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YouTube video by Scamp Media TRAILER: DISPLACE: THE BATTLE FOR DUBLIN

Filmed over four years across kitchen tables, protests and public meetings, this documentary follows a city fighting for itself as a broken property market chews up its citizens for profit. Rooted in Dublin, it reveals global forces reshaping cities, where homes are assets and people are obstacles.

Afternoon. Added a few issues of Graphic to the archive. A very groovy mag, out of Dublin (I think) in the late 80s early 90s. Am missing a few issues, (3, 5 9, 10, not certain there were any more issues after 11) if anyone has them. See them at oldzinescene.com for free!

Call for Papers: Representing the Global Irish Working Class The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies is a teaching-and-research institute dedicated to the study and understanding of Irish culture—in Ireland and around the world.

CFP: Representing the Global Irish Working Class: National and International Contexts and Dialogues (University of Galway, 11-12 June 2026)
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The Harms Race When representatives from Google, Meta and TikTok appeared in front of Irish legislators last Wednesday to discuss the (self) regulation of their platforms, it was the no-show by bad boys X that stole...

Some notes on last week's Media Committee engagement with Big Tech bunnies-on-trampolines.ghost.io/the-harms-ra...

We're reached the "quoting Lenin in the Irish Farmers Monthly" stage of consciousness-raising✊

‘Thomas J. O’Flaherty Dead’ from New Militant. Vol. 2 No. 22. June 6, 1936. Founding U.S. Communist, a prolific and accomplished writer, T.J. O’Flaherty, brother to Liam O’Flaherty, was from the Aran Isles and spent much of his political life as editor of the Irish People,…

'Thomas J. O’Flaherty Dead' from New Militant. Vol. 2 No. 22. June 6, 1936.

Founding U.S. Communist, a prolific and accomplished writer, T.J. O’Flaherty, brother to Liam O’Flaherty, was from the Aran Isles.
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Today in London’s radical history, 1839: the Chartist Convention opens On February 4, 1839, fifty-three delegates to the General Convention of the Industrious Classes met at the British Coffee House (also known as the Brittannia Coffee House), Cockspur Street, Charing…

#OnThisDay in London's radical history, 1839: The Chartist Convention, a protoparliament
of the people, of sorts, moves to Bolt Court, Fleet Street
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Today in London’s radical history, 1839: the Chartist Convention opens On February 4, 1839, fifty-three delegates to the General Convention of the Industrious Classes met at the British Coffee House (also known as the Brittannia Coffee House), Cockspur Street, Charing…

#OnThisDay in London's radical history, 1839: the Chartist Convention opens
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Interesting sketch in the Capuchin Annual 1942, claiming to show the spot where Thomas MacDonagh surrendered to General Lowe in 1916. Bride street has been widened in the interim, the spot today on google maps conveniently marked by a pigeon.

A decent piece on far right links in Ireland with Australian neo nazis

Full reference: Edward McNally, "The Irish Idea: James Connolly's Political Thought," Modern Intellectual History (2024), 21, 850-873.

It's brilliant to read an analysis that 1) actually takes him seriously as an intellectual and theoretican and 2) actually uses the original articles and not the cut and paste hackjobs on the Internet.

Hands down one of the best pieces on James Connolly's thought I have ever read. Didn't get to properly engage with it for the next volume (due out this year) but ill be drawing upon it for vol III (Connolly's writings 1898-1899).

Untangling ‘identity’ and ‘identity politics’: an interview with Marie Moran

Niamh McCrea discusses "Identity and Capitalism" (2015) with Marie Moran in our January issue, and her subsequent research, which seeks to productively intervene in what Moran terms the ‘radical confusion’ within contemporary debates on identity politics across academia, activism and popular culture

There might be good reasons for Britain to build data centres. Job creation isn’t one of them Estimate*estimate

Good piece on the generally very ropey “job creation” figures when it comes to data centres.

