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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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Children of the Revolution (Bill Rolston)
What was life like for children of political activists during the Troubles? A new book by Bill Rolston and published by Guildhall Press during the summer has collected together the stories of twenty Children of the Revolution whose parents’ activities – and in many cases, imprisonment – had a significant affect on childhoods and life [...] read our review »
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Debating the Churches’ Role in the Peace in Northern Ireland
This morning’s Sunday Sequence featured a substantial debate (about 35 minutes into the recorded programme) on a new book,Religion, Civil Society and Peace in Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press 2011), written by sociologists John Brewer, Gareth Higgins and Francis Teeney. The debate was framed in an opening vignette by presenter William Crawley in uncompromising terms, [...] read our review »
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Comment on Republic 4 Estonia 0
on 12 November 2011 at 9:59 am
And the first bleary eyed, black stuff soaked response is a palpable miss. Have something to eat (I hear stuff from O’Brien’s is good) compose your thoughts and try again.
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Comment on Republic 4 Estonia 0
on 12 November 2011 at 9:39 am
What a jolly band of craicsters. With a song in their hearts and a mischievous twinkle in their eyes I’m sure the Poles and Ukrainians can’t wait for the tidal wave of mock mickery. The stories of fans rising from the dead to travel, others selling all their kidneys just to see the green and gold army in action, draped flags you’d normally see wrapped around the coffins of dead “freedom fighters and volunteers”, singing their wee songs about rivers running free and boys from the old (fire?) brigade. And for those that say at home?. I’m sure the preparations for the entirely unrelated riot in Strabane are already well advanced.
And yet, despite their cross community credentials being the stuff of legend, those intransigent bigots in the Unionist laager won’t embrace this soccer team. Doesn’t it say it all?
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Comment on Graphic portrayals: Northern Ireland, graphic novels and the peace process
on 10 November 2011 at 6:11 pm
Grud on a greenie… that should read “Heartland which is entirely set in Belfast”. Off to Mek Quake I go…
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Comment on Graphic portrayals: Northern Ireland, graphic novels and the peace process
on 10 November 2011 at 5:45 pm
I’ve read this thing a few times now and I am utterly baffled by it. How, precisely, do Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns and the rest fit into a “Northern Ireland chronology?” Indeed what does that term actually mean? Do our years appear a different order that every where is? Or are the inclusion of “Watchmen” and “Dark Knight Returns” just this individuals simply name checking those comics in the belief it adds credibility to the thrust of his argument? Well here’s some news – it doesn’t, all it displays is a clichéd outlook. Worse it gets which influenced what completely the wrong way around. NI creators have had more of an influence on US comics that US comics ever had on Northern Ireland. Why? One number – two letters. 2000AD And yet for all this referencing and cap doffing he inexplicably misses Ennis’ Preacher one-shot “Homeland which is entirely set in Belfast And this guy is supposed
to be an expert? Please…..
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Comment on NI Universities show strong religious imbalance in student numbers
on 19 October 2011 at 6:15 pm
Perhaps Pradestant students do the calculation – burdened with debt to get a degree from a mediocre University in South Belfast or a worse one in the wilds of Jordanstown, or be similarly burdened with debt but get their degree from somewhere better? Why spend your money on value fish fingers when you can buy caviar for not much more?
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Comment on Is Murdo Fraser right? No, but he’s got a point.
on 19 October 2011 at 3:27 pm
Were Weir or Bell there? One last opportunity for them to wave bits of paper while shouting “point of order” in the Student Union as the Shinners danced rings around them?
Ah the memories.
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Comment on RWC – Here we go…..
on 11 October 2011 at 8:22 am
Republic of Ireland’s rugby team gets chinned and Slugger O’Toole hangs black flags from Unity Flats.
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Comment on More confusion from IFA quarters over football eligibility on the day Nigel walks
on 11 October 2011 at 8:18 am
Still using that illogical, incoherent vanity piece to back your position up Donnelly?
Nothing new there then.
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Comment on Martin McGuinness: “I wasn’t a member of the IRA when that happened…”
on 24 September 2011 at 10:40 am
He was there when it happened. He just didn’t inhale.
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Comment on So what are you listening to right now?
on 18 August 2011 at 4:00 pm
“obsession”? That’s an interesting choice of word Mick. Perhaps I’d be more inclined to be disinterested in the stuff posted here if it was entirely financed by subscription. But as public funds have been used to assist this site, even in terms you obliquely refer to as “a capital rather than a revenue ‘investment’ ” then perhaps an effort to explain your editorial decisions and the choices you make – particularly with regard to the influx of creative “talent” (ahem) who’ve recently taken up residence here, to the people who ultimately pay for this project would perhaps be a better stance to take?
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