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...

Book Launch: Refaat Alareer’s ‘If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose’ with Yousef M. Aljamal. 8th October, Irish Writers' Centre. A new collection of poetry and prose from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer launched by his close friend and editor Yousef M. Alajamal #FreePalestine

📘Announcement!📘 We're excited to announce the upcoming release of For Land - Capital as Extinction By @Prolekult.bsky.social 📅Free PDF, and print edition out Nov 14th. An annotated and expanded version of the script of the essential documentary on land (mis)use in contemporary capitalism.

Great reaction to the Saving The City podcast, and it's at #2 in the Irish charts! If you haven't got to it yet, have a listen. We've got global and national experts and doers, and look at solutions for post-pandemic cities across housing, public space, gentrification, biodiversity, and loads more.

Almost finished the biographical outline for the introduction to the second volume of Connolly's complete works. Normally this would be just a couple of hours' work - a quick walk through the main events of his life for those new to Connolly - but it has taken me the best part of a week

Read more in this analysis from @foeireland.bsky.social www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/data-ce...

Energy prices for households are going up because of network costs to upgrade infrastructure. At the same time, data centres are paying reduced costs and profiting from energy services they provide to the state. www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Every time a reactionary ‘taboo-breaker’ becomes a free speech icon/martyr, sacralisation demands that their critics are fired, silenced,threatened, purged.This gets called hypocrisy, but that would require free speech be a coherent idea, rather than the technology of power it’s always been.

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So much of James Connolly's life in Dublin, especially from 1896 to 1903, is tied up with the Liberties - and yet I don't think this fact is particularly well-known even in the area.

Radical times in Harold's Cross...

The first comprehensive study of women guerrillas in Iranian Kurdistan. Women of Komala is OUT NOW: www.plutobooks.com/978074535082...

Peace, Land, and Bread #6 will be out on Oct 25th! Keep updated on PLB, Iskra Books, and all our activity by signing up to our mailing list. Head over to www.iskrabooks.org and join up!

Paris Commune commemoration in 1887, held at 50 Dawson Street (roughly the entrance to Royal Hibernian Way).

Me whenever I inadvertently turn on or read Irish mainstream media and journalism...

Three apartments in Smithfield going for €1.2 million. No news in that these days, but in the ad they make a point of highlighting that the units are vacant and have been for three years, and as such no rent caps will apply.

Two recent migrants to Dublin in 1901, Barnet and Abraham Volkes, who were welcomed into the ISRP in July of that year. Connolly would later stand in the Wood Quay ward in January 1902 in defence of migrants, explicitly stating how race is used by capitalism to divide the working class.

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

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 www.dublininquirer.com/despite-over...

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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! 🙄

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...

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

Talking about feminism, radicalism and neoliberalism with @camillafitz.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/rethinking-f...

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.

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

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.

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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

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...

"To unite the productive classes of the community in one common bond of union..." The National Association for the Protection of Labour, an early attempt at creating a general trade union of all trades, was constituted by Irish-born John Doherty in Manchester #OnThisDay 1830.

Playing around with design ideas to get across the concept of what FDI in Ireland actually means - its facilitation of flows through the State's tax code rather than the normal use of the word "investment" as, well, investment.

'The usual open-air meeting of the ISRP was held at Foster Place College at 8pm. T. J. Lyng in the chair. Meeting was subjected to interruption by the presence of a disorderly anarchist." From the minutes of the ISRP, May 1901.

Around the same time that Fred Ryan gave Stephen Dedalus/James Joyce two shillings, he gave James Connolly ten shillings towards his US lecture tour