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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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The ANC, the IRA and the rise of influence of the left within Sinn Fein…
World by Storm has a nice piece up on the IRA’s role in helping MK, the armed wing of the ANC, in the 1980s. In particular he sees a strange alchemy at work there: …if one can think of a clearly legitimate contemporary struggle it was that against apartheid and it is to the credit [...] read our review »
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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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Comment on 100th Anniversary Titanic Commemoration Service
on 16 April 2012 at 9:08 am
built by Irishmen…….sailed by Englishmen” “Built in Belfast…..it was ok when it left here”
I’m not sure about that fitzjameshorse1745. According to this article in the New York Times in wasn’t OK when it left Belfast! Sub standard materials were used and this led to the Titanic sinking more quickly than it should have done!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/science/15titanic.html?pagewanted=all
I’m from Southampton and we lost a lot of people in the disaster, mainly crew! 600 in fact!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/southampton-titanic-service-to-honour-lost-786585
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Comment on “Time for the beginning of a calm debate” on Northern Ireland’s Demographics
on 4 January 2012 at 4:46 pm
“Or how to respond to an application from the UK to join the constitutionally more advanced Republic”
If Scotland declares independence there won’t be a UK to join! In any case there is no way that England would want to join or be accepted by the Republic.
Scotland Wales and N.Ireland? That’s a different matter. Some sort of celtic union might be acceptable to the Republic I suppose. Not that it’s anything to do with an English nationalist like me.
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Comment on “Time for the beginning of a calm debate” on Northern Ireland’s Demographics
on 4 January 2012 at 4:23 pm
“A recurring elephant in the room, on both sides of the debate, is NI’s current £7billion subvention required from London. This could easily stimulate London’s interest in jettisoning this permanent debt overhang”
I think many English people would be more than glad to sever links with N.Ireland and the rest of the UK John. Hopefully Scotland will vote YES to independence in 2014.
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Comment on Does Tory eurosceptics’ nationalism boost UK breakup chances?
on 13 December 2011 at 4:15 pm
English nationalism? What’s this got to do with English nationalism? David Cameron is a British nationalist and a unionist through and through.
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