On the day the ROI 1926 Census data is released, here’s another valuable source of information if you’re wanting to find out more about Ireland

This is an excellent analysis of the structural issues behind the fuel protests from Conor McCabe www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Our place is, and always has been, with Lumpen journal, so now we want to hear from you! theclassworkproject.com/lumpen-18-ca...

Took several weeks to get through customs, but my Publishers Weekly book review finally arrived! “Fiercely original”: I’ll take that. And an Editor’s Pick as a “book of outstanding quality.” Well, thank you kindly. 😀

Wrote a piece for the Examiner on the fuel protests - www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

🚨 Announcement We're excited to announce the next stage of our Stalin Collected Works series: Vols 5 & 6 (1921-24) will be coming out on May 27. Vols 7 & 8 (1925-26) due out in November. Essential documents of the early years of socialist construction in the USSR.

I think you can a sense of the current lack of availability of Connolly's writings when just two years of his complete journalism comes to over 300 pages and 145,000 words (with notes).

‘The Sinn Fein Movement in Ireland’ by Bernard McMahon from The Chicago Daily Socialist. Vol. 1 No. 269. September 6, 1907. An important figure in James Connolly’s joining and working for the Socialist Party was Chicago-based Bernard McMahon. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/04/05/m...

Came across this while looking for something else. Sketch of 44 Stafford St., birthplace of Wolfe Tone, now long demolished.

This week's release! Scars and Medals - Mohanad Alsayed (@LtsFreePalestine) Gripping the reader from the very beginning, Mohanad's memoir—from coming of age during the First Intifada, and the riveting search in diaspora for a lost freedom fighter uncle.

Print edition, and free digital edition, available: www.iskrabooks.org/scars-and-me...

Iskra Books is excited to launch our new journal project - Red Horizons! This scholarly, radical journal will be in the service of global liberation movements—a site for cutting-edge theory, translations, art, and poetry.

'The Irish Labor Movement' by Thomas J. O’Flaherty from Industrial Pioneer. Vol. 1 No. 5. June, 1921. Written for an I.W.W. audience in the United States, Irish-born Tomás Ó Flaithearta surveys the history of Ireland’s labor movement. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/03/30/t...

Waiting for Posto.

Me, an idiot: "The Mansion House is one of the finest examples of early 18th century architecture in Dublin. How could you possibly improve it?" Dublin City Council: "I dunno. Horse a neon shamrock in front of it?"

Just six years before the Easter Rising — and his execution by the British — Irish republican and socialist James Connolly gave a speech right here in NY-7, at an open-air meeting on the corner of Manhattan Ave and Huron Street in Greenpoint.

Mamdani praises Connolly while Martin praises Churchill.

Best part of a week working on one article by Connolly, chasing down references and compiling short biographies of the people mentioned in it. The article itself is 873 words long, while the footnotes currently stand at 2,217 - almost three times the length.

Art by Kow Yokoyama. Female priest seems done with this slime's shit.

Interesting use of "shoneen" to describe the intermediary/middleman class of ranchers and fatteners in Ireland, from a UIL meeting in 1899.

‘The Economic Situation in Ireland’ by Séan Murray from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 11 No. 40. July 30, 1931. Newly ‘independent’ Ireland was a country that had also seen a counter-revolution politically... revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/03/09/t...

Really taken with the sundial fountain on James St, which was a meeting place for radicals in the city for decades, including Connolly and Larkin. Playing around with ways to incorporate it into radical education today.

David Byrne on the Jonathan Ross Show thinking how did i get here?

Arrived today and, dear reader, it uses footnotes. 💘

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

- AI training isn’t ‘learning’ and shouldn’t be treated as such The House of Lords has been absolutely consistent on this, and they are totally right. Will the government listen? /end

The Housing Minister & council officials are not just "off to the Riviera," they're off to the MIPIM - a global real estate event. Less than a week after the lifting of the rent caps, they are off to tell the vulture funds that it's time to "drill baby drill" in Ireland's rental market.

A new film documents Dubliners’ resistance to subordination of social life to profit. “The market is a monster,” says filmmaker James Redmond. “It turns living spaces into dead space.”

‘Irish Fighters in Spain Honor James Connolly’ from The Daily Worker. Vol. 14 No. 156. July 1, 1937. Held under fire, a ceremony commemorating the 21st anniversary of Connolly’s execution with comrades from all over the world participating. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/03/02/i...

www.bunniesontrampolines.com/ai-generated... Something I wrote on the impact of AI and graduate jobs in what is, by the government’s own admission, one of the most exposed labour markets in the developed world.

I review the 50th edition of Saothar in History Ireland, and so get to respond to Shay Cody's article that James Connolly served in India and Egypt and that I may be "wrong" in my analysis and research. This is me giving him the gentlest of taps; I really could have gone to town on it.

Deeper insight is needed into how interconnected crises affect labour markets, workers' agency and corporate accountability. Submit your abstract to this year’s Work, Employment and Society Conference to take part in the discussion. Deadline 20 March: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Fergal Finnegan reviews "It's Not Where You Live, It's How You Live: Class and Gender Struggles in a Dublin Estate", edited by John Bissett, in our latest issue buff.ly/zCRdEhj #CDJ #BookReviews

Poster for a socialist meeting in Dublin, 1887

Problems have solutions. Contradictions do not. They are permanent points of tension that can only be managed within the system in which they are embedded. They only go away when the system as a whole disappears. www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0...

#OnThisDay in London's insurrectionary history: Colonel Despard executed for planning revolution, 1803. wp.me/p74yfw-3Y

Sometimes you footnote just for yourself. Does the average reader really need to know the context for Connolly's comment on the weather?

Now that vol. II is with @iskrabooks.bsky.social for publication I feel like I'm finally catching up with the schedule and getting on top of things. Really enjoying editing the next collection - vol. III (1898-1899) - which contains the first two years of his journalism in Ireland.

Ad for Pearse and Sons above an ad for Connolly's pamphlet, Erin's Hope. United Irishman, 31 May 1902.

‘The Civil War in Ireland’ by Roderick Connolly from Bulletin of the IV Congress. No. 26. December 6, 1922. James Connolly's son speaks to the Communist International on the Irish Civil War. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/02/15/c...

#OnThisDay in London socialist history: Irish-born trade unionist Jim Connell, writer of the song ‘The Red Flag’, buried, Golders Green, 1929 wp.me/p74yfw-rB

Premium Newsletter: AI data centers are low-margin, high-capex time bombs with low gross margins possible only in perfect circumstances, fueled by junk-grade debt. Without $100bn+ in new, non-hyperscaler demand by 2028, the majority of these loans go unpaid. www.wheresyoured.at/data-center-...

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!

CFP: Representing the Global Irish Working Class: National and International Contexts and Dialogues (University of Galway, 11-12 June 2026) irishstudies.nd.edu/events/cfp-r...

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✊