Tadgh Ó Cuill-Maonlaí

Critical Analysis

Public Housing, Personal Misery: Ireland’s Mouldy State

Families continue to live with the daily reality of black mould creeping across walls, damp that never quite leaves the air, and the quiet exhaustion of trying to keep a home safe for children.

Critical Analysis

Reclaiming the Commons: Workers’ Control as Ireland’s Living Gaelic Inheritance

In Gaelic Ireland, the land and productive assets were neither the absolute property of a state or private owner. Under the Brehon laws, a tribe or clan held the territory in common.

Critical Analysis

Winter Hardship and the Political Economy of Money in Ireland

That is the paradox being considered this Winter. A society may be able to produce enough food, warmth and the ordinary goods of daily life, but individuals may be denied access to them because they don’t have enough purchasing power.

Critical Analysis

There Will Be Another Day: Reading the Housing Crisis Through Peadar O’Donnell and George Gilmore

Peadar O’Donnell spent a lifetime insisting that formal independence without social content left existing injustices intact under new management. The empty apartments, the stretched rents and the generation locked out of home ownership proves him right.