Happy St Paddy’s, creep…
JUDGE Dredd fans wanting to look zarjaz this St Paddy’s Day might want to check out this new 2000AD T-shirt. Hat-tip to NI’s very own Comic Book Guy, Mark the librarian.
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“Unionism Decayed 1997-2007″ by David Vance: book review
I initially wrote this when the book was first published three years ago; whilst certain elements of it now sound dated, its basic premise that the period of 1997-2007 was a period of irreversible decay for Northern Irish Unionism can still be argued as a valid opinion. My own feeling is that it did indeed [...] read our review » -
Books: Listening to Van Morrison…
Great little review of Listening to Van Morrison by Griel Marcus… It’s a short book, not a biography or a career survey, but an attempt to follow those moments in Morrison’s music, as he’s made it from his first records with Them, from Belfast in 1965 to the present day, when something happens that breaks [...] read our review »
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Is Fianna Fail the new Woolworths of Irish politics?
It’s not published until 3rd March, but one book I recommend you place an advance order for from Slugger’s Bookstore is James Harkin’s Niche. Belfast émigré Harkin examines a number of stories from business, culture and politics and comes to a single insight: everywhere the broad middle is collapsing. He offers Woolworths as an iconic exemplar [...] read our review »
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Ahhh now this was a classic Dredd storyline – when he goes to the emerald isle.
Art by Steve Dillon and story by local hero Garth Ennis.
Ireland has been turned into a disney of diddly-dee and begorrahs and Dredd comes over chasing a guy on the run. Turns out though that a paramilitary group called the Sons of Erin (armed with spud guns capable of firing everything from mash to chips) wants Ireland to throw of the shackles of being a twee tourist destination and takes it place in what remains of the family of nations.
I always thought the cover would make a briliant t-shirt and hadindeed gave it to a mate of mine to make me a t-shrt from it……. and never saw it again. Grud!!!!
Not only a classic storyline, but also worryingly prophetic. The landscape in the comic strip was full of twee irish cottages in every field. What have we today – a landscape with a bungalow in every field….. Also liked the way Dredd ran over and destroyed St Stephen’s Green (all 3 blades of grass) on his bike.