James Connolly's business card, 1898.

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Two days chasing a reference Connolly made to an eaterie on Church Street known locally as Stickfoots. A fascinating rabbit hole into the doss houses of Dublin at the turn of the 20th century. Also, the reference to the hot wall is not to a bakery in Ringsend as Nevin suggests...

Tomorrow marks 10 years since the greatest piece of art of our generation

Rory Hearne had me on his podcast there recently, chatting about FDI, housing and solutions - open.spotify.com/episode/0ooi...

It's the time of year when people are putting out lists of best books of the year. So why not tell an author you've loved their book this year? Because not being on those lists makes many authors sad. You can make them happy!

Server farms accounted for just under 7000 GWh on 2024, over one fifth of total energy consumption. Burn. The. Servers.

Big shout out to UCD Campus Bookshop for this very fine display of all our lead titles and lots of backlist gems. Titles also available at their sister shops Maynooth campus bookshop and Kilmainham Goal bookshop. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL 📚👏🎄❄️ #supporttheindies #irishbookshops #irishpublishing

The 3% were AI-generated

Our revenge will be the laughter of our adult children hearing that the Brits have asked McWilliams how to fix a housing crisis.

I wanted to highlight this for my trans siblings, the social media and the media in general amplify all the worst anti trans voices, the general public are much more supportive of us than we realise, Yes this is dropping compared to 10 years ago but it's not as bad as we ourselves fear.

Previously unknown (and partially damaged) letter by James Connolly, written in 1896. I rediscovered it earlier this year in the National Library, unsigned but in his highly distinctive handwriting. It'll be published in the next volume of his writings, which will be out next year.

Last of the corrections for vol. II of Connolly's writings, The Complete Shorter Works. Got the file back from the editor last week and working through the formatting continuity for the footnotes (Chicago). I dont know what release slot I'll get next year but hoping for late spring/early summer.

Less than 3% of land in Ireland is built upon - and that includes all housing, premises, roads, airports, railways and motorways. It supports 5 million people. Meanwhile around 62% of all land is given over to supporting 12 million livestock. If "Ireland is full" it's of cattle not people...

Alright that's it! I'm doing it! I'm doing the James Connolly totes! Gets yours here: selkiesstudio.com/shop/connolly-tote

Well. I guess my musical age is fuck you Spotify

🚨Release Day!🚨 📕Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future-Torkil Lauesen. 📖A sweeping and authoritative study of Arghiri Emmanuel’s theory of unequal exchange, tracing its origins, evolution, and contemporary relevance. 🔗FREE PDF, and print editions available: iskrabooks.org/ue-past-pres...

Love the zine aesthetic of the Irish Land Commission's annual reports in the 1980s.

“Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Meta recently released a paper suggesting that large language models (LLMs) similar to those that power ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence structure over meaning when answering questions.” i keep telling students ChatGPT writes word salad.

Bobby Sands famously harassed his boss at a work event then refused to leave his place of employment after being suspended for his conduct

All the latest from the hugely prolific Iskra Books. Looking forward to getting stuck into these, especially Yanis Iqbal's The Sword and the Neck.

The death has been announced of the #Galway activist Margaretta D'Arcy at the age of 91. Margaretta set up a #pirate #radio station Women's Scéal Radio in 1987, which became Radio Pirate Woman in 1989. Listen here to our interview with Margaretta in 2020. pirate.ie/archive/inte...

Found this today in a box of government reports in TCD.

Flowers for Wolfe Tone in Collins Barracks

I was asked at the money political economy workshop on Thursday had I read David McWilliams' book on Money - they were just wondering what my thoughts on it would be. I hadn't but I said that I'd go through it for next week.

Book Launch for 'From The Bog To The Cloud' is in Connolly Books on Wednesday, November 26th. Pat and I will be in conversation with Conor McCabe and Eugenia Siapera. Should be good! www.connollybooks.org/product/from...

🚨Our newest release!🚨 📙 'Phenomenology of the Capitalist Eternisation' by João Romeiro Hermeto. ⏲️A critique of capitalism’s “perpetual present,” exposing how the system reproduces itself. 🔗FREE PDF, and print edition, available at: iskrabooks.org/capitalist-e...

Oh wow, watching @virginmedianews.bsky.social & the auto generated subtitles for the Presidential oath as Gaeilge are *not good* 😬

Aproveitei o embalo e fiz uma tradução.

The next radical political economy workshop series is now full, which I'm delighted with. I'll definitely run more in the new year.

Laminating my notes and visual props for the Hidden Connolly Walking Tour tomorrow. Rain or shine :-)

Augustine O'Donoghue and myself are giving a workshop in Rua Red next month. Free but booking preferred - Housing Crisis and Socially-Engaged Art www.eventbrite.ie/e/housing-cr...

Connolly’s landslide buries political myths about Ireland’s presidential process - how the establishment's attempts to explain #Aras25 are fatally flawed from the outset, and who really matters in the aftermath. philipoconnor.com/connollys-la...

Only a few tickets left for next week's radical walking Tour - the hidden Connolly - www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-hidden...

Remember to set your clocks back one hour tonight, unless of course you wanted Maria Steen to be president, in that case set them back to 1952. #PresidentialElection #Aras25

Just arrived, a publication from 1933 that has an article by the long-forgotten Irish marxist writer, theorist and activist, Joe Troy.

If you are in London, or know someone who is, Pat Brodie and I are having a book launch event in the AA Bookshop this Wednesday 22nd. Ireland, data centres, bogs, postcolonial development, imperialism, anti-colonial struggles....something for everyone.

I like this slide for today's workshop on money. It's a follow-on from a question raised at last week's session on what does it mean to say that currency is a commons? This is an idea that is put forward quite clearly (I believe) by Mary Mellor in her book, The Future of Money.

Hosting another James Connolly walking tour next month, hoping to have radical walks (with different themes) first Saturday of the month till the spring. www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-hidden...

Slides for week two of Money: An Activist’s Guide – held in the Spark, Phibsboro conor-mccabe.com/2025/10/02/m...

Working on slides for the money classes and this is the schema I carry in my head for the role of radical political economy in any movement for progressive change.

Hosting a Connolly walking tour next Saturday. Tickets available here - www.eventbrite.ie/e/james-conn...

Speaking about Daniel O'Connell at this event later on today at 1pm. Livesteam link on the page dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/daniel...

Powerpoint PDF for this evening's radical political economy workshop on Money and Ireland, an activist's guide. I'll be adding an audio recording of my talk later on in the month. conor-mccabe.com/2025/09/25/m...

I have a letter in the latest issue of History Ireland that delves into the forgotten names of the men in the (now iconic) photo of the ISRP in the Phoenix Park in 1901.

I asked DeepSeek to summarise my book, Money, just to see what it would say, and apparently my core argument relates to what I call the "credit-shelter complex"? All news to me but I still found myself checking to see if I did write about it EVEN THOUGH I'M THE AUTHOR!

The next Connolly walking tour is the morning of Sat 4 Oct, slightly earlier than usual to allow people to attend the Palestine rally afterwards. www.eventbrite.ie/e/james-conn...