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“Unionism Decayed 1997-2007″ by David Vance: book review
I initially wrote this when the book was first published three years ago; whilst certain elements of it now sound dated, its basic premise that the period of 1997-2007 was a period of irreversible decay for Northern Irish Unionism can still be argued as a valid opinion. My own feeling is that it did indeed [...] read our review » -
Have we Learned our own Lessons? Book Review of John Brewer’s Peace Processes
Northern Ireland’s peace process has been promoted as an international success story. The Republic’s Department of Foreign Affairs has its Conflict Resolution Unit, which aims to disseminate the ‘lessons’ of the Northern Ireland peace process. And some of the prominent players in our peace process have travelled abroad to other troubled spots to share their [...] 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 Long to Reign Over Us.
on 6 February 2012 at 1:18 pm
I never stop laughing at Unionists subservience to an unelected monarch.
Get off you bellies, you serfs!
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Comment on Shifting ground in the land of dreary steeples
on 29 January 2012 at 7:54 pm
He was waiting for the black & tans to arrive for the half time entertainment!
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Comment on “Recently the two Governments agreed to address issues relating to both Lough Foyle and Carlingford Lough in the round”
on 26 January 2012 at 6:13 pm
“So are they British salmon or Irish Salmon now?
What if they spawn on one side and grow up on the other?”
More importantly what football do the play for and are the FAI going to poach them??
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Comment on Another Post on Scotland…..
on 16 January 2012 at 12:54 pm
HTB
“So by the same measure, if Fermanagh, Armagh, Derry or Tyrone wished to leave the UK then this decision should be honoured by the UK government?
Or is choice a one way (blue white and red) street?”
Or simply Tyrone & Fermanagh in the 1920′s?
Unionists want the current borders of NI respected when they say so, or it suits them. They have an issue with democracy, they think it means “Protestant majority rule”.
Proof, if ever it were needed, that NI is simply a land grab, not a state
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Comment on Another Post on Scotland…..
on 15 January 2012 at 10:24 pm
“If, say, Strathclyde or the Lowlands prefer to remain in the UK then that decision should be honoured by a partition of Scotland.”
Is this a policy that any (NI) Unionists would agree with?
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Comment on Another Post on Scotland…..
on 15 January 2012 at 8:03 pm
“Yeah, because it’s inconceivable that any Irish nationalist would ever write a letter to a newspaper, or otherwise comment, on politics within the UK.”
They could indeed, but they would also welcome a UK wide referendum on NI’s place within the UK. Would you?
“And what’s your position on Welsh nationalists commenting on Scottish politics?”
None
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Comment on Another Post on Scotland…..
on 15 January 2012 at 7:17 pm
I find it ironic that Ulster Unionists insist that they and they alone should decide NI’s place within the UK ie it is not the business of English,Scottish or Welsh voters to have any say on the matter (just to fund Ulstertopia)
And now suddenly they are insisting on having a say on Scotland’s place within the UK.
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Comment on Gay Mitchell is a Presidential candidate
on 4 October 2011 at 10:37 pm
He gave them all a good grilling.
Except for Gay Mitchell. Who hung himself…
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Comment on Where have all Sinn Fein’s TD donations gone?
on 20 September 2011 at 10:12 pm
What a dreadful attempt at Shinner bashing
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Comment on Ireland debt = Junk
on 13 July 2011 at 5:06 pm
How’s Northern Ireland’s credit ratings doing these days??
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