David McManus: We need pragmatic housing policy, not Sinn Féin ideology There remains a nostalgia for the large council schemes built in the last century – yet they were not built overnight but over decades at a time when building standards were far lower and cheaper 29th April, 2021
‘Speed is needed in the short term as local authorities ramp up new public housing on public land.’ Picture: Getty
“Speed trumps perfection,” according to Michael Ryan of the World Health Organisation, and that attitude from more politicians here would result in getting more new homes built sooner and more families out of hotels.
A history of Fermanagh, from the Plantation to the present
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A conservative revolution
National sovereignty crystalised Gaelicism and late Victorian mores. Marc Mulholland argues, in his second article, that there was no transformation of popular consciousness
If there was an Irish revolution, it probably began with the Irish Land League of 1879-81. This was founded by Michael Davitt, the one-armed son of farmers evicted during the famine (he had lost a limb working as a boy in an English factory), and presided over by Charles Stewart Parnell, a Protestant landlord. The league campaigned against ‘rackrents’ (anything above what tenant farmers thought reasonable) in the short term, and for the peasant proprietorship of the farms they worked in the longer term. The result was a huge social struggle that coined the term ‘boycotting’ and attracted international attention.