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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Our Ireland Book Reviews by 'Read Ireland'

Switch off your TV, settle into a comfortable seat and pick up a good book...

Our Ireland has teamed up with Mr. Gregory Carr's 'Read Ireland', Ireland's leading independent Irish and Celtic book supplier, to bring you regular reviews of Irish interest books. To kick things off we've added two reviews to the'Irish Interest Books' section of the Our Ireland. There will be weekly book reviews and if you see something that interests you just click the link at the bottom of the review pages to visit Read Ireland's popular website where you can order your books on-line.

New Irish Book Reviews Added:

  • Fionnuala MacCurtain's Remember It's For Ireland: A Family Memoir of Tomas MacCurtain
  • Professor Richard English's 'Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland'

Contact Ireland's Leading Independent Irish and Celtic Book Supplier:

Gregory Carr, Independent Bookseller
Read Ireland
392 Clontarf Road,
Clontarf, Dublin 3, Ireland
Tel & Fax: +353-1-853-2063

email: gregcarr@readireland.ie
Please visit the Read Ireland website: www.readireland.com

If you have any feedback or suggestions for this section of the Our Ireland website feel free to comment on this post.



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Our Ireland Book Reviews by 'Read Ireland'

Switch off your TV, settle into a comfortable seat and pick up a good book...

Our Ireland has teamed up with Mr. Gregory Carr's 'Read Ireland', Ireland's leading independent Irish and Celtic book supplier, to bring you regular reviews of Irish interest books. To kick things off we've added two reviews to the 'Irish Interest Books' section of the Our Ireland. There will be weekly book reviews and if you see something that interests you just click the link at the bottom of the review pages to visit Read Ireland's popular website where you can order your books online.

New Irish Book Reviews Added:

  • Fionnuala MacCurtain's Remember It's For Ireland: A Family Memoir of Tomas MacCurtain
  • Professor Richard English's 'Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland'

Contact Ireland's Leading Independent Irish and Celtic Book Supplier:

Gregory Carr, Independent Bookseller
Read Ireland 
392 Clontarf Road,
Clontarf, Dublin 3, Ireland
Tel & Fax: +353-1-853-2063

email: gregcarr@readireland.ie
Please visit the Read Ireland website: www.readireland.com

If you have any feedback or suggestions for this section of the Our Ireland website feel free to comment on this post.

posted by Peter McCormack at 2:10 AM 1 comments links to this post  

Our Ireland Book Reviews by 'Read Ireland'

Switch off your TV, settle into a comfortable seat and pick up a good book...

Our Ireland has teamed up with Mr. Gregory Carr's 'Read Ireland', Ireland's leading independent Irish and Celtic book supplier, to bring you regular reviews of Irish interest books. To kick things off we've added two reviews to the 'Irish Interest Books' section of the Our Ireland. There will be weekly book reviews and if you see something that interests you just click the link at the bottom of the review pages to visit Read Ireland's popular website where you can order your books online.

New Irish Book Reviews Added:

  • Fionnuala MacCurtain's Remember It's For Ireland: A Family Memoir of Tomas MacCurtain
  • Professor Richard English's 'Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland'

Contact Ireland's Leading Independent Irish and Celtic Book Supplier:

Gregory Carr, Independent Bookseller
Read Ireland 
392 Clontarf Road,
Clontarf, Dublin 3, Ireland
Tel & Fax: +353-1-853-2063

email: gregcarr@readireland.ie
Please visit the Read Ireland website: www.readireland.com

If you have any feedback or suggestions for this section of the Our Ireland website feel free to comment on this post.

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Thursday, February 15, 2007

Visit County Cork, Ireland

County Cork is a must see for all visitors to Ireland. Cork City itself offers lots to see and do with plenty of restaurants, cinema, retail areas and sights to see. Patrick Street is at the heart of the city and easily accessible by public bus, taxi or if you're accommodation is close enough you might even consider walking! Now there's a thought!

Rural Cork is beautiful and there's plenty of castles and ruins from Ireland's earlier history to keep your camera finger busy. Don't forget to kiss the 'Blarney Stone' while visiting, but be careful, you may end up with the Cork 'gift of the gab'!

If you're thinking of heading Cork direction for a visit you'll find the overview on our new 'Visit Cork' page a good place to start. Enjoy.

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Traditional Irish Song

For all those out there that love a 'sing-song' with their friends and family (but can never remember all the words!) you may find the new 'Irish Trad Songs' section of the site of helpful.


Traditional Irish music and song is deep rooted in the Irish culture and there are an endless number of tunes and songs covering every human emotion and experience in traditional Irish song.


The modest collection presented here is just the tip of a very big iceberg but hopefully enough to get you started. For anyone who can sing 'The Rocky Road To Dublin' in just 5 breathes I take my hat off to you!


I'm half thinking of singing a few of my favourites and posting them as MP3's for your listening pleasure (or torture!). If there’s any traditional Irish songs that you’re looking for the lyrics to let me know and I'll see what I can do. Mail me.


Now, quiet, Mary's about to a sing... Ah go on Mary, go on. Quiet! Ssshh!. Go on Mary...


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Monday, February 05, 2007

Discrimination: Average Industrial Earnings in Ireland

While researching some statistics for a project I came across the listings for Average Industrial Earnings in Ireland listed from 1998 - 2005.

The figures are disturbing because they suggest wide-scale discrimination of a large part of the Irish workforce based on gender and gender alone. The figures consistently speak for themselves, here's the latest for 05:

2005 figures:

  • Adult Males - 609.91 euro
  • Adult Females - 430.23 euro

How, in this day and age, can a 'civilized' and 'equal opportunities' nation discriminate against such a large section of our society? Surely this is state sanctioned. I'm hardly the first person to notice the huge gap in earnings between the genders, someone in government must surely have added 'one-n-one' together. If government has not put a stop to this obvious discrimination of women in the Irish workforce I'd call that state sanctioned (or am I crazy). And is the bottom-line so important to employers in this country that they are prepared to rip-off their female employees? To deny them an fair share for their efforts? Doubtless there are many men and women represented in these figures that do the exact same job, with the same educational qualifications and responsibilities.

For the full list from 1998 follow this link to the CSO. http://www.cso.ie/statistics/indearnings.htm .

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Our Ireland: Site Updates Notice

Our Ireland: Site Updates Notice

The Sitemap page has finally been added. This will help you navigate the site and get to what you're looking for faster.

Also, I've do a little work on the Irish History page. I will continue to work on this over this week as there's plenty more that can go there.

General clean up and updates of existing pages is under way, also I've an article or two in the pipeline. Will keep you updated.

Peter

www.Our-Ireland.com

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