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Lessons in Cute Hoorism: “Graft was accepted, for you were taking from the British…”
I’ve been catching up on some reading, recently. Most pleasantly surprised by John Drennan’s latest opus from Gill and Macmillan, Cute Hoors and Pious Protestors… It’s early days yet, but I was struck by this paragraph, part of a dissection of Fianna Fail near the beginning: One of the more fatal consequences of our colonial [...] read our review »
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Legion of the Rearguard – Dissident Irish Republicanism by Martyn Frampton, Book Review
Are you confused about ‘dissident’ Irish Republicanism? Anxious about its existence and its seemingly increasingly deadly capabilities? Martyn Frampton’s new book, Legion of the Rearguard: Dissident Irish Republicanism (Irish Academic Press, 2011) serves both as a primer on active dissident groups and a timely analysis of their historic significance and contemporary capabilities. This book clears [...] read our review »
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Is Fianna Fail the new Woolworths of Irish politics?
It’s not published until 3rd March, but one book I recommend you place an advance order for from Slugger’s Bookstore is James Harkin’s Niche. Belfast émigré Harkin examines a number of stories from business, culture and politics and comes to a single insight: everywhere the broad middle is collapsing. He offers Woolworths as an iconic exemplar [...] read our review »
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Comment on Great. British team beat Irish. Royals rampant. GAA (mostly) delighted.
on 26 June 2011 at 6:47 pm
Daniel,
I’ve been trying it for ages – you can get The Sunday Game on RTÉ Player but only the following Sunday when you know all the results and couldn’t really be bothered watching it any more…
The best place to go is an O’Neill’s or some Irish bar.
You can listen to them on RTÉ radio usually – they don’t geoblock their radio streams.
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Comment on Ireland 2, Italy 0…
on 8 June 2011 at 10:30 pm
Mick, if your Ballymenaman comment was about Martin O’Neill, he’s from Kilrea in South Derry – I think he might even have been on the Derry minor panel at some point.
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Comment on Queen’s fears raise stakes in the Scottish game
on 30 May 2011 at 9:39 pm
otto, a black card is less severe than a yellow card (I assume Mick is following the GAA on this one).
Wait, why on earth do I have one?! I hardly ever comment here!
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Comment on Pan Unionist maneouvre thwarted
on 24 May 2011 at 9:44 pm
Haha. Well done Alliance.
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Comment on Championship season gets into gear
on 22 May 2011 at 3:01 pm
Please some success for Derry this year
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Comment on We’re here!
on 17 June 2010 at 9:20 am
Don’t know if this has been requested already but can we have an option to remember us when we log in? I always forget to log in and having to re-enter my details every time I visit the site is a bit of a pain.
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Comment on Horseman RIP…
on 16 June 2010 at 9:57 am
Very sad – really enjoyed his blog.
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Comment on There was one thing worse than Antrim’s performance…
on 6 June 2010 at 10:35 pm
I saw the Palestine flags at Casement Park today – I also saw at least one at Markievicz Park during the Sligo – Mayo game yesterday. Good to see the support isn’t fading.
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Comment on Some thoughts on collusion (Part 2)
on 2 June 2010 at 9:03 am
I couldn’t read beyond this bit in your first paragraph:
“It is feared that the problems around collusion will detract from the clear high moral ground which unionists (and constitutional nationalists) hold over republicanism”
You’ve got to be kidding, right? They may not have physically planted any bombs or killed any people, they just got the RUC/B-men/UDR/British Army to do their dirty work for them.
There will be no moving forward until everyone (INCLUDING Unionists) get off their high horse and admit collective responsibility for what happened.
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Comment on Should nationalism unify? And if so, why?
on 28 May 2010 at 7:36 am
Comment number 1 on the video made me chuckle for some reason.
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