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Legion of the Rearguard – Dissident Irish Republicanism by Martyn Frampton, Book Review
Are you confused about ‘dissident’ Irish Republicanism? Anxious about its existence and its seemingly increasingly deadly capabilities? Martyn Frampton’s new book, Legion of the Rearguard: Dissident Irish Republicanism (Irish Academic Press, 2011) serves both as a primer on active dissident groups and a timely analysis of their historic significance and contemporary capabilities. This book clears [...] read our review »
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A Political History of the Two Irelands competition…
It’s not often we get free things to give away to our readers, but courtesy of Palgrave Macmillan we have a nice paperback copy of Brian M Walker’s excellent history of partition of the island and how identities shifted in both the north east and the south and west: as most of the territory that [...] read our review »
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The peace process not such a good model after all
Which reminds me…. Platform for Change’s driving force Robin Wilson has produced a corrective to the notion that the lessons of the NI conflict are easily exportable. Like myself, Robin is associated with the Constitution Unit. He introduced his new book in a CU blog which I here reproduce. The water crisis in Northern Ireland [...] read our review »
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Comment on Northern Ireland’s sport neuralgia continues…
on 23 August 2011 at 6:48 pm
Mike The First
Just to be pedantic, John Clarke has left the Down panel.
Mick,
I’m gonna guess, Saintfield?
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Comment on Orange ratchet up tension in Portadown with Drumcree march breach
on 29 July 2011 at 1:44 am
@between the bridges
Google: ‘sinn’ ‘fein’ ‘illegal’ ‘parade’
Clever.
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Comment on Championship season gets into gear
on 22 May 2011 at 5:25 pm
Refreshing to see some cutting edge analysis on the season and the sport as a whole from the Slugger posters…
Any real opinions on or predictions for this year’s Championship or is it all just bitter political sloganism?
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Comment on McGeough sentenced to 20 years for attempted murder
on 7 April 2011 at 4:07 am
Driftwood – ‘I think he meant to say ‘terrorists’ or ‘republicans’ but got confused.’
Easy mistake. Catholic-republican-terrorist – it’s all the same sure.
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Comment on Flag wars over St Patrick’s Day in Downpatrick
on 17 March 2011 at 3:06 am
The national flag of Ireland flying on an Irish national holiday?
The world has gone mad.
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Comment on Photograph of the day – with a little help from my friends
on 13 November 2010 at 8:44 pm
They’re clearly going on the lash tonight – the doll in the blue is carrying some size of a carryout.
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Comment on “One of the mantras of the peace process is that ‘dissident’ republicans have no support…”
on 7 October 2010 at 11:29 am
Blair says:
‘I hear you. One of the most disturbing things about republicanism has been its ability to attract educated young thugs. We get a glimpse of them on St Patrick’s day in the Holylands every year.’ (6 October 2010 at 9:53 pm)
Nonsense.
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Comment on “One of the mantras of the peace process is that ‘dissident’ republicans have no support…”
on 7 October 2010 at 11:21 am
Very very true, slug
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Comment on Photograph of the Day – Seriously though, where is the respect?
on 13 September 2010 at 12:01 am
True that!
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Comment on Thy Kingdom Come
on 31 August 2010 at 1:04 pm
The pride in the county is unbelievable at the minute and it’s great to see the flags going up (although not staying up for long in some cases), but i wonder how many Down fans who braved the cold to travel to the League matches etc will get tickets for the final? The bandwagon is fairly filling up.
And on a side note – Danny Hughes rather than Marty Clarke deserved MOTM for Sunday’s game.
Anyways, to end on a happy note – DDLF – Down Don’t Lose Finals. An Dún Abú
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