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Risk of going beyond either/or…
This is article was first published in Fortnight magazine back in February 2003. Chris Farrington is now a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ in the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin. Although the circumstances it describes has changed radically and [...] read our review »
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Learning from 1798?: Northern Ireland’s Upcoming Decade of Commemorations
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 involvement [...] read our review » -
“Good Friday. The death of Irish Republicanism” by Anthony McIntyre: a review
This was a book that I first reviewed at the same time as “Unionism Decayed” back in 2008. Like Vance’s work, it is the author’s portrayal of a defeated political movement or ideal and as a Unionist it was instructional to read an interpretation of the immediate post-Agreement period from the other side of the fence. [...] read our review »
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Comment on Catching up with Paddy Meehan (Socialist Party)
on 22 April 2011 at 2:20 pm
Down South Clare Daly has declared war against fine gael/labour in the south.Last night td for all-north dublin socialist laid down the foundation stone of her up-coming election campaign for the european parliament by announcing that government cuts will lead to ‘war by my constituents….(i won’t be there though…..i’m a politico…..(
Meanwhile the ballymun regeneration programme has been put on hold….
Has kins,Dylan has sworn allegiance to the democratic revolution that eamonn dunphy started in north clan dolcain,courtesy of that 70s revolutionary icon and gorrilla fighter Charles Bird.(6000 a-week-salary and confident comrade of the ned stapleton rte cumann…..
The breakaway faction of the fianna fail jerimiah o’donovan rossa cumann have distanced themselves from former Taoiseach Bertrand Aherne,and called for an investigation into why Celia Larkin was allowed to invite so many people up to the phoenix park.Farmleigh house was bought for 15 million above it’s value.(small change compared with the price of toilet Roll…
Valued at 25.Bought for 40 Million.(inhouse buisness not yet established
Office of Public Works Have distanced themselves from the brown envelopes and now support crime fighter Paul Willo Williams call for an investigation into the fianancial affairs of all members of the Jeremiah O’Donavan Rossa Fianna Fail Cumainn,
The Irish Socialist Republican Party Have Condemned The United Left Alliances Call For A Bloodbath on O’Connell St.
(hownever if the politicos want to man the frontlines and take the batons full on.So b it………………………………..
What’s the Socialist Partys View On the Declaration of War that was called on RTE last night by senior Trot Clare Daly.
Do they support the war effort.This is two days into the conflict and The Sound of Silence Is Deafening.
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Comment on Catching up with Paddy Meehan (Socialist Party)
on 21 April 2011 at 9:28 pm
The unions haven’t marched in dublin since before the elections….
Free State Assets been sold for 30 billion.American computer company promises 50 jobs.
Kenny,Enda should be ashamed about making beggars out of his people.
british far-left writer kieran allen thinks we should form our own wee bank.this trot strategist has caused nothing but fractures in the irish left,a bit like roy johnsons and the english communist stefans mao in south clondalkin.gis a job at rte.com
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Comment on Catching up with Paddy Meehan (Socialist Party)
on 21 April 2011 at 9:08 pm
-All Politicans Should Work 4 Days A Week In A Democracy-No Excuses.
When joe Higgins started out on the road to nowhere in 1994,he promised to put his ‘surplus from his government tax-paid salary back into the community where i live.We have a population of 25,000.Last week,the county council promised to erect a ‘Goal Post’.
And it also raises the point that we have an Assembly now that almost without exception is a voice for big business….
The United Left Alliance have formed an alliance with Mick Wallace,the millionaire Wexford builder,who’s now become a socialist?Wonder how the alliance leader of the left will figure this out.Are the socialist workers part of this all-island ‘socialism.Eamonn McCanns party don’t support the ula,…I know the Irsh Socialist Republican Party are Completely Opposed to the Left Alliance and consider it a ‘trot’ in the wong direction.The I.C.T.U. are more sectarian now than ever,and this tendency needs to be challenged…
After Leon came Vlad the Bad,then came The Man of Steel.
