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Against Remembrance – Seminar & Book by David Rieff
Is the best way to overcome the legacy of conflict simply to forget about it? Author and journalist David Rieff spoke on this subject last week in a seminar at the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) at Trinity College Dublin. Rieff has recently written a book titled, Against Remembrance (published in Ireland by Liffey [...] read our review »
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Children of the Revolution (Bill Rolston)
What was life like for children of political activists during the Troubles? A new book by Bill Rolston and published by Guildhall Press during the summer has collected together the stories of twenty Children of the Revolution whose parents’ activities – and in many cases, imprisonment – had a significant affect on childhoods and life [...] read our review »
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Debating the Churches’ Role in the Peace in Northern Ireland
This morning’s Sunday Sequence featured a substantial debate (about 35 minutes into the recorded programme) on a new book,Religion, Civil Society and Peace in Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press 2011), written by sociologists John Brewer, Gareth Higgins and Francis Teeney. The debate was framed in an opening vignette by presenter William Crawley in uncompromising terms, [...] read our review »
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Comment on Leinster would probably win 9 times out of 10, but…
on 19 May 2012 at 5:51 pm
Wonderful kick at an important time.
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Comment on Ian Junior claimed £10,000 in postage in his six last months in office…
on 15 May 2012 at 7:28 pm
“To take away £10,000 of stamped envelopes…”
Is that how it works? You just ask for stamped envelopes? Daft process if that’s the case.
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Comment on Ian Junior claimed £10,000 in postage in his six last months in office…
on 14 May 2012 at 11:55 am
How does it work? I presume there’s a franking machine which records transactions?
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Comment on Scotland – choose your narrative.
on 10 May 2012 at 11:59 pm
“Dewi,
When all else fails, let’s resort to what we know…
If we look at the council elections only, the SNP (27.9) have gone from being .2% behind Labour (28.1) in 2007 council elections to a 2.5% lead in 2012, that is: 34.7% to 32.2%.
If we stop there, as you would clearly like us to, then that is an SNP win. Not much of a one, but a win nonetheless.”
Yes – a win – thank you. A pretty historic win in fact. The first time in world history that the SNP have won both more votes and seats than Labour. I really don’t mind any other analysis to be honest – it’s a dishonest starting point that fucks me off.
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Comment on Scotland – choose your narrative.
on 10 May 2012 at 12:29 am
Yeah Mick – a narrative. A nationalist narrative is that that we fought for Glasgow and didn’t make it – should we have not bothered? The explanation is that Scottish Labour is about as thrawn as you can can get…..but you never beat them by not trying..
But by any analysis apart from that of the Unionist Media (BBC Scotsman etc) the SNP won the election.
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Comment on Scotland – choose your narrative.
on 9 May 2012 at 8:53 pm
“And it’s worth mentioning that the SNP did see off the ‘red tide’ that Dewi mentioned in a previous post.”
Yes – FFS!
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Comment on Scotland – choose your narrative.
on 9 May 2012 at 12:22 am
Nope – the first one on Scotland – quoting various marginal Unionist scaremongers – not really balanced Pete.
I don’t claim personal balance myself – my sympathies are no particular secret – why claim balance yourself?
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Comment on Scotland – choose your narrative.
on 9 May 2012 at 12:10 am
OK:
http://sluggerotoole.com/2012/03/19/the-last-thing-the-northern-isles-want-is-to-be-ruled-by-glasgow-trade-unionists-and-edinburgh-lawyers/#comments
Uncritical bullshit.
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Comment on Scotland – choose your narrative.
on 8 May 2012 at 11:42 pm
“Peddling of old, long-rehearsed prejudices apart, I’d settle for the unsigned editorial in The Scotsman:”
Not perhaps ready yet to lose my prejudice against the North Briton..
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Comment on Scotland – choose your narrative.
on 8 May 2012 at 11:40 pm
Malcolm @ 10.04 – precisely! – the BBC didn’t do that this time – astonishing.
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Comment on Scotland – choose your narrative.
on 8 May 2012 at 11:33 pm
“What exactly is the point in quoting, uncritically, Alex Salmond’s view of the SNP’s performance in these local elections?”
Because everyone else pushes, uncritically (is that a word?), the biased Unionist narrative, which is what you ain’t bad at yourself.
The “facts” of the Scottish election results have been presented in an appallingly biased fashion in virtually all the media.
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Comment on Scotland – choose your narrative.
on 8 May 2012 at 9:49 pm
lam – it’s worth following Rangerstaxcase for the whole tale.
http://rangerstaxcase.wordpress.com/
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Comment on The red tide returns – Labour win big in Wales.
on 7 May 2012 at 5:39 pm
Mi niece tells me that we got beat by a dancing dog. A. dancing. dog.
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Comment on The red tide returns – Labour win big in Wales.
on 7 May 2012 at 1:49 am
just watched on you tube DR- did they win?
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Comment on The red tide returns – Labour win big in Wales.
on 6 May 2012 at 12:30 pm
I know we are drowning in wonderful pedantry Malcolm but it’s a Scottish Parliament
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Comment on The red tide returns – Labour win big in Wales.
on 6 May 2012 at 11:33 am
Ahh Malcolm – it’s you who are being devious – you can’t compare swings from a Parliamentary election to council elections. For starters you have piles of independents standing !!!
The “largest share..in history” obviously referred to a larger share than labour in local elections for the first time.
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Comment on The red tide returns – Labour win big in Wales.
on 6 May 2012 at 10:50 am
First preferences in Scotland according to SNP:
SNP 32.7%, Labour 31.5%.
http://www.newsnetscotland.com/index.php/scottish-politics/4907-salmond-hails-best-ever-result-as-snp-records-election-hat-trick-hat-trick
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Comment on The red tide returns – Labour win big in Wales.
on 6 May 2012 at 12:21 am
http://www.gerryhassan.com/blog/the-glasgow-effect-and-the-strange-state-of-scottish-democracy/#more-2315
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Comment on The red tide returns – Labour win big in Wales.
on 5 May 2012 at 7:40 pm
“Won” means most councillors as always (or most MPs, TDs etc) with a winning margin of 30 seats.
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Comment on The red tide returns – Labour win big in Wales.
on 5 May 2012 at 5:09 pm
malcolm – the SNP won in Scotland.
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