Ye Olde Dublin
Ruadhain writes:
Saw you had a post last week about the dangerous sounding place names [Cutt Throat and Murdering Lane, etc] that featured on Rocque’s Map of Dublin. This may interest readers – Harvard has the map entirely on-line and in splendid detail….
Peruse at your leisure here.
Last week: Gadzooks!
Mr Donnelly went to Washington.
And all he brought back was this:
These experts [IMF, World Bank, Harvard, etc] knew that no country had ever repaid that much debt without being able to print its own money. They knew that without a significant reduction in the national debt, a lot of people were not going to get paid back the money they had lent us.
They knew that economic growth and large-scale job creation would be next to impossible with the current levels of household debt. They knew that a country whose GNP was still falling by 2.5 per cent in the fourth year of a crisis was most definitely not on the road to recovery. .
We’re Mad As Hell And Need To Show It (Stephen Donnelly TD, Sunday Independent)
