Myself and Keith (that’s his new blog) got along to the Ashanti Alston talk and Q&A in An Culturlann on Tuesday. Keith has some audio uploaded here. I’ll not give a write up as Barry McCaffrey’s piece in the Irish News covers pretty much everything I jotted down.
Having somehow managed to avoid watching a single episode of the widely praised West Wing TV series I was delighted to discover the entire Box set in my Christmas stocking – and with enough spare time over the holidays to give it a good lash. But with 10 episodes of the first series under my [...] read our review »
World by Storm has a nice piece up on the IRA’s role in helping MK, the armed wing of the ANC, in the 1980s. In particular he sees a strange alchemy at work there: …if one can think of a clearly legitimate contemporary struggle it was that against apartheid and it is to the credit [...] read our review »
Was an interesting talk, especially the part about his “strong affinity” to the struggle in Ireland. Though there was a fair bit of tourist romanticism about the guy.