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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 Sinn Fein about to breach the DUP’s defences?
on 1 February 2010 at 5:55 pm
Is anyone covering the large number of people that walked away when McGuinness began to use his Bloody Sunday speech for SF party propagandising? The SF hijacking of the commemorations is nothing new, but the willingness of significant numbers of people to turn their backs and walk away from our Marty certainly is…
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Comment on That officers meeting still going on….
on 9 January 2010 at 2:16 am
I’d love to think that the DUP was making great progressive strides and all that, but surely they haven’t turned to Duncan Morrow (CEO of the Community Relations Council) in their hour of need ??!!
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Comment on How can Shaun Woodward speak of possible success being just around the corner?
on 6 January 2010 at 3:07 pm
Sorry if I am being indelicate but is there something that is being left very much unsaid about the FM’s absence? Are things a lot worse at home than has been suggested, or is there something else at play? Genuine sympathies for any personal trauma but the vacuum of information, or the agreement to put such into the public domain, can only erode goodwill and empathy at a wider level. We have all experienced times when our domestic presence is imperative, but we still let the office etc know what/where we are at…
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