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Hearing the Other Voice from the Grave: Why Should we Listen to David Ervine’s Stories?
Ed Moloney’s Voices from the Grave: Two Men’s War in Ireland has received considerable attention in the press and in the public realm since its publication earlier this year. Although the book relates the experiences of the Provisional IRA’s Brendan Hughes and the PUP/UVF’s David Ervine, much of the discussion has focused on Hughes’ stories [...] read our review » -
Help me with the West Wing: Essential viewing or Party Political Broadcast?
Having somehow managed to avoid watching a single episode of the widely praised West Wing TV series I was delighted to discover the entire Box set in my Christmas stocking – and with enough spare time over the holidays to give it a good lash. But with 10 episodes of the first series under my [...] read our review »
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Of the Old North and other Vanished Kingdoms..
I’m currently trawling through Norman Davies’s fabulous new tome – “Vanished Kingdoms” – Five stars in the (London) Telegraph’s review from Ben Wilson: All the nations that have ever lived have left their footsteps in the sand,” writes Norman Davies. “The traces fade with every tide, the echoes grow faint, the images are fractured, the human [...] read our review »
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Comment on 35 years after Kingsmills HET report due next week
on 6 January 2011 at 11:10 pm
gendjinn,
An interesting omission from your ‘list’
* the IRA killed more females, more children, more Catholics and more old age pensioners than any other group since 1969.
Indeed, more Catholics died than Protestants during the Troubles. Another ‘proof’, if proof were needed, that the 30-year IRA campaign of terror was a colossal blunder by the Republican movement.
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Comment on Pat Sheehan
on 5 January 2011 at 11:11 am
‘The IRA, for example, if it had wanted to kill Protestants’…
They could have murdered 10 Protestant workmen in Kingsmills, right?
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Comment on Pat Sheehan
on 4 January 2011 at 10:49 am
If IRA atrocities were ‘civilized’, then the original Stormont regime was utopia!
Wise up folks, no amount of rationalizing or moral ‘equivalencing’ can hid the fact that the IRA campaign was brutal and barbaric and condemned Northern Ireland to 30 years of violence, hatred and fear and resulted in 3,500 deaths.
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Comment on One from every month
on 1 January 2011 at 9:58 pm
MP, if you had to face what this unfortunate photographer had to put up with, you would realize that you have little to complain about.
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Comment on “Good news was hard to come by in the Northern Ireland education world of 2010…”
on 27 December 2010 at 8:55 pm
Good news was hard to come by in the Northern Ireland education world of 2010, that is, apart from the fact that NI students again got the best GCSE and A level results in the UK.
In fact, in A* A Level grades awarded, NI students were 10% better than second placed England.
Pete, we can’t be perfect, you know! You are obviously a half-empty type personality.
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Comment on Four US views on whether Wikileaks is a force for good?
on 15 December 2010 at 12:58 am
That’s hilarious, Greenflag!
I can just see the Russians trembling at the thought of French bravery.
Considering the fact that French hasn’t won a war in almost 150 years, here are a few observations on the French ‘threat’:
“I would rather have a German division in front of me
than a French one behind me.”
~ General George S. Patton
“Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.”
~ Norman Schwartzkopf
“As far as I’m concerned, war always means failure”
~ Jacques Chirac, President of France
“As far as France is concerned … you’re right.”
~ Rush Limbaugh
“The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.”
~ Regis Philbin
Next time there’s a war in Europe …
the loser has to keep France.
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Q: What do you call a group of 100,000 Frenchman with their hands in the air?
A: The French army, of course.”
Q: How many French men does it take to defend Paris?
A: Nobody knows as no French man has ever tried.
Q: How can you recognize a French veteran?
A: Sunburned armpits.
Q: Did you hear about the old French rifles for sale on Ebay?
A: ‘Never been fired, dropped only once.’
Q: The French have just ordered a new national flag.
A: It’s a white cross on a white background
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JFK’S Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60′s when DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaulle said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as possible.
Rusk responded: “Does that include those who are buried here?”
DeGaulle did not respond.
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A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included Admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian, Australian and French Navies.
At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large group of Officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English.
He then asked, ‘Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?’
Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied, ‘Maybe it’s because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you wouldn’t have to speak German.’
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Comment on Four US views on whether Wikileaks is a force for good?
on 14 December 2010 at 5:13 pm
The Financial Times has an interesting angle on the positive effects that these releases have had on the credibility of American diplomacy.
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Comment on Four US views on whether Wikileaks is a force for good?
on 13 December 2010 at 9:43 pm
Assange overstepped the mark when he released the diplomatic cables. Ultimately, he will be responsible for less, not more, information being available.
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Comment on Julian Assange and the story of the talking cat…
on 30 November 2010 at 10:06 pm
Hey, RS, maybe the pussy-footing around will stop when the big boys get involved.
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Comment on Julian Assange and the story of the talking cat…
on 30 November 2010 at 6:59 pm
Sorry, RS, that should have been codswallop.
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