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Review: To Kill a Mockingbird
Somehow I escaped reading this essential school text, with its story of racism in 1930s American South. Living in Northern Ireland, I draw parallels with sectarianism, with its similar bigotry and prejudice. To Kill a Mockingbird was part of a Unite Against Hate campaign event at Parliament Buildings in Northern Ireland, which I’ve written [...] read our review »
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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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A New Vision for the Catholic Church – Book Review
The oft-quoted verse from the book of Proverbs, ‘where there is no vision, the people perish,’ (chapter 29, verse 18) opens a new book by Gerry O’Hanlon, A New Vision for the Catholic Church: A View from Ireland (Columba Press, 2011). That verse could be considered an apt summary of the current state of the [...] read our review »
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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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Comment on Meet Kim Jong-un, he may need your advice
on 20 December 2011 at 3:44 am
abucs
I am sure life will go on as normal in the south.
North Pole weather in Busan?
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Comment on Did Christopher Hitchens have a Big Idea?
on 20 December 2011 at 1:45 am
I don’t think Hichens will leave a lasting legacy.
Other atheists (Ayer,Russell…) and other advocates of free speech far outshine him.
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Comment on The problem of communicating DC to DC?
on 20 December 2011 at 1:35 am
The sixties-those were the days!
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Comment on Meet Kim Jong-un, he may need your advice
on 20 December 2011 at 1:20 am
Advice for the dear young lad
Avoid strong drink, eat plenty of fresh vegetables, stay in shape- play lots of ping pong, and you won’t get diabetes.
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Comment on Paisley’s long goodbye comes to a (near) final end…
on 19 December 2011 at 12:38 pm
Is abstaining from the devils milk the secret of long life?
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