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Is the best way to overcome the legacy of conflict simply to forget about it? Author and journalist David Rieff spoke on this subject last week in a seminar at the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) at Trinity College Dublin. Rieff has recently written a book titled, Against Remembrance (published in Ireland by Liffey [...] read our review »
Dr Gordon Gillespie, a researcher at the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, gave a presentation on “Graphic Portrayals: Northern Ireland, Graphic Novels and the Peace Process”, at the Linen Hall Library. Gordon started with a clarification that he was going to talk about graphic novels/comic books, not cartoons, and material that was [...] read our review »
“has had to return home to visit his sick daughter”
What they really mean is he has done a Geordie Best and is on the rip with a 40 ouncer and a slapper or two and they are urgently trying to track him down.
Or maybe the CIA have him locked up at an undisclosed location in Europe
LOL what a thrashing those muppets took, christ i can’t get up off the floor, Hampshire only used 2 men