I’ve booked a room at Jury’s Inn at the foot of the Grosvenor Road for next Tuesday evening… Meeting at 7.00pm and working through till 9-10… Tea and biscuits provided and may a pint afterwards before we all head home… Limited spaces I’m afraid, but if you want to come drop me a line… mick.fealty@gmail.com
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 »
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 »
Which reminds me…. Platform for Change’s driving force Robin Wilson has produced a corrective to the notion that the lessons of the NI conflict are easily exportable. Like myself, Robin is associated with the Constitution Unit. He introduced his new book in a CU blog which I here reproduce. The water crisis in Northern Ireland [...] read our review »
Wish you well.
Fun that the process may eclipse the achievements to be celebrated.
Who’s going to actuate “The Awards Awards” I wonder?
Thanks Quietz. I take it the cost of flights will preclude you from volunteering?
We have a small but perfectly formed readers panel so far. We can’t manage more than 14 in the space, so it will be first come first served…
The main task will be to sift through all the public nominations and come up with a short list of three. I’ll be chairing and noting some of the main discussion points which will form part of the briefing for the judges the following evening.
One of these days . . . I’ll visit the land of a few of my forefathers.
I’d not presume to offer to join your panel in any case, having more modest views on matters of which I am reasonably ignorant.
If the first fourteen have it, will they then be permitted to vote on those three they have shortlisted, or is that to be left to the rest of the Company?
Only one serious conflict of interest would be if your blog was nominated. I don’t think nominating itself should be a bar to participation.