Conor McCabe

Those Georgian lexicographers understood the beauty of insults. Bring back fopdoddle and insignificant wretch; sturdy butchers who break your noddle; and let not the sound of shallow foppery enter your sober house.

James Connolly in Roswell, New Mexico, 1 December 1909. Apart from the cheesy sci-fi crossover, I love this as they highlight his natural humour - something that leaps from the pages of his writings when read in the original.

**Capitalism in a rubber hotdog costume**

"We're all trying to find the guy who did this."

Just coming out of a particularly torpid and thought-fatigued time, couldn't get anything written over the past month. A couple of weeks back I built a writing table as a way of jolting the brain back into place & I think it worked. Got an article & book proposal finished this week. Over. The. Moon

Despite overcrowding, prison officials told to exclude immigration detainees from temporary release The Irish Prison Service had asked the government to revisit the policy, given more serious high-risk offenders had to be released early to make the space.

This is a tremendous piece on one of the most concerning aspects of the current Irish justice minister’s policy of placating racists. Via @shamimmalekmian.bsky.social of course
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all welcome :-)

The mainstream journalists and academics back then just ate up his stuff - he framed it as insider knowledge but it was nothing of the sort. A nasty piece of work.

I used to write for blog called Dublin Opinion - long gone now - but even in 2012 we had his number. Irish journalists of course absolutely loved him - web.archive.org/web/20120126...

Filling out a funding application at the mo and there's a section on why I should get it - and I genuinely want to just write this I mean it's such a stupid fucking question. Read the application and make up your own mind you lazy f***. Ugh! 🙄

Almost half NI race rioters reported for domestic abuse The figures for Northern Ireland – 48% - were higher than the UK average (41%).

There were 48 people arrested in relation to the disorder, of which 23 had been reported for domestic abuse. The figures for Northern Ireland – 48% - were higher than the UK average (41%). www.thedetail.tv/articles/alm...

Ah cheers! Thanks!

We can place James Connolly in Roswell, New Mexico, on the night of 1 December 1909 and surely that's an X-Files two-parter right there

Green book cover with multi-coloured letters of "Rethinking Feminism in Ireland" by Camilla Fitzsimons

Talking about feminism, radicalism and neoliberalism with @camillafitz.bsky.social

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Unless you're a Palestinian

And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass

Great to see DCC capturing the historical architecture of Temple Bar with some concrete slabs it picked up at B&Q. Gives you that warm fuzzy feeling inside

Iskra Books editorial team were in town yesterday so I brought them on a James Connolly walking tour of the city. Lovely to meet them all, and it gave me the added spur to get volume II finished! Just the intro to go.

Memorial to "cattle on the hoof" in the IFSC - no context given, no deeper analysis, just "ah yeah they used to march the Cattle from Smithfield..."

I really want to do a talk/lecture here now, sure they've handed me the slides, etched in faux brass...

😖Department of Housing refusing to release the submissions made by government departments and utilities to the idea of planning exemptions for backyard cabins and so on. It would be against the public interest, don't you know.

And David Icke in Oxfam. Dublin is really pulling out all the stops today....

Radical? A christian conservative ethno-nationalist - anti-abortion, anti-feminist, whites-only European corporatist fascist. Basically Gript with a pipe.

Feargus O'Connor, a leading Chartist member of the London Working Men's Association and founder of the Northern Star newspaper, was born in Ireland #OTD 1796.

Elected MP for Nottingham in 1847, O'Connor helped to organise the large Chartist meeting on Kennington Common in 1848.

I think everybody would agree that not having enough electricity for homes is a small price to pay in order to fill the place with data centers that employ nobody

177. Irish Radical History Workshop pt. 4 The Week at Work · Episode

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Irish Radical History – no. 4 Today’s recording is the final part of a three week session on Irish radical and working class history that was held in the Spark in Phibsboro in April 2025. Its main theme today is to delve into t…

Apologies again for the delay, final recording from the workshops on Irish radical history, held in the Spark in Phibsboro in April - conor-mccabe.com/2025/07/13/i...

Interesting map shared by Dublin City Archives showing buildings damaged/destroyed in 1916. No. 72 survived, and based on its location, the Evening Telegraph was where Govinda's Restaurant is today, and not outside Eason's where the Joyce trail plaque was placed.

G'wan Catherine

Dante to Virgil at the first circle of Hell, the suffering of the virtuous, in Michael Palma's 2002 translation of Inferno.

From Paul Delany's 1972 article on Dubliners. The same can be said, almost word-for-word, about Connolly's writings on Dublin during the same period - which makes a lack of a comparative study all the more remarkable

176. Irish Radical History Workshop pt. 3 The Week at Work · Episode

Apologies for the delay in this one - week three of Irish radical and working class history, held in the Spark, Phibsboro, in April - open.spotify.com/episode/5cfp...