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Review: To Kill a Mockingbird
Somehow I escaped reading this essential school text, with its story of racism in 1930s American South. Living in Northern Ireland, I draw parallels with sectarianism, with its similar bigotry and prejudice. To Kill a Mockingbird was part of a Unite Against Hate campaign event at Parliament Buildings in Northern Ireland, which I’ve written [...] 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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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 »
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Comment on Northern Nationalism’s East-West Divide
on 21 April 2011 at 7:24 pm
I signed up to Slugger fully expecting that I’d be at odds with many of the posts, but surprise, surprise here I’m more or less in agreement with much of the above. My dominant political gene is Ulster Unionist but little by little that party’s chronic performance, latent infighting and lack-luster candidates have caused a mutation. However not, as you might expect, into a Dupper – far too many skeletons in that cupboard. Or into a nationalist per se – though I do have both British and Irish passports (on the pragmatic grounds that holders of the latter get a much better reception in most parts of the world, and the DFA beats the FCO hands down in the handling of distressed citizens abroad). Like a lot of my well set-up Prod friends I can’t see myself voting for Unity in any referendum (or for the SDLP or, especially, SF for that matter in any election) – but that doesn’t mean we have a visceral objection to a democratic end of Partition. Just let’s see how things develop. In the immediate future Alliance looks like my vote’s default destination, albeit with a tinge of regret that I’ve reached this point due to the ‘accidents’ of others rather than my own design. In the longer term, who knows?
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