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Of the Old North and other Vanished Kingdoms..
I’m currently trawling through Norman Davies’s fabulous new tome – “Vanished Kingdoms” – Five stars in the (London) Telegraph’s review from Ben Wilson: All the nations that have ever lived have left their footsteps in the sand,” writes Norman Davies. “The traces fade with every tide, the echoes grow faint, the images are fractured, the human [...] read our review » -
Do Words Matter?: Book Review of Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution – Debating Peace in Northern Ireland
I share many of the concerns of Andy Pollak, whose recent post ‘My Response to the Slugger Begrudgers’ zeroed in on the ‘relentless flow of negativity’ of some Slugger commentators. Pollak’s post was largely concerned with the medium of the blog. Indeed, I think the anonymity of the online world encourages extreme discourse and allows [...] 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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Comment on “Behind the scenes a lot of work has been taking place..”
on 22 February 2009 at 4:14 pm
to nevin. ….nice dig at foster over the causeway debacle. the whole kelvin business was needlessly drwn out by civil servants trying to repeat the sixties stitchup over the nuu site. foster has really put both feet in it since, if it was really immaterial where the t.h. was situated, why did she earlier make a point of congratulating the coleraine backers.
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Comment on Sammy, the misunderstood genius…
on 21 February 2009 at 9:02 pm
to comrade stalin…. dup; democratic untestable party????? more like detestable and unfit party. the reason for all the indiscipline in the ranks, ie sammy wilson’s nonsense is that if robinson was ever capable of leading that lot, he wouldn’t have waited 29 years to take over. nieloran95
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Comment on ‘Ouch’…
on 21 February 2009 at 8:02 pm
to joecanuck…… in the case of rhonda paisley, it wasn’t so much of a shock compared to any other n.i. party as the dup is a more rigid setup than even the soviet politburo.
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