Mary harris jones autobiography of a flea

  • Mother Jones, born Mary Harris of Blarney Street in 1830, married Jones who died with their children in a house fire in America.
  • Mother Jones Flea Market is a new market in the heart of Cork City Centre.
  • New book from our friend, neighbour and regular visitor Conal Creedon.

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    Still wandering around McCurtain Street on Saturday morning exploring. I'm bringing ten American guests to Cork on December 28th so ansträngande to learn some real Cork history. Amazingly in the 2* Hotel inom stayed in last night the television hauntingly came on whenever it wished and this morning on came an incredible documentary about Cork born Melbourne Archbishop Daniel Mannix who changed Australian politics alltid, including the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Melbourne in 1920 where over 100,000 people lined the streets. The Archbishop was a pacifist until like so many the assisinations of our 1916 patriots changed local, national and international attitudes about Independence with further questioning of the call to slaughter of World War 1.

    I then visited St. Patricks Church to learn that his relic was stolen from there in 2013! Fabulous church with such ornate ceilings and stained glass windows. It's funny how one can drive past places for 50 years and never see them!

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    Remember The Ladies

    By Marion Lipschutz

    Ever looked through books on women in history? It's both inspring and enjoyable to discover the number of dynamic women you probably only knew of vaguely, if at all. I was surprised at how many names of women there actually are in history books. I was equally surprised at how hard it was to find furthur information on them, except "the greats," Catherine dc Medici, Queen Elizabeth, Cleopatra, Marie Curie, Elizabeth Blackwell and a few stray suffragists are fairly well represented. But until the 1970's there was little written on hundreds of other women who have played important roles in history.

    For centuries women were relegated to the private sphere of domestic life. Since they were supposedly buried in the kitchen, it is no wonder myopic scholars could not perceive the number of women who did indeed make a difference.

    There are different theories for this hardly benign neglect. In recent years many historians have shifted their focus fr

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    I might never have found my way to Polyface Farm if Joel Salatin hadn’t refused to FedEx me one of his chickens.

    I’d heard a lot about the quality of the meat raised on his “beyond organic” farm, and was eager to sample some. Salatin and his family raise a half-dozen different species (grass-fed beef, chickens, pigs, turkeys, and rabbits) in an intricate rotation that has made his 550 hilly acres of pasture and woods in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley one of the most productive and sustainable small farms in America. But when I telephoned Joel to ask him to send me a broiler, he said he couldn’t do that. I figured he meant he wasn’t set up for shipping, so I offered to have an overnight delivery service come pick it up.

    “No, I don’t think you understand. I don’t believe it’s sustainable—‘organic,’ if you will—to FedEx meat all around the country,” Joel told me. “I’m afraid if

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