An unusual solar eclipse..
Stunning image of Sol eclipsed by Saturn as viewed from the Casssini spacecraft. Just about visible in the larger image is a rather familiar pale blue dot [to the left just above the bright main rings - Ed] via TCAL
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Kevin Myers’ ‘Watching the Door’: Book Review
This reads as if a mad picaresque tale. Myers as first a reporter for RTÉ and then as a freelance journalist with no real experience, finds himself wandering into savagery as he hastens north as the Troubles explode. A soldier dies next to him; he witnesses an IRA ambush; he sees children shot to death [...] read our review »
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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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Sunday Supplement
It being Sunday, we’ve all got time to consider and ponder things at greater length than during the working week, yes? If it’s good enough for the Sunday papers, it’s good enough for this guest blogger. So here’s the review section… Actually, it’s my introduction to a book published last year, Goin’ Down Slow: selected [...] read our review »
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That brightened up the morning, better than the political eclipses at home. Fumbling around in the dark.
Can’t see Room 21, though. It must bee too big for the picture!
An amazing picture! ‘Puts the sniping an’ jeering here in to perspective?