I haven't blogged much lately because of my travels (I've been at home for one week in the last three months). But alas, reality has set in, the semester will start soon, and I have to get to work. I spent the last week in...
ireland
I always love the recovery of lost films and this story on early footage from Ireland really made me want to see the films. Hopefully I will have that opportunity..
I've written at length about how corporations have unmoored themselves from national law in the world of labor relations and environmental degradation, while those of us fighting this are left.
Dolores O'Riordan, the voice of The Cranberries and one of Ireland's greatest musical exports, tragically passed away under currently unknown circumstances earlier this week. In a 2014 incident with the police that The Guardian calls a "hypomanic episode" behavior she would claim to be the...
In 1994, Irish alternative rock band released their anti-war song "Zombie" as the first single off their new album No Need to Argue. Their video featured lead singer Dolores O'Riordan covered in.
Good job America. The Irish have now passed you in civil rights. Ireland appeared poised on Saturday to become the world’s first nation to approve same-sex marriage by a popular.
Wendy Lyon with an interesting piece about the Irish labor movement explicitly excluding sex workers from its definition of labor. It's hardly surprising, both within the Irish context of discomfort over such matters and within labor writ large excluding those outside of "respectable" forms of...
Erm... awkward... Five thousand Irish soldiers who swapped uniforms to fight for the British against Hitler went on to suffer years of persecution. One of them, 92-year-old Phil Farrington, took part.
And the European Court of Justice delivers! Actually, this is only very modestly good news -- no Roe or Morgentaler -- as Ireland's draconian ban on most abortions will remain.
Ireland has been a teabagger laboratory, going with a program of austerity to deal with a financial crisis. How's that been working out? Ireland’s economy shrank 7.1 percent last year and remains in recession. Signs of the downturn are everywhere. Dublin’s main shopping area is...
I was going to verify that Guinness is even better when tasted in its country of origin, but then remembered where I was and can verify instead that Beamish and.
Tennessee takes a stand against Leprechauns.