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A poem for the day – Launching the Whaler Juan Peron
A Belfast epic, and one of my oldest poems, the opener of my first collection, Grub. The gist of the story was found in Moss & Hume’s Shipbuilders to the World: 125 Years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast, 1861-1986, which tells how Eva Peron was due to launch a huge whaling vessel in Belfast, built [...] read our review » -
Do Words Matter?: Book Review of Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution – Debating Peace in Northern Ireland
I share many of the concerns of Andy Pollak, whose recent post ‘My Response to the Slugger Begrudgers’ zeroed in on the ‘relentless flow of negativity’ of some Slugger commentators. Pollak’s post was largely concerned with the medium of the blog. Indeed, I think the anonymity of the online world encourages extreme discourse and allows [...] read our review »
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“You can see Newton’s mind at work…”
To add to the open access treasure trove at the Royal Society, Cambridge University Library is putting online some of its collection of books, maps, manuscripts and journals. We have called the first phase of our work on the Cambridge Digital Library the Foundations Project, which runs from mid-2010 to mid-2013 and has been made possible [...] read our review »
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Comment on Clinton to make “brief visit” to Northern Ireland
on 7 September 2010 at 10:34 am
Is that a brief visit as in it won’t be very long, or a visit just wearing briefs? Always had him down as a boxer shorts man.
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Comment on Tony Blair: “We were absolutely open with people.”
on 6 September 2010 at 1:41 pm
It was “Yo Blair” or “Yo bitch”, can’t quite remember.
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Comment on Tony Blair: “We were absolutely open with people.”
on 6 September 2010 at 1:39 pm
Is this the first case of a signed copy actually devaluing the book. Also, very poor aim from all the protesters throwing stuff in Dublin. Should have got some expert stone-throwers from the North onboard.
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Comment on Tony Blair: “We were absolutely open with people.”
on 6 September 2010 at 1:36 pm
He also has a verbal tick with the word “look”. Any Blair sentence prefaced with “look” actually means, “Look you obviously have the political understanding of the average four year old, so I’m going to spell out just why what I’m saying/doing is so brilliant”.
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