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Lessons in Cute Hoorism: “Graft was accepted, for you were taking from the British…”
I’ve been catching up on some reading, recently. Most pleasantly surprised by John Drennan’s latest opus from Gill and Macmillan, Cute Hoors and Pious Protestors… It’s early days yet, but I was struck by this paragraph, part of a dissection of Fianna Fail near the beginning: One of the more fatal consequences of our colonial [...] read our review »
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Turas, by Colin Neill – a story of strangers in a strange land
Colin Neill’s first novel Turas peeks into a world in which many Ulster Protestants feel uncomfortable. It’s 2020 and the Irish unification that unionists and loyalists confidently predicted would never happen has become a reality. President Adams is ensconced in Phoenix Park. The newsreader reported that … a short ceremony at Stormont had confirmed the [...] read our review »
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Propaganda of Peace: Media and culture during the peace process
Extract from Greg McLaughlin and Stephen Baker: The Propaganda of Peace: The Role of Media and Culture in the Northern Ireland Peace Process. Bristol: Intellect Books. 2010. Political opponents Ian Paisley and Martin McGuiness were confirmed as First Minister and Deputy First Minister of a new executive in May 2007, closing yet another chapter in [...] read our review »
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The DVLA’s newest spycam… Mr Giraffe
Very good Keith lol.
The decoy in place, the Irish giraffe hunters waited patiently. They would come, they would come…
Awaiting a decision from the Parades Commission. Eh, Harold?
After decades of keeping his head burried in the sand the unionist noticed an elongation in the neck
Giraffe attacks church after MOT failure on emmissions.
Kathleen,
What’s the problem? Don’t you like Irish giraffes?
This one has a relative, near the top of Church Road Holywood with the junction with Ballymiscaw Rd, just the thing to raise a smile as you near the top of the climb..
Really Brian, I didn’t know that. I think the stuff people put in their gardens is brilliant.. Thats why I get ‘em
to raise a smile…
Taxi to Bellevue please. I was at a party last night and left a cow home.This morning she told me to go and close the gate behind me
“Well? – A fella needs to have a bit of a neck on him round these parts, I tell you!”
“…and, as well as the chimney and the tiles, you’ll need new guttering”.
Housing markets turning into a jungle and some properties are just skrinking under the strain.
Robbie Savage will never find me here!