Looks like the First Minister’s been wrapping Mark Devenport’s knuckles for making ripples in the newly wed’s hamely bliss over the first set of contrary press releases over Northern Ireland’s ultimate destiny. Is Gerry Adams trying to play Yoko to Ian Paisley’s Paul McCartney, or should that be the other way round?
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 »
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 »
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 »
Reading Ian’s comments I think of “elephants in the corner”, “things swept under the carpet” etc.
Yoko Ono & Paul McCartney – not sure whether it’s that situation for either side, Mick.
Mick
Ever see Animal Crackers?
Yoko and McCartney? Nah.
More like Grouchos Captain Spalding to Margaret Dumonts Mrs Rittenhouse.
As meetings of the executive and assembly occur, slugger should run a weekly competition along the lines of ‘which classic comedy act does the latest episode remind you of?’
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With or without YouTube Clips?
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