland has shown that Protestants and Catholics on the island of Ireland can work and live in peace and harmony with one another, once the society they live in accommodates that need. See also: Opinion/analysis- Dublin-Miscellaneous.....jim travers ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Wednesday May 24, 2006 - 01:13 by jim travers
1 comment (last - friday may 26, 2006 - 15:55)
Commodity is one of the basic fundamental requirements that enable the capitalist system to operate in a world of varied political, religious and multi-racial societies. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Tuesday May 23, 2006 - 18:16 by Liam Ó Maoláin
12 comments (last - monday november 17, 2008 - 16:43)
A review in Irish of the the Irish media scene. Native Irish speakers should ignore any errors on my part in relation to grammar etc. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday May 23, 2006 - 17:40 by Liam Ó Maoláin
1 comment (last - wednesday may 24, 2006 - 21:24)
The assumptions lying behind “mass communications research” have altered in the light of new evidence thrown up in a report published in 1970, entitled “Demonstrations and Communications.” (Halloran, Elliott and Murdock ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday May 23, 2006 - 16:32 by Liam Mullen
Audiences see TV as a producer of news and entertainment products but in fact its core role is producing ideologies. ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Sunday May 21, 2006 - 01:46 by Hedgehog
18 comments (last - tuesday may 30, 2006 - 16:18)
Daily telegraph chooses an animal rights bashing story for their coveted front page. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday May 20, 2006 - 20:29 by Michelle Clarke
This was a contribution to Indymedia 4th March by Redjade Coming To Grief by Hans Johnson Like the breeze of late winter, a single word, unspoken, has rippled through the recent funerals of several US service members returned from Iraq. Families and military presss officers have different reasons for tight lips on the topic. But Suicide among Iraq soldiers, 29 soldiers by recent count, says volumes about drooping morale and raises further doubts about how accurately the toll on service members is being measured and how much more they will bear' We all are delicate human beings...........bureaucracy can always be sorted out......life cannot be given back. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Friday May 19, 2006 - 08:52 by Ramor
2 comments (last - monday january 25, 2010 - 11:22)
( Note ; with Danish journalist Erik Pedersen I went to Michael’s house in Glasnevin a few months ago to conduct an interview about volunteers of the International Brigades for Danish radio. Despite his advanced years, a sprightly man brimming with wit and stories spoke to us for several hours. Characteristically he didn’t talk much about himself or his own endevours in Spain ( he is reported to have been a brave and fearless machine gunner in the battlefield, according to other sources ), instead concentrating on the politics of the situation and on remembering those who fell. History walks with us, and listening to Mr O Riordan reminisce about the heroic struggle waged against the fascist threat in the 1930’s reveals how many of the issues confronted then remain urgent today. Parts of the interview are unclear, and the brackets are mine, Ramor ) ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 22:08 by David MAnning
2 comments (last - saturday january 05, 2008 - 08:10)
The Illusion of Balance Ah that wistful sense of balance so uncommon in the liberal media. In response to a letter sent to the Irish Times criticising Charles Krauthammer's mis-quotation, among other things, of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's remarks at the "World without Zionism" conference held in Tehran, the Irish Times printed a 'counter balance' of sizeable proportion. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 17:55 by NC
2 comments (last - tuesday august 15, 2006 - 15:20)
The bullying and intimidation of workers in the Social Economy in Ireland has gone unpublisised for far to long. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 14:39 by Geraldine Moorkens Byrne
5 comments (last - friday june 02, 2006 - 22:29)
The NRA throws around groundless allegations: and those who protest find the price of exercising their democratic rights comes very high indeed. ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 13:51 by Dave
1 comment (last - thursday may 18, 2006 - 18:36)
national / history and heritage Monday May 15, 2006 - 17:42 by Scot MacCreamhain
Short commemorative article on the Irishmen of the International Brigades ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday May 13, 2006 - 23:42 by DF
26 comments (last - friday march 20, 2009 - 17:57)
Critics of Hugo Chavez have renewed their charges of authoritarianism against the Venezuelan leader. How well do these claims stand up? ... read full story / add a comment |
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