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A poem for the day – Launching the Whaler Juan Peron
A Belfast epic, and one of my oldest poems, the opener of my first collection, Grub. The gist of the story was found in Moss & Hume’s Shipbuilders to the World: 125 Years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast, 1861-1986, which tells how Eva Peron was due to launch a huge whaling vessel in Belfast, built [...] 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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“You can see Newton’s mind at work…”
To add to the open access treasure trove at the Royal Society, Cambridge University Library is putting online some of its collection of books, maps, manuscripts and journals. We have called the first phase of our work on the Cambridge Digital Library the Foundations Project, which runs from mid-2010 to mid-2013 and has been made possible [...] read our review »
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Comment on Nothing to stop the election being fun
on 18 April 2010 at 3:59 am
I think you guys need to spend some time with the teenagers on 4chan to see how to subvert digital media.
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Comment on Money isn’t everything…
on 8 April 2010 at 1:49 am
“really, so who deferred water charges? or froze the regional rates or kept business rates down? who introduced free prescriptions.”
The treasury?
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Comment on Archbishop Williams speaks clearly this time
on 4 April 2010 at 1:26 am
We’ll take your angry misogynists but not your opinions on our pedos?
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Comment on “Help, help, I’m being repressed”
on 29 March 2010 at 4:28 am
I’m not really up for an arguement.
Just calling it as I see it Pete
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Comment on “Help, help, I’m being repressed”
on 28 March 2010 at 9:58 pm
None at all Pete.
Just repeating your own question when another blogger posted a vid with a primate/orangeman/chocolate bar.
What were you thinking?
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Comment on “Help, help, I’m being repressed”
on 28 March 2010 at 2:23 am
what were you thinking?
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Comment on “The Friendly Sons can go outside if they want to smoke”
on 11 March 2010 at 2:50 am
This is like Tammany Hall all over again, good man yourself Pete for bringing this to our attention.
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Comment on Early start for sectarianism in Stoneyford
on 6 March 2010 at 4:16 am
Chavs will be chavs
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Comment on Throw money at the PMS: DUP cloud cover strategy?
on 5 February 2010 at 5:26 am
“Nobody want to see savers wiped out so if the DUP can do something bout it they should. ”
They aint savers, they are investors.
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Comment on Look not to Derry but Lower Ormeau, Clifton Park and Garvaghy for model solutions
on 27 January 2010 at 2:26 am
I probably should have added that it’s hilarious that you use a turn of phrase like
“Local godfathers decide who can live there, who can do business there as well as who can pass through. It’s a form of self-imposed apartheid.”
when anyone with even a passing interest in the OO, would tell you that they were a bunch of agrarian boot boys who decided who can live there, who can do business there as well as who can pass through.
Not some lofty battlefield survivors with an eternal pledge of brotherhood, simply one half of a two sided culchie punch up over keeping themuns out of the best farming land.
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