David McWilliams

Economist, podcaster and author

[David McWilliams @davidmcw]

It's brilliant when lots of work finally begins to come together.

My new book, Money: A Story of Humanity will be out on September 12.

[David McWilliams @davidmcw]

Kudos to @RobCross247 for consistently highlighting this...country councils? anyone responsible?

[Rob Cross @RobCross247]

Why is this dereliction tolerated, especially amid a housing crisis, with 17,447 people registered in state-funded emergency accommodation across Ireland, including 5,583 children, and why isn’t this Georgian townhouse listed on Limerick’s Record of Protected Structures? Even removing the weeds and tidying the paintwork would be a simple start.

📷No. 24 Thomas Street, Limerick City.

👀Google Street View:
https://t.co/dHooqmAoc8

#Limerick #Ireland #Heritage #HeritageAtRisk #HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland

[Rob Cross @RobCross247]

Limerick is a city that takes particular pride in having Ireland’s largest collection of Georgian architecture outside Dublin, yet it fails to protect its architectural heritage. One example is six 19th-century Georgian terraces on Clare Street, Limerick City: they are not on the Record of Protected Structures and lie outside the “Clare Street” Architectural Conservation Area (ACA 8), which is hard to believe.

Below is a webpage I built to highlight dereliction in Ireland, propose solutions, and showcase heritage buildings and structures at risk. The page includes quick facts, a summary, history and ownership, a dated photographic decline log, planning/enforcement history, vacancy/dereliction signals, reuse potential, recommended next actions, open questions, and sources.

ℹ️ Research: https://t.co/024Bsn4vdz

💶Useful Links and Grants Available: (Worked client scenarios — which grants to stack, when to apply, when they're paid)
https://t.co/QC0BV1FV2t

#Limerick #Ireland #Heritage #HeritageAtRisk #HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland

[Rob Cross @RobCross247]

Featured in today's Irish Mail on Sunday.🏚️🗞️
#HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland

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@DustyFbpe Great album from the namesake!!

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Western Europeans won the lottery of life. But this is changing, culturally and economically - https://t.co/dFzoeyDavc

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more casual vandalism...

[Rob Cross @RobCross247]

It is a real shame that, in the midst of a housing crisis, our heritage is treated so poorly. The former Baltimore Fishery School was a philanthropic boat-building and navigation school that opened in 1886: the first work-study centre of its kind in West Cork. It later became the Baltimore Industrial School, which closed in the early 1950s and is now remembered chiefly for documented institutional abuse.

Below is a webpage I built to highlight dereliction in Ireland, propose solutions, and showcase heritage buildings and structures at risk.

ℹ️https://t.co/sAqLOjzlha

👀Google Street View:
https://t.co/HJnvOC00Rv

#Cork #Ireland #Heritage #HeritageAtRisk #HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland

[David McWilliams @davidmcw]

@DubCityCouncil what about a bit of love for the kip? Might be a bit of a kip in parts, but its our kip!

BTW the word kip only used here, comes directly from Viking word "kippe" for a cheap boozer. How much more Dublin can you get?

[Rob Cross @RobCross247]

Wouldn’t it be great if Dublin City Council restored one of the last surviving 18th–19th-century quayside merchant stores: a protected structure on the River Liffey on Usher’s Island Street, Dublin, vacant for decades, and turned it into a tourist attraction?

Below is a webpage I built to highlight dereliction in Ireland, propose solutions, and showcase heritage buildings and structures at risk.
https://t.co/gmk05mloV4

Google Street View:
https://t.co/1qNI6G5MLY

#Dublin #Ireland #Heritage #HeritageAtRisk #HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland

[David McWilliams @davidmcw]

The pleasure was all mine!

[P J @PJ03148227]

4 fantastische dagen gehad tijdens @dalkeybookfest dank u @davidmcw

[David McWilliams @davidmcw]

Morning.
Ahead of Ireland taking up EU Presidency, the latest podcast looks at the deep cultural fault-lines within West Europe, from the Visigoths & Romans, Reformation, the Enlightment, secularism, WW1/2 to the EU in Brussels. Hope u enjoy it.
https://t.co/FPFQ6CSInW

[David McWilliams @davidmcw]

@donalwhelan1 hahahaha...but in fairness its a brilliant WC so far. P{ity the Italians aren't in, as Little Italy a great spot to watch football.

[Laura Phillips 💙 @LauraPh222]

Catch up with this @BBCSounds

[Frank McNally @FrankmcnallyIT]

Had great fun appearing at my first ever @dalkeybookfest, thanks to this lovely crowd.

[David McWilliams @davidmcw]

This year, Dalkey Book Festival is heading to Portugal.

In partnership with Visit Portugal, we’re bringing Portuguese writers, artists, musicians, winemakers and storytellers to Dalkey, celebrating one of Europe’s most fascinating cultures. @dalkeybookfest

All events are on in The Corner Note https://t.co/kzqzgxGCwW Tickets available through eventbrite:
https://t.co/cOUm339L7r

[David McWilliams @davidmcw]

@GayeMoore @dalkeybookfest great see you tomorrow

[David McWilliams @davidmcw]

Kicking off tonight, for three days/nights of books, arguments, chats and laughs. @dalkeybookfest
If you are around drop in and if you are coming to gigs, thanks as always for your support, we couldn't do this without you.

[David McWilliams @davidmcw]

@irishelt @dalkeybookfest love to do that,,can you help?

[David McWilliams @davidmcw]

In the house tomorrow night @dalkeybookfest
https://t.co/qnEmTxfoh4

[David McWilliams @davidmcw]

We can't wait to see you @dalkeybookfest 🥰

[Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 @AngelicaOung]

Angelica is in Türkiye! 🇹🇷

Just for an extended layover. My flight is tomorrow and I am not leaving the airport hotel area. But goodness…it’s already been an adventure.

The people here are very kind but also extremely inefficient. It took me like half an hour to get a bag of cherries. I didn’t mean to get so many but the grandma just dumped them into my bag and it was a lot of cherries but only works out to US 3-4 dollars. Cherries are super expensive in Taiwan and those are sooooo good!

I think I psyoped myself into thinking Istanbul is going to be a highly cosmopolitan westernized place because that’s all the Turkish ppl I know but then of course those are all the Turkish ppl that would leave Turkey. Most women are wearing veils which really surprised me. Nobody spoke English in the fruit store or the borek store.

Anyhow, I’m on my way to the fantabulous @dalkeybookfest where I will be a speaker on Taiwan, China and nuclear. Maybe I’ll grab a selfie with Salman Rushdie! And Lionel Shriver which I am a huge fan of is also going to be there.

And of course I cannot wait to hang out again with all the ppl I know from @kilkenomics like @davidmcw the host with the most and @SonyKapoor and too many others! I can already taste the pints!

Many of you might know I am a big Ottoboo so I am certainly not going to go back to Taipei without staying a few more days in Istanbul on the way back. But I’ll be in a downtown hotel in Sultanahmet where I can explore at my leisure!

[David McWilliams @davidmcw]

@irishelt @joehas @realBobbyHealy Good one!