Hearts and Minds…
On Hearts and Minds, Noel Thompson tries to put Wendy Austin’s question to Martin McGuinness and gets the same reaction.
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Turas, by Colin Neill – a story of strangers in a strange land
Colin Neill’s first novel Turas peeks into a world in which many Ulster Protestants feel uncomfortable. It’s 2020 and the Irish unification that unionists and loyalists confidently predicted would never happen has become a reality. President Adams is ensconced in Phoenix Park. The newsreader reported that … a short ceremony at Stormont had confirmed the [...] read our review »
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Hearing the Other Voice from the Grave: Why Should we Listen to David Ervine’s Stories?
Ed Moloney’s Voices from the Grave: Two Men’s War in Ireland has received considerable attention in the press and in the public realm since its publication earlier this year. Although the book relates the experiences of the Provisional IRA’s Brendan Hughes and the PUP/UVF’s David Ervine, much of the discussion has focused on Hughes’ stories [...] read our review » -
Have we Learned our own Lessons? Book Review of John Brewer’s Peace Processes
Northern Ireland’s peace process has been promoted as an international success story. The Republic’s Department of Foreign Affairs has its Conflict Resolution Unit, which aims to disseminate the ‘lessons’ of the Northern Ireland peace process. And some of the prominent players in our peace process have travelled abroad to other troubled spots to share their [...] read our review »
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Stuff the OTRs, what about those sideburns! Is Martin plugging for an Elvis impersonator job now decommissioning has happened? I think we should be told…
What was the point then of:
Relatives for Justice
Collusion is not an Illusion
An Fhirinne
The Finucane inquiry
The Nelson inquiry
The McBride inquiry
Bloody Sunday
all rendered pointless now? Why did they bother if their main representatives sold them out?
McGuinness’s point that the British would have never come before a court anyway is, frankly, not acceptable. They used these issues and have just dismissed them. Sickened actually the more I hear him go on.