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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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Children of the Revolution (Bill Rolston)
What was life like for children of political activists during the Troubles? A new book by Bill Rolston and published by Guildhall Press during the summer has collected together the stories of twenty Children of the Revolution whose parents’ activities – and in many cases, imprisonment – had a significant affect on childhoods and life [...] read our review »
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Debating the Churches’ Role in the Peace in Northern Ireland
This morning’s Sunday Sequence featured a substantial debate (about 35 minutes into the recorded programme) on a new book,Religion, Civil Society and Peace in Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press 2011), written by sociologists John Brewer, Gareth Higgins and Francis Teeney. The debate was framed in an opening vignette by presenter William Crawley in uncompromising terms, [...] read our review »
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Comment on Willie Flags Up An Interesting Question
on 21 May 2012 at 4:14 pm
“It is a depressing, yet unsurprising, facet of the Irish Republican mindset to take pleasure in goading its victims.”
Yeah, that’s exactly what this is. It couldn’t possibly be anything else.
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Comment on Willie Flags Up An Interesting Question
on 21 May 2012 at 8:53 am
meme-tastic
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Comment on Willie Flags Up An Interesting Question
on 20 May 2012 at 11:49 pm
“I’m sure you will agree with me that Willie’s rant was as stupid and pathetic as a SF councillor objecting to British eggs in Sainbury’s”
If the shinner had stated that the presence of the union flag made everyone who worked or shopped at Sainsburys members of the UVF, then yes.
Many of our political representatives get themselves worked up over flags, it’s as old as the troubles themselves.
The problem here is the labelling of schoolchildren as IRA men in training.
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Comment on Without a new approach to Education, the Minister is condemned to micromanaging micro outcomes…
on 10 May 2012 at 8:04 pm
“If parents can chose to have Irish language schools, why can other parents not chose their children to have the chose of going to a grammar school??”
Paul sits next to Peter who has an apple, Peter sits opposite Jane who has a pear. Jane has two people to her left, one of which is Paul. Is Paul on Peter’s left or right hand side and should he compare his orange to Paul’s apple?
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Comment on Enda won’t debate Gerry who in turn won’t debate Micheal on the Treaty…
on 10 May 2012 at 7:10 pm
Vincent has offered to let Ursula Hannigan host.
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Comment on “Over the next fortnight the black flag of anarchy will fly over Free Derry Corner…”
on 3 May 2012 at 4:23 pm
Irony.
When a blawger has to type more words in the tags entry box than they did in the original troll.
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Comment on “Truth and trust are intertwined. You can’t have one without the other.”
on 30 April 2012 at 1:40 pm
“various activities”
What a wonderful turn of phrase.
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Comment on Sinn Fein cut quotes from three Economists who believe “there is little to be gained from rejecting the Treaty…”
on 27 April 2012 at 1:14 am
“Karl Whelan one of a small band of high-profile economists in Ireland, whose views on the economics of the treaty are of interest to the people who are about to vote on it. His views on the politics of the thing are no more of interest than those of any other citizen, since that’s not his area of expertise.”
This is economics we are dealing with, not physics.
For that reason, there is no clear line of demarcation between the views you seem to think people should heed and those you think they should give no weight to.
Selective quoting, especially when quote isn’t even a complete sentence let alone a complete thought is misrepresentation.
It’s like the ‘reviews’ you get on a bad movie’s poster with half a sentence attributed to the sun.com But as we all now know, they were usually quotes from shills or joe public in the comments section, or worse still Paul Ross.
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Comment on Sinn Fein cut quotes from three Economists who believe “there is little to be gained from rejecting the Treaty…”
on 26 April 2012 at 10:03 pm
“SF have neither misrepresented Karl Whelan, nor taken his words out of context.”
SF’s problem is that by quoting the man they assign importance to his words/views, importance they can’t very well then take away when the man reveals himself to disagree with them. To do so is misrepresenting him.
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Comment on Why are there not more Nationalist blogs?
on 26 April 2012 at 9:49 pm
“Why are there not more Ian Parsleys?”
There’s only one (ever changing) Ian Parsley!
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