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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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Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation. A book about how things are changing.
Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland is a new academic tome by lecturer and researcher Lee Smithey. In the book the Pennsylvania academic outlines his findings based on 67 interviews over eighteen months with grassroots activists in unionist and loyalist communities and organisations. This is largely a book about men, even though they [...] read our review »
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What has The Third Man got to say about Northern Ireland?
Short answer: very little, other than he enjoyed the environs of Hillsborough Castle, enjoyed working with the local politicians, and has Gerry Adams to thank for Bobby his dog. Peter Mandelson’s book The Third Man has captured media headlines in recent weeks as the Times serialised the most juicy bits. But what did he have [...] read our review »
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Comment on Willie Flags Up An Interesting Question
on 21 May 2012 at 6:24 pm
derrydave Willie clearly snapped some time ago. He still hasn’t been held to account for posting on web those pictures of kids in a bath.
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Comment on Sectarianism in Northern Ireland is common (and popular) across all classes…
on 21 May 2012 at 6:19 pm
Alan N/Ards. I haven’t claimed it would change anything here. Whoever the owner of the property is, the tenants are running a disorderly house and that has to be rectified at some point whatever they choose to call themselves and there’s no sign of the inmates changing their attitudes..
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Comment on Sectarianism in Northern Ireland is common (and popular) across all classes…
on 21 May 2012 at 1:20 pm
Greenflag If Reggie ‘What a bloody awful country’ Maudling were still around, he’d probably call it as an acceptable level of bigotry. As David Dunseith predicted it will take towo generation to finally get rid of sectarianism and by then the ‘statelet’ will already have been in the dustbin of history itself.
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Comment on Willie Flags Up An Interesting Question
on 21 May 2012 at 1:03 pm
Bluesjazz. Willie is still hankering after the old days in 1964 when the RUC went – after Paisley’s threat – to remove a flag from a SF office. However, while both Paisley and Adams laughed and joked about their shared part in that event, willie is still full of bitterness over flags. No problem with a Polish or Turkish foreign flag, just the one that loked like the tricolour. He’s going to have a ball during the euro 2012 finals as the anthem and the flag will be seen around the world on at least three dates, so UEFA hq can expect a fulminating phone call or two from willie pronto. What must his blood pressure be like?
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Comment on Sectarianism in Northern Ireland is common (and popular) across all classes…
on 21 May 2012 at 12:24 pm
Sadly, Alex Kane is right, and there’s no appetite for a helthier body politic in these parts. It’s like a drug which people on both sides feel they should break the habit of but would miss terribly if forced to go cold turkey. As to alliance, Ford’s tv appearances on H&M et al show his desperation to promote his party nonstop instead of answering the questions.
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Comment on Belfast Black Taxi Tour – political insight or Troubles tourism?
on 21 May 2012 at 12:04 pm
Looks like Peter was offered a few details on the facts of political life here by Marty as to the cutting off of fat salaries and expenses at Stormont if the maze site wasn’t given the ok, so Peter capitulated and, rather than openly admit he and DUP had been made an offer they couldn’t refuse, has made the best of a bad job by pretending to see the shrine to hunger strikers as a plus for Norn Iron tourism after all.
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Comment on “The link between taxing and spending is basic to democracy…”
on 18 May 2012 at 4:55 pm
Barnshee. We can hardly be surprised at the fright they get at Stormont at this bind their in, when they can choose not to have social security powers for fear it would make them unpopular. Shows how unserious they are up there. A real governmenty wouldn’t have such an option. Sammy Wilson is is a particular vice between having a healthy economy and seeing the link with London loosened, giving comfort to the shinners in the process. It would be comical if it weren’t so serious. I always read newton’s columns.
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Comment on #Euro2020: Professor McWilliams open letter from Northern Ireland to the Faroe Islands…
on 17 May 2012 at 11:24 pm
Mick. Sorry, that should have been posters, as I was referring to the thread on Pie which has dozens of posts advocating that the FAI and UEFA should relly have allowed armbands to mark all the victims over 35 years rather than the specific event in loughinisland. Today’s anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan atyrocity didn’t get a look in over there, btw.
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Comment on #Euro2020: Professor McWilliams open letter from Northern Ireland to the Faroe Islands…
on 17 May 2012 at 7:44 pm
John [5.34] I was reading the thread on this, on Pie NI section. the NI board should be renamed ‘Pavlov’s Blog’ as it’s packed with kneejerk responses and whataboutery.
Some unionist politicians [surprise, surprise] operate a double standard on commemorating victims and this is shown up by the oft repeated suggestion that when dealing with catholic victims of loyalists or state killing, the form ‘all victims of the troubles’ is wheeled out to avoid embarassment to unionists and loyalists, while marking deaths of victims of republicans require no such censoring and are to be marked individually. nice distinction there.
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Comment on #Euro2020: Professor McWilliams open letter from Northern Ireland to the Faroe Islands…
on 17 May 2012 at 1:34 pm
Mike the First. It’s no such thing. In fact shortly before the finals in ’94 a unionist politician warned nationalisdts about indulging in triumphalist behaviour during the tournament.
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