More on “Sins of the Father” June 25, 2011
Posted by WorldbyStorm in Economy, Irish Politics, The Left, Uncategorized.trackback
There’s going to be a review of Sins of the Father in a few weeks time, but in the interim just to say I’ve finished reading Chapter One on Housing and it is an brilliant [and infuriating - in the best sense of that term, that it inspires rage] dissection of the approach this state took from its inception in assisting the middle class and the ‘deserving’ upper working class and effectively ignoring the generality of the working class.
Someone said to me this week that this is an important book. Of that there is no doubt at all. It’s an essential text.
And more again here.
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Must pick “Sins of the Father” as soon as I see a copy.
Where is it on sale?
Got mine in Hodges Figgis.
I think you’d be right that it is an important book. I too had that same reaction on the housing chapter.
I never knew there was a definition in law of working class….
There isn’t! But work with me as I try to interpret his argument…
I’ve just finished reading it and It is some achievement. Basically he’s updated James Connolly for the 21st century. I’m amazed by the scale, the detail, and the writing.
And yeah, anger doesn’t even come close to it.
The book is brilliant. A devestating critique of the Irish state and its relationship to the propertied elite since its foundation.
And how that propertied elite was pivotal to a state aversion to social provision across a range of areas.
FIRST LAUNCH
Thursday 30 June, 5:30 p.m.
Sins of the Father
Launch of Sins of the Father: Tracing the Decisions that Shaped the Irish Economy, by Conor McCabe
Connolly Books ,43 East Essex Street, Templle Bar , Dublin
Hope it can be launced and futher discussed in venues around the country
Note: if you know where it’s for sale, it might be a good wheeze to go and ask for it first somwehere where it isn’t. On the grounds that if a few people do….
Great point ejh.
Seems to be extremely positive reviews about this book. Will have to get it.
Any reviews of this in the mainstream yet?
Having finished it during the week, I managed to discuss it this morning as part of a talk on steam navigation on the Shannon in the 1830s. Very readable book: no reason why it shouldn’t be widely read.
bjg