Here’s a handy resource, that should be making it to Slugger’s lengthening blogroll shortly. It allows you pump in your post code a get some interesting, if limited demographic information. For instance, Holywood is one of those places keeping the Northern Ireland population going with a Total Period Fertility Rate (TPFR) of 2.50, compared to 1.66 for the whole of North Down.
Are you confused about ‘dissident’ Irish Republicanism? Anxious about its existence and its seemingly increasingly deadly capabilities? Martyn Frampton’s new book, Legion of the Rearguard: Dissident Irish Republicanism (Irish Academic Press, 2011) serves both as a primer on active dissident groups and a timely analysis of their historic significance and contemporary capabilities. This book clears [...] read our review »
World by Storm has a nice piece up on the IRA’s role in helping MK, the armed wing of the ANC, in the 1980s. In particular he sees a strange alchemy at work there: …if one can think of a clearly legitimate contemporary struggle it was that against apartheid and it is to the credit [...] read our review »
The sea air always did seem fresher in Holywood than Bangor
Thanks for the link Mick. This looks like a really useful site!
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