CLAIMING OUR FUTURE Saturday 30th October 2010 Demand for maximum income to cut gap between rich and poor emerges at Ireland’s first ‘citizens forum’. A maximum income, a reformed tax system, and a minimum income threshold emerged as policy priorities at Ireland’s first ‘citizens forum’ in Dublin’s RDS today (Saturday). Over 1,100 participants also called [...]
A fascinating new series of talks begins this evening, May 7, 2010, at Christine Clear’s The Living Room. What she calls ‘contemplative conversations’ have the collective title of “Taking Ownership: conversations exploring a radical sense of responsiblity in contemporary Ireland.” The inaugural talk is The Responsibility of the Individual, by Professor Ivor Browne These conversations [...]
Photo owned by Who Remembers the Woman that danced on O’Connell St Facebook Page When I saw the headline Tribute paid to Dublin character, by Olivia Kelly in the Irish Times, I feared that one of the few public witnesses to her gospel that I had ever warmed to was dead. Happily, Mary Margaret Dunne [...]
Recently I was asked by an MA research student to give some background about Irish Writers Online. A most gratifying request, of course, and so I set about looking up its history and stats. I was pleasantly surprised to see that in 2009, visitors from 170 countries had made use of it. I knew it [...]