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Hearing the Other Voice from the Grave: Why Should we Listen to David Ervine’s Stories?
Ed Moloney’s Voices from the Grave: Two Men’s War in Ireland has received considerable attention in the press and in the public realm since its publication earlier this year. Although the book relates the experiences of the Provisional IRA’s Brendan Hughes and the PUP/UVF’s David Ervine, much of the discussion has focused on Hughes’ stories [...] read our review » -
Lessons in Cute Hoorism: “Graft was accepted, for you were taking from the British…”
I’ve been catching up on some reading, recently. Most pleasantly surprised by John Drennan’s latest opus from Gill and Macmillan, Cute Hoors and Pious Protestors… It’s early days yet, but I was struck by this paragraph, part of a dissection of Fianna Fail near the beginning: One of the more fatal consequences of our colonial [...] read our review »
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John Laird for Christmas?
John Laird (Lord Laird of Artigarvan) is unionism’s jester. His memoir A Struggle To Be Heard ” by a True Ulster Liberal” (from Slugger’s shop on Amazon here) might serve more as a heavy stocking filler than anybody’s idea of a main present. In it he wears the masks of comedy and tragedy to turn the [...] read our review »
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Comment on “Sample exchange from Stalker O’Toole yesterday”
on 11 April 2010 at 3:14 am
I had assumed that Brian/Biff2 @ #8 was Squinter himself?
I then snorted appreciatively at old schools description @ #17 of Gerry Adams as the Irish Hamid Karzai.
A very perceptive evocation of the equivalence between Gerry & Hamid. A fine pair of marionettes.
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Comment on West Belfast, social depravation and that fouled-up-in-the-works poverty strategy…
on 9 April 2010 at 12:01 am
Considering the views of both Pip and Munster at the moment.
Most of what has been said falls under social policy.
I don’t have an answer despite the fact that I agre with both to an extent.
I was born of Irish parents into an English council estate. Am degree educated despite my upbringing.
I could develop an argument about West Belfast because Gerry is a poor MP and doesn’t go to parliament but Attwood is piss poor. West Belfast deserves to be represented.
So
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Comment on Money isn’t everything…
on 8 April 2010 at 8:23 pm
The last comment says it all….
Fucked á L’orange !
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Comment on South Antrim report: The most marginal of them all?
on 8 April 2010 at 8:16 pm
@ NMCNSA Post 17.
Don’t be disingenuous. We got the insinuation and yes it will come out in the wash.
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Comment on The Election Speculation Game: Where will the Traditional Unionist Voice be heard the loudest?
on 8 April 2010 at 8:04 pm
The traditional Ulster Unionist voice in Limavady equates pretty much with Willie Ross’s former vote. They are highly likely to give him their vote even if he is now standing as TUV. He is well liked in a kind of staunch no surrender way and given that GC is a hateful so and so I would not write Willy off. I do concede the point that he has no profile in Coleraine.
The constituency though has all the hallmarks of a South Belfast ( albeit a shinner rather than an SDLP win) as the Shinners are very strong there particularly in Dungiven and its environs.
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Comment on The Election Speculation Game: Where will the Traditional Unionist Voice be heard the loudest?
on 8 April 2010 at 6:53 pm
@fretjumper
It’s a little bit of all of that you have mentioned and it’s still a fertile furrow (albeit a self defeating one).
The return of Willie Ross in East Londonderry pretty much answers your question.
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Comment on West Belfast, social depravation and that fouled-up-in-the-works poverty strategy…
on 7 April 2010 at 6:06 pm
Sinn Fein have reached their voting high watermark. The only way forward is to end abstentionism as espoused by Bernadette Devlin in 1969. Core SDLP voters like to be represented in Parliament… SIMPLES !
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Comment on Chris Grayling adopts the Adrian Watson policy position…
on 7 April 2010 at 5:32 pm
@driftwood. Cheers !
I will be sidling into Ladbrokes at some stage before they get wind of the local market !!!
I stuck a few euro on Bertie to be next Irish President last year with Paddy Power at strangely long odds……
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Comment on Nationalists appeal to BBC Trust on debates.
on 6 April 2010 at 4:02 am
One small caveat Chekov…..
Surely by a further extrapolation of your logic the Liberal Democrats should not be involved either?
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Comment on Chris Grayling adopts the Adrian Watson policy position…
on 6 April 2010 at 12:11 am
At the end of the day I suppose that a gay couple of whatever sex who came upon the Watson’s particularly hostile “GuestHouse” will have turned their noses up and looked elsewhere but more seriously I do think that so long as there is a nod and a wink that for religious or moral or political grounds it is okay to discriminate on sexual or racial grounds then there will be those who do not need a great deal of tempting to take the law into their own hands. I will give you one singular vignette as to how a gay man who I knew well suffered as a result of his orientation.
He was and still is a bit of a flirt and fond of a bit of the kind of furtive one off sexual encounters that straight and gay people might indulge in after a nights drinking in Belfast city centre. He was lured from a bar on a promise by somebody that he had taken a shine to and went back to a house in the holyland. On going inside he was subjected to the mother and father of assualts by a number of men who beat him to a pulp and only through a bit of luck and escaping over a wall into Botanic Gardens did he get away. Having lost consciousness he found his way to the city hospital in the early hours where he spent the next fortnight. Fractured skull, two fractured cheekbones, most teeth lost, broken wrist,lacerations and bruising all over.Those people planned to pick up a gay man and potentially kill him for there own perverted reasons which to my mind go beyond any perceived perversion that might go on between two lovers of the same sex in the privacy of a guest house room.
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