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Help me with the West Wing: Essential viewing or Party Political Broadcast?
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 »
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A Political History of the Two Irelands competition…
It’s not often we get free things to give away to our readers, but courtesy of Palgrave Macmillan we have a nice paperback copy of Brian M Walker’s excellent history of partition of the island and how identities shifted in both the north east and the south and west: as most of the territory that [...] read our review »
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Learning from 1798?: Northern Ireland’s Upcoming Decade of Commemorations
Last year, the Lilliput Press released a new extended edition of Tom Dunne’s Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize winning book, Rebellions: Memoir, Memory and 1798. First published in 2004, Dunne’s book provoked considerable controversy with its critique of the ‘commemorationist’ history that Dunne believed dominated the 1998 commemorations of the 1798 Rebellion. The book blasted the involvement [...] read our review »
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Comment on The Assembly Elections- what the bookies are saying
on 10 April 2011 at 5:19 pm
The 2007 election returned 3 others (Brian Wilson as a Green, Dr Deeny as himself and Dawn Purvis as PUP). The Good Doctor is not standing again, the Greens have changed candidates in N Down and Dawn Purvis is defending her seat as herself in N Belfast. I’d be interested to hear who A McClean (or anybody else) thinks the 3 to 5 others might be.
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Comment on Hung Parliament: Do the math…
on 9 May 2010 at 12:46 am
See my thoughts on the parliamentary arithmetic (including the constituency that has still to vote) at http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.talk.royalty/msg/ef6bc57ff50b533d?hl=en
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Comment on “…let them experience an election or two to reinforce the point.”
on 6 December 2008 at 10:43 pm
“only last month we had the unedifying spectacle of [the UUP] cosying up to Jim Allister’s stuck-in-a-timewarp Traditional Unionist Voice outfit. They say it’s to maximise the pro-union vote in next year’s European election. But their almost exclusively Protestant support is their only common bond.”
Aside from the fact that they are both Unionist …
And one of the new members who spoke at the UUP Conference to-day was a great-great-nephew of Wee Joe Devlin’s right-hand man, from West Belfast.
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Comment on And we’re off
on 29 November 2008 at 5:04 am
Any speculation on who, other than Nigel, is likely to be on the DUP’s shortlist? I assume that they would prefer not to have a Westminster by-election, especially if Jim Allister were eligible to stand … So maybe some of their unsuccessful 2005 Westminster candidates? E.g. (Diane) Dodds, Foster, Spratt, Weir and Wells?
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