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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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What has The Third Man got to say about Northern Ireland?
Short answer: very little, other than he enjoyed the environs of Hillsborough Castle, enjoyed working with the local politicians, and has Gerry Adams to thank for Bobby his dog. Peter Mandelson’s book The Third Man has captured media headlines in recent weeks as the Times serialised the most juicy bits. But what did he have [...] read our review »
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Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation. A book about how things are changing.
Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland is a new academic tome by lecturer and researcher Lee Smithey. In the book the Pennsylvania academic outlines his findings based on 67 interviews over eighteen months with grassroots activists in unionist and loyalist communities and organisations. This is largely a book about men, even though they [...] read our review »
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Comment on Licence fee freeze leads BBC NI slashes top journalist jobs…
on 10 May 2012 at 3:38 pm
I agree with the Nolan show being a bit tabloidy and should try to maintain the real journalists at Nolan’s expense top some degree. While I still like listening to him, I’m beginning to predict the format:
Flag news story / irish language story followed by DUP/SF sectarian bun fight
Regional pay debate or Public/private sector shouting match between Bumper Graham on the left and Katie Hopkins on the right
The umpteenth reincarnation of the mob rule justice of ‘should special laws be introduced to deal with ppl who attack pensioners’
usual dog dirt/wheelie bin/ X gives you cancer blah blah blah…
He asks good questions but the format is designed to antagonise from the outset and get irate callers ringing up spouting some unresearched garbage.
Anyway, for anyone who listens to him on five live he puts on a totally different act, he even talks differently.
I remember recently listening to BNP leader Nick Griffin on his show and actually found myself agreeign with him in that he said “The reason he do better was that Peter Robinson spooked unionists to vote DUP or McGuinness would become first minister.” to which Nolan responded: “No way, the NI electorate are independent minded people who cast their considered vote accordingly….” Have you ever heard such bollocks?!! We know we are the least independent voters!! That’s a given. He was just trying to protect the listeners from being told they might be a bit stupid.
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Comment on I don’t what she said, but I support my Prime Minister, whatever it was she said…
on 27 April 2012 at 11:55 am
# by a DUP member
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Comment on I don’t what she said, but I support my Prime Minister, whatever it was she said…
on 27 April 2012 at 11:55 am
Only Sinn fein of yesteryear?
Same goes for the DUP too. I’m racking my brains for a single dissenting view my a DUP member on anything.
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Comment on “Such arrangements are commonplace in cross-border rail operations across Europe.”
on 18 April 2012 at 9:52 pm
Awww c’mon!!! No takers for my ticket?!
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Comment on “Such arrangements are commonplace in cross-border rail operations across Europe.”
on 17 April 2012 at 6:31 pm
I always find trying to get Ireland tickets a nightmare. I’m going to the Spain – Ireland game in Gdansk and managed to wheel and deal four tickets from my spanish friend who’s a member of the spanish football federation but can’t go coz it’s his dad’s 60th.
Indicientally he accidently ordered (and got) four when I only wanted three so I have a spare if anyone’s interested.
Also, what is anyone doing for accommodation?
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Comment on Orange Order trials new sponsored uniform?
on 13 April 2012 at 5:28 pm
orange order would never go for this. It looks too sophisticated and tasteful.
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Comment on University of Ulster: “part of China’s overseas propaganda set-up”
on 13 April 2012 at 11:30 am
internet#
average chinese##
i really should proof-read these sometimes
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Comment on University of Ulster: “part of China’s overseas propaganda set-up”
on 13 April 2012 at 11:27 am
Some great points so far.
It will remain a moral dilemna how to deal with China: Be principled and watch the next guy get a lucrative trade deal, or sell out everything you supposedly believe in.
In relation to our own politicians I can’t imagine either McGuinness or Robinson having the nerve to get on any moral highground given their backgrounds. Indeed, how could any DUP man call for human rights in another country, when they set their face against denying them to a third of the population here?
Lamhdearg gets at the nub: What country has a whiter than white history to speak of? Whether it’s a country with a stark anti-semitic or racist past which has shown remorse, or a present day superpower engaging in unilateralism (how many civilain rights did the US respect in Iraq? Or by the camps at guantanamo?
The final point I think should be discussed is the most important i think: Every time a Chinese delegate is making a visit we (justly) get a call from Patrick and others to bring them to bear for what is going on. Maybe its just their size but all those diplomats and leaders from Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia etc. have never had too much pressure put on them. In fact, when taken with Libya and tunisia ~(not Saudi obviously) these regimes were toppled only by their own people taking a stand (interent helps I suppose) despite the inevitable brutal crackdown. Won’t it take a more robust organisation of the people to bring about change rather than external groups poking their noses in? I also wonder if for the ever chinese, until it is they who are locked up or on death row, they are quite pleased by the economic juggernaut they have helped create and watch with glee as these western leaders eat out of their hands and cow tow to them like this. While I do meet chinese abroad who do mention the lack of openness in their country, they never seem particularlywound up by it and are if anything quite defensive of it when shove comes to push. Just putting out there that this is much more complicated and grey than we sometimes like to imagine
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Comment on That was the ‘Rangers Tax Case Blog’, now for the film or the book?
on 29 March 2012 at 3:39 pm
Is there a ‘succulent lamb’ equivalent for bloggers who reveal their identity when the benefits accrued are prizes on offer?
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Comment on Doctored twitter, Toolooz and RTÉ
on 29 March 2012 at 3:13 pm
I don’t suppose you’re any relation to Colin Belton are you?
He’s an Imperial College physicist.
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