Best of Talkback podcast
For those who are interested the feed for the Best of Talkback podcast is now available ready for the first edition.
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“I loathe Ireland and the Irish.”
In the Irish Times, Brian Cosgrove takes up temporary residence in An Irishman’s Diary in the hope that, with the lifting of European copyright restrictions on James Joyce’s major works, a greater familiarity with Joyce’s ”sometimes ruthless realism” may change the nature of the “annual Edwardian charade” that is Bloomsday. From the Irish Times The devastating cultural effects [...] read our review » -
Eamon Nancarrow’s misadventures in Rock…
It’s the quiet ones you have to watch, they say. When I last saw Eamonn Namcarrow, back in the mid 1980s he was a congenial, good-natured and highly sociable young lad. The next time was 26 years later, in Lavery’s Gin Palace in Bradbury Place. He’d just brought out his first book, Holywood Star about [...] read our review »
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Children of the Revolution (Bill Rolston)
What was life like for children of political activists during the Troubles? A new book by Bill Rolston and published by Guildhall Press during the summer has collected together the stories of twenty Children of the Revolution whose parents’ activities – and in many cases, imprisonment – had a significant affect on childhoods and life [...] read our review »
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Best of Talkback eh,
Well, i’ve got 30 seconds to spare so should have time to listen to it…
Best of Nolan shouldn’t even take that long of course.
Cheers! What else is on the BBC website?
By far and away at the moment the best podcast on the BBC is “in our time” with Melvyn Bragg.
Over here: Genuine thanks but I was being sarcastic.
BBC is one of the world’s most popular sites and most of us check it out. Still, slugger seems to feel the need to pick up on everything they do and run it here, often in a fawning “Martina Purdy’s done an amazing report on the latest DUP Press Release….” kinda way.
billie-Joe given that Slugger basically aggregates all Northern Ireland media as a starting point for commentary and discussion why wouldn’t they link to BBC stuff?