‘Heroic Ireland’ by Cyril V. Briggs from The Crusader (African Blood Brotherhood). Vol. 3 No. 6. February, 1921. Released republican hunger strikers, 1920. The A.B.B.’s Cyril Briggs praises and finds inspiration in ‘little’ Ireland’s war of liberation against Britain’s empire. &#…

'Heroic Ireland' by Cyril V. Briggs from The Crusader (African Blood Brotherhood). Vol. 3 No. 6. February, 1921.

The A.B.B.’s Cyril Briggs praises and finds inspiration in ‘little’ Ireland’s war of liberation against Britain’s empire.
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#C19th #Chartism
If you’ve ever seen the portrait of William Cuffay sketched by a fellow prisoner in Newgate Gaol, you may wonder what became of the Irish Confederate who drew it. William Paul Dowling’s life story is now on Chartist Ancestors.
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Today in London’s rebel past: king Charles sentenced to death, 1649 “This court is in judgment and conscience satisfied that he (the said Charles Stuart) is guilty of levying war against the said Parliament and people… he hath been and is guilty of the wicked desig…

#OnThisDay in royal history: king Charles I sentenced to death, 1649, for making war on Parliament and the people
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Cheann Compairle welcoming Clontarf Tidy Towns to the Dáil public chamber

Even Dáil business stops when the Tidy Towns Committee shows up...

In the Worldwide Family of Militant Women - Arlene Eisen Arlene Eisen's memoir charts a personal and radical journey of resistance to empire, alongside a global community of women.

Release Day!

In the Worldwide Family of Militant Women - Arlene Eisen
@Arlene519

A riveting memoir/social history of struggle over turbulent decades, with lessons for today’s liberation movements.

Iskra Books invites you to join The Worldwide Family of Militant Women!

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City council giving land hand over fist to private developers and corporate funds and then turning round to stretched schools saying "come on lads pull your weight."

Cover image of the Clontarf atlas by Colm Lennon. Turquoise map outline

Cover image of the Rathmines atlas by Seamas O Maitiu. Yellow map outline

Do you like maps? Have you an interest in suburban history?

We are excited to share that for the first time, the atlases of Clontarf and Rathmines are now fully and freely available to download. Originally published by @ria.ie with @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social

Read more: www.ria.ie/2026/01/09/i...

Doesn't seem to be working, Feargal.

Dublin data centre uses as much power as 200,000 homes Capacity of Castlebaggot substation ‘completely consumed’ by local data centres

Infrastructure for what kind of development?

A single DC in West Dublin (employing a handful of people) uses 10x the energy of a nearby pharmaceutical plant that employs 2000 people, and enough energy for 200,000 homes.

Great work from @lnbdublin.bsky.social

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Migration: A Critical Introduction <p><B>A CRITICAL, NUANCED, AND INTERDISCIPLINARY INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOGRAPHIES OF MIGRATION</B> <p><i>Migration: A Critical Introduction</i> offers a fresh and accessible framework for understandin...

Our book is out in paperback shortly, and the publishers have made Ch 1 available. Have a read. www.wiley.com/en-gb/Migrat...

Oh wow! Thanks! Whose initials do you know?

Graffiti in Dublin in support of Sean Binder who was being prosecuted for his humanitarian work in Greece

I was so glad to see Sean Binder acquitted in Greece on Thursday. There was almost nothing in the papers here about him though. Maybe at the weekend, I thought. But no. All we got was profiles about Ryan Tubridy

Latest Arrivals Latest Arrivals &amp; Restocked Ireland's Art Bookshop

Happy to say that you can buy greeting cards with my images from The Library Project in the shop in Temple Bar or online at the link below!

I’m really thrilled!

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One week today!



Our first book of the year

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In the Worldwide Family of Militant Women by Arlene Eisen.

Free PDF, and print edition available Jan 23!



The book can be preordered here - www.iskrabooks.org/worldwide-family

Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future Torkil Lauesen's sweeping and authoritative study of Arghiri Emmanuel’s theory of unequal exchange, tracing its origins, evolution, and contemporary relevance.

Link to FREE pdf, and print editions of the book - iskrabooks.org/ue-past-pres...

Conference Details: unequalexchange.org/2025/08/25/a...