A longer clip from The Undercover Diplomat. This time Powell’s recollections from slightly earlier in The Process™ in 2002, on hearing words he had written being spoken by Adams at an Ard Fheis. He’s also filmed recently joking with McGuinness about bugs and securocrats and the last part of the clip is on “when things started to go badly wrong” before John de Chastelain’s press conference in 2003.
Fair play to Iain, he managed to get over 2,200 people voting in his poll for the top Northern Irish blogs this year… We (just, I imagine) retained our top spot, with Splintered coming straight in at number 2, no doubt his pet subject du jour will have garnered him a lot of fans… I’ve [...] read our review »
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 »
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 »
Early on there is the parroting of the line about the Stormont spy scandal. This nonsense was fed to Blair and affected policy. This so called spy ring story has Since that has been discredited. Just how much else is dodgy about the understated spin from Powell? Must say that the part with Adams had a cut’n'paste look about it. If not then Gerry does not come out of it well.
nauseating clip from book tie-in BBC docu-melodrama with the love in with Gerry and Marty showing just why Molyneaux was right to distrust the diplomats who go native. Unionists get about thirty seconds of his attention span- sort of like hapless Trimble did in real life then