Robert Ballagh explains why he thinks Gerry Adams’ much publicised appeal to the IRA is of major significance: “what Gerry Adams and the leadership of Sinn Féin are attempting to do is to consign to history the oldest continuing political strategy on this island, namely, the physical force tradition. Nothing more, nothing less!”
Here’s a great review of a fascinating book (H/T reader Rory) on how the Internet is destroying our capacity for intelligent, focused and critical thought. It opens thus: …here is the news that Ulin brings in this slim, meandering book: that reading is “an act of contemplation”; that such an act becomes more difficult in [...] read our review »
This is article was first published in Fortnight magazine back in February 2003. Chris Farrington is now a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ in the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin. Although the circumstances it describes has changed radically and [...] read our review »