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Books
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A flexible library service for the 21st century?
Tweet Following Alan’s piece on libraries, I picked this ‘advertorial’ from Google plus this evening… about how a US county library system is cutting costs and improving flexibility in their free at the point of delivery services by enabling the whole library service act as a functioning unit as opposed to the one discrete library… read our review » -
The lost art of reading (or drowning in too much information)…
Tweet Here’s a great review of a fascinating book (H/T reader Rory) on how the Internet is destroying our capacity for intelligent, focused and critical thought. It opens thus: …here is the news that Ulin brings in this slim, meandering book: that reading is “an act of contemplation”; that such an act becomes more difficult [...] read our review »
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Learning from 1798?: Northern Ireland’s Upcoming Decade of Commemorations
Tweet Last year, the Lilliput Press released a new extended edition of Tom Dunne’s Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize winning book, Rebellions: Memoir, Memory and 1798. First published in 2004, Dunne’s book provoked considerable controversy with its critique of the ‘commemorationist’ history that Dunne believed dominated the 1998 commemorations of the 1798 Rebellion. The book blasted the [...] read our review »
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Comment on Now here’s a thought. The Union Jack is not the flag of Unionism
on 11 January 2013 at 3:34 am
Support for the Union Flag among ethnic minorities in England maybe stronger than people think.Recently in Hong Kong there has been some flag waving by protesters-the old colonial flag!
I would have thought the flag of Unionism in Northern Ireland is the Ulster Banner.
Fly a council flag at Belfast City Hall. The Belfast city logo looks good and it makes a nice flag.
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Comment on Is Northern Ireland less Irish than the Republic of Ireland?
on 12 September 2012 at 3:11 pm
Within Europe political boundries don’t always include all those of single nationality.Is a Hungarian less of a Hungarian if he or she lives in Transylvania?
What about all those Irish who live in other countries?
Do they stop being Irish when they emigrate?
I always called it Éire.
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Comment on Anders Behring Breivik: murderer, fascist; and object of derision?
on 28 August 2012 at 4:01 am
Breivik may not be insane in the sense that he has some kind of mental illness but he is clearly a psychopath.
Another psychopath who has been in the news is Ian Brady, someone who was an admirer of the Nazis.
These people have to be kept locked away.
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Comment on A new IRA emerges lashed together from the wreckage of the old…
on 1 August 2012 at 6:35 am
ArdEoin
National Democracy? The kind of democracy that existed in the German Democratic Republic or the present day Lao People’s Democratic Republic.
British withdrawal from Burma didn’t bring peace by the way.
There has been 60 years of civil war brought about by those who want to impose their ways on everybody regardless of religion or ethnicity.
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Comment on A new IRA emerges lashed together from the wreckage of the old…
on 31 July 2012 at 4:00 am
New century-new approach.
These young people are clearly suffering from depression.
Grab those who are rioting sign a section order and then give treatment.Remember One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest.Believe me a mental hospital is much worse than a jail.This will cure all the lunacy of the IRA and any other paramilitaries.
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Comment on New Tories, old Tories, what’s the difference?
on 2 February 2012 at 1:52 am
Comrade
The Belfast Labour Party founded in 1892 was one of the earliest socialist parties in the UK was not really an import.
Socialism is now of course almost dead.
The Conservative and Unionist Party was the name of the Tory party in England until 1965 so in that sense it is an import but think of it as Lord Feldman’s Laugh-In show.
The (Marty) Feldman show used to end with a man speaking in a mock German accent saying- “very interesting but stupid”.
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Comment on Salmond invades Dublin in pursuit of Glasgow’s Labour vote?
on 15 January 2012 at 4:26 am
Salmond will not be invading Burma nor meeting Aung San Suu Kyi anytime soon.Burma that Northern Ireland of the British Empire had its Scots. They ran the river boats. There are Anglo-Burmese with a Scottish ancestry.
The SNP wants independence for Scotland but will it support an independent Karen state.
The Karens have struggled for more than sixty years for an independent country against real oppression from their Burmese rulers.
Scotland wants to play a world role so lets hear what the so called nationalists have to say about a part of the world they had strong connections to.
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Comment on You May Never Set Our Referendum!!
on 12 January 2012 at 5:41 am
Oh well that’s that called off.
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Comment on Nollaig Shona Duit. Happy Christmas Belfast.
on 20 December 2011 at 11:03 am
Add two more signs in Chinese and Polish then it would be truly muticultural.
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Comment on Meet Kim Jong-un, he may need your advice
on 20 December 2011 at 8:50 am
Where is Aidan Foster-Carter when you need him?
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