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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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The nod and wink politics of Ireland’s last two or three decades as practised par excellence by Bertie, Albert and Charlie is ultimately what has the Republic in the stew it’s in. Don’t get me wrong, the effective monitoring of those exercising of power does not demand full disclosure of everything all the time. But [...] read our review »
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The Written World
Here’s something to keep you occupied over the weekend. [Will there be a quiz? - Ed] Possibly… The BBC magazine has an short and interesting, but un-embeddable, audio slide-show of Melvyn Bragg’s Radio 4 five-parter, In Our Time: The Written World. The British Library has more online information about the texts and technology featured in each [...] read our review »
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Comment on Martin McGuinness and aggressive lecturing
on 9 March 2010 at 4:22 am
UlsterScotty,
DUP and SF have agreed a CSI strategy and it has been sent to the departments for consultation.
It will then go to the OFDFM committee and published for public consultation.
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Comment on Martin McGuinness and aggressive lecturing
on 9 March 2010 at 4:19 am
Intelligent Insider,
How can you say nothing has changed since points (2) and (3) happened in the couple of days before Alliance agreed to nominate a candidate?
as for point (1), this is from August 2008
http://allianceparty.org/news/003929/ford_says_justice_proposals_are_unworkable.html
“Apparently all the DUP and Sinn Fein have proposed is a Minister who would not even be a member of the Executive. How could anyone fulfil a role as important as Justice Minister in those circumstances?”
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Comment on Martin McGuinness and aggressive lecturing
on 9 March 2010 at 3:55 am
FJH,
Your enemy/rival analogy might work with the FPTP system in the General Election but votes get transferred from and to enemies when STV is used.
The only thing splitting unionism will do for SF is to make it the biggest party in the Assembly. Ironically, this is the last thing SF should want as the Assembly will collapse until the unionists change from their “We’ll power share as long as we’re the First Minister” stance.
This would then lead to suspension, which is the last thing SF wants.
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Comment on Martin McGuinness and aggressive lecturing
on 9 March 2010 at 3:35 am
correction:
2) There has been movement with the Shared Future strategy. Ok, we don’t know what it is yet but it’s moved further in the *past* couple of weeks than what it has in the past 12 years.
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Comment on Martin McGuinness and aggressive lecturing
on 9 March 2010 at 3:33 am
Intelligent Insider,
1) The minister will be a full member of the executive
2) There has been movement with the Shared Future strategy. Ok, we don’t know what it is yet but it’s moved further in the bast couple of weeks than what it has in the past 12 years.
3) Assurances on policies for the Department of Justice.
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Comment on “Alliance looks forward to examining this document in detail…”
on 24 February 2010 at 5:42 am
I wouldn’t say the Executive is being by-passed.
The document was held up because of disagreements between Sinn fein and the DUP so this is a big step in the process.
The next step is to get Executive agreement which might or might not be a formality.
The SDLP don’t seem to be too worried about it not having Executive approval yet…
SDLP assembly member Alex Attwood said he welcomed “any progress made to create a shared society, promoting good relations and deepening understanding between communities”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8532471.stm
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Comment on “Alliance looks forward to examining this document in detail…”
on 24 February 2010 at 5:16 am
Pete,
Looks like the rest of the Executive have not seen it but they will and it will be published for public consultation
“The Cohesion, Sharing and Integration strategy had been delayed for around two years and will now be circulated to other Ministers in the Executive.”
“We now have a document agreed by both DUP and Sinn Fein which should shortly go out for public consultation. This is a positive step forward for everyone in Northern Ireland.
Alliance looks forward to examining this document in detail. We will be making suggestions during the consultation process and when it comes to Committee.”
http://allianceparty.org/news/004997/ford_welcomes_robinson_and_mcguinness_community_relations_breakthrough.html
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Comment on We’re back!
on 11 February 2010 at 12:59 am
Understand Paul, I’ve used WordPress a lot and it should be a lot less stressful on resources.
It doesn’t allow a fada in the username but does allow them in your first, last, nick and display names.
I just tested it and tést is stored as tst if used as a username. There’s no warning and the username can’t be changed without manually changing it in the database.
There *may* be a plugin to enable username changes.
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Comment on We’re back!
on 9 February 2010 at 4:55 am
You seriously pay that? There’s cheaper options than that!
Sorry, couldn’t help looking them up.
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