On the danger of dissing Plato…
Blessed are the Shoemakers… nice vignette from John Holbo at Crooked Timber…
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A Political History of the Two Irelands competition…
It’s not often we get free things to give away to our readers, but courtesy of Palgrave Macmillan we have a nice paperback copy of Brian M Walker’s excellent history of partition of the island and how identities shifted in both the north east and the south and west: as most of the territory that [...] read our review »
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Voices from the Grave
Coming up to the Halloween holiday, some people might be frightened of the idea of Voices from the Grave – but for others, the chance to hear an oral history of the Troubles from the mouths of two (in)famous protagonists, PUP leader and former UVF member David Ervine, and Brendan “The Dark” Hughes, is not [...] read our review »
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Graphic portrayals: Northern Ireland, graphic novels and the peace process
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 »
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Nonsense. Anyone with the moral compass of a codfish can plainly see it is Martin McGuinness’s fault half this man’s shoe fell off. (Or is it that his entire shoe fell half off? )
Thanks for changing the pace with that (admittedly remarkably low key) anecdote. Makes up for my earlier disappointment that Pete Baker’s thread was analysing “the aftermath of a Stalinist putsch,” and not, as my overworked eyes first read, “the arrival of Stalinist kitsch.”
I already had my heart set on the his and her Red Army salt and pepper when I realised my mistake.
susan, do you mean this kind of Stalinist kitsch? Or even this?
lollol.
That will do perfectly, Mick, many thanks. I do hope there will be plenty of sinister wax figure commandants onboard.