Archbishop John Charles McQuaid & women’s unemployment 1944

To combat high unemployment, a report issued in 1944 under the direction of Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, looked at way in which women could be kept out of the workforce and replaced by men. The Guides chose to disregard the recommendations in the report and with the assistance of their chaplain Fr. Michael Clarke, started an employment…

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Ryan & Paddy

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it says on twitter

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social media and revolution

“Social media are media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques.” wikipedia Revolutionaries in the past have used new media technologies to gain advantage in their struggles, in 1916 in Dublin, Morse code was used to communicate prior to and during the easter rising. In France in 1968…

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Ghosts of Winter Hill

http://www.urbis.org.uk/page.asp?id=3341 4 November 2009 – April 2010 URBIS Manchester For half a century domestic life in Britain has been dominated by the TV set. On 4 November 2009 our relationship with Television enters a new phase with the digital switchover of the Granada region’s Winter Hill transmitter. Posted via email from web lab