Connolly,james,once upon a time in america had a lot of problems wit these ‘orthodox socialists,the International Workers of the World.The Wobblies…….De leon was a fool who believed in nothing but the big BANG.His socialist racket earned him international acclaim as the man who sold Connolly for a sausage…
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Comment on Catching up with Paddy Meehan (Socialist Party)
on 21 April 2011 at 3:22 pm
Are the Socialist party a breakaway faction of the Irish Socialist party?Do they support cross-border policing?
I know higgins started the water charges campaign 20 years ago.What’s the situation with the 6-county water?
Is it free water?or Privatized.
‘Down south six-bottles of clean water cost 5 euro.I know this might seem like small change,but if your living like on a council estate,’n find your entire family is out of work since the 1980s,this can be quite costly,and might lead to an outbreak of another ‘free water campaign…..this could lead to employment as a politican….you could earn 142,000 as a TD…..and then a better job as an MEP…..
This could lead to your own brand new house…..far away from the homeless.the broken and the damned…..
But not to worry,murray’s in the house….
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Comment on Catching up with éirígí’s John McCusker – starting “a community fight back”
on 21 April 2011 at 2:23 pm
[Mod - removed ... way off topic and the start of a chain of comments that didn't refer to the original post]
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Comment on DUP and Sinn Féin manifesto launches
on 19 April 2011 at 12:56 pm
DC:Number 2 is a dressing up of old and outdated unionism.
No. 2 could mean ‘squeeze harder and a new manifesto might pop up…
RyanAdams;Sinn Fein; Different election, Same old shit –
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Comment on DUP and Sinn Féin manifesto launches
on 19 April 2011 at 12:48 pm
And also the DUP are pro-business, everyone knows this because sure look at how Iris helped to set young Kirk up!
Spock wud be dissappointed.as the poet said;blow yer own furrow….
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Comment on Catching up with éirígí’s John McCusker – starting “a community fight back”
on 19 April 2011 at 11:59 am
Oscar,
Has anyone ever made a serious study of his mental state?
ruth dudley tried.and failed.miserably.it’s a bit like the ‘foolish diction that fine gael are currently using….
Dr. T. from Dublin 4,recently remarked that enda ‘Kennyer’
was a ‘scrapper’.It would be ironic,would it not,for our Taoiseach to be reduced to a ‘street slangin’ by educated people like the doctuir dalkey.
Freud would interpret this diction as hippo-critical.You see,
Our Taoiseach told barracks o bama that ‘apostraphies were important in oirish cultuir.It doesn’t add up that his mental state should be evaluated by one of his chums.
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Comment on Catching up with éirígí’s John McCusker – starting “a community fight back”
on 19 April 2011 at 11:23 am
Imho Alf i think a lot of poets are misunderstood.Say for example,Christy Brown.Some would consider him ‘useless’.
Pearse i think would have seen him as an out and out genius.A leftie from birth.I’d much rather my daughter read Christy Brown than listen to Crap Rap.
A disturbing insight into the life of Christy Brown, the paralysed artist immortalised in the film My Left Foot, has been uncovered by a biography claiming that he was neglected by his alcoholic wife.
The Hollywood-style happy ending depicted in the Oscar-winning movie has been challenged by the book, which exposes his wife, Mary Carr, as a former prostitute who took lovers of both sexes.
More controversial, however, are its allegations that her drink problem and her failure to look after him properly during his last days contributed to his decline and premature death aged 49.
I’ll Quote Brown.ie for u-
‘Don’t let me die between the legs of some foolish ready woman…
This doesn’t mean Brown swung both ways.The fact that his wife did probably inspired his poems…
@Let me laugh and scream at the very waves…..
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Comment on Catching up with éirígí’s John McCusker – starting “a community fight back”
on 19 April 2011 at 9:31 am
Oscar
Are you sure I read his most meaningful adult relationship was platonic. Not that it need necessarily make a difference where paedophilia is concerned.
Pippa,sounds a bit Greek to me.Complex.As for plato nic,
well eh,i read 1 n a half pages n put it down.Much prefere Micheal O’Duibhirs account of An Phoblacht/The Republic.
Leathnach 180-240 gives a good all round grounding account of what really happened in the days leading up to 1916.The one constant was Mac?????
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