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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 Is that it?
on 11 March 2010 at 2:14 am
Was that it? Really; was that it? What ever happened to that concept of Unionist confidence that was all important just a week ago.
Peter and the DUP tell us that the Unionist community is fully behind the deal and they point to the latest series of NIO inspired polls to support that contention. However, those same polls indicate that community support is only somewhere between 68% and 72% of the total population in Northern Ireland. Now, bearing in mind that Nationalists make up 44%+ of that population, even the most optimistic definition of “Unionist” couldn’t put that segment of society at any more than 56% of the total population. Assuming that Nationalists are close to 100% in agreement with the devolution of P&J that would indicate that the Unionist community are, at best, between 40% – 45% in favour. That doesn’t sound like “confidence” to me.
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Comment on The DUP are still in play at Hillsborough…
on 2 February 2010 at 2:19 am
scaramoosh, 16: Watch the report on BBC. Gregory initially appears very pleased with himself before adopting a more poker-faced approach. The internet clip doesn’t show it but at the group splits up in what looks like a very deliberate division. Dodds and Paisley in one direction and Gregory “captures” Peter Robinson.
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