The culling of community development and the silencing of a social class

After years working for Kilbarrack community in north Dublin, Cathleen O’Neill realises there is a wider
poltical agenda at play in the elite’s attack on the community sector.
Like most women of my class at the time, I was an early school leaver. I started work at 13 using a doctored birth cert. I returned to school [...]

The Legacy of James Connolly

Guess who’s back?
Historian Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh considers the life and ideas of Irish socialism’s most important thinker, whose legacy is crucial to shaping the new Ireland:
This year marks the centenary of James Connolly coming back to Ireland from the US, the start of six hectic years of activity ended only by the firing squad. But [...]