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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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Turas, by Colin Neill – a story of strangers in a strange land
Colin Neill’s first novel Turas peeks into a world in which many Ulster Protestants feel uncomfortable. It’s 2020 and the Irish unification that unionists and loyalists confidently predicted would never happen has become a reality. President Adams is ensconced in Phoenix Park. The newsreader reported that … a short ceremony at Stormont had confirmed the [...] read our review »
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Propaganda of Peace: Media and culture during the peace process
Extract from Greg McLaughlin and Stephen Baker: The Propaganda of Peace: The Role of Media and Culture in the Northern Ireland Peace Process. Bristol: Intellect Books. 2010. Political opponents Ian Paisley and Martin McGuiness were confirmed as First Minister and Deputy First Minister of a new executive in May 2007, closing yet another chapter in [...] read our review »
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Comment on STOP THE PRESS! BBC own up to being the broadcasting wing of the IRA/UCUNF/TUV…..
on 4 April 2010 at 6:14 am
Could someone please ask Peter Robinson this: If the land was of no value to him, and if he gained no advantage, financial or otherwise, from selling it, then why did he buy it?
Is he dense?
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Comment on Early start for sectarianism in Stoneyford
on 6 March 2010 at 1:22 pm
Does no one else like the irony of the Orange Order formally applying to march up a cul de sac? C’mon lads, get your comedy heads on…
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Comment on Leinster Says No
on 21 February 2010 at 8:39 am
F*** Leinster. What about giving The Pale back to the Brits and re-uniting the rest of the country?
(it’s late and I HAVE been drinking…)
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Comment on “There has to be a consensus found on education”
on 15 February 2010 at 1:59 am
Given that up until, and indeed for some time after, the Civil Rights’ campaign this was a Protestant State for a Protestant people, the State schools were, and remain, culturally Protestant schools, whether they are faith school or not.
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Comment on Labhraionn Mac Giolla Eoin amach
on 15 February 2010 at 1:54 am
Cén dóigh nár phléasc Patsaí Mac Giolla Eoin i mbuam frithloighice dá dhéantus féin?
Más maith leis i ndáiríre an teanga gan a bheith polaitiúil, molaim dó gan labhairt fúithi ar son páirtí polaitiúil.
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Comment on “There has to be a consensus found on education”
on 13 February 2010 at 1:55 am
An interim transfer test for 3 years? Seems to me that this was a proposal of Ms Ruane’s which the parties in the Assembly effectively rejected because they could not reach a consensus on this issue. Slow learners?
Also, the DUP needs to be called on its blocking of the Education Bills. This smoke screen of equality, ie a group to represent state schools, is bollocks. State schools are not represented because they do not own their schools; they gave them to the state in return for 100% funding. Catholics schools are represented because they still own the schools, and did not get the same 100% funding historically. Wanting to have one’s cake and eat it is not a valid reason for using the Education Committee to block legislation The Executive claims to be behind.
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Comment on Saillte?
on 6 February 2010 at 2:04 am
Bhuel tá mise sásta nár luadh an Ghaeilge ar chor ar bith sa chomhaontú seo, mar ní ceart go mbeadh an teanga á húsáid mar ghléas idirbheartaíochta ag dream ar bith den dá thaobh sa tsochaí seo. Is le gach Éireannach an teanga, agus níl sé ar leas na teanga go mbeadh an chuma ar chúrsaí go bhfuil sí ‘i seilbh’ dream nó taobh faoi leith,
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Comment on Tribune sex abuse articles now online
on 18 January 2010 at 4:50 am
Hi Blair
I meant I hope you are not TONY Blair…
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Comment on Tribune sex abuse articles now online
on 18 January 2010 at 4:31 am
Hi Blair (I hope you are not THAT Blair)
With respect, how do you know that she was ut under pressure to retract the story, and why do you assume people from Sinn Féin did it? Maybe her family did it, if she was put under pressure.
Anyway, the point remains valid: if The Tribune is genuinely interested in the interests of victims, it should not have published the story without her permission.
By the way, my grammatical parsing of the Breen article re the alleged abuser who is an elected SF representative leads me to conclude that the elected SG representative is a woman – re-reading the article and the type of abuse involved confirms this view.
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Comment on Tribune sex abuse articles now online
on 18 January 2010 at 4:18 am
Well now, where to start with the stories in The Tribune today? Having read all Suzanne’s Breen’s articles and taken on board the point of view that the Republican Movement should have put consideration for the victims before the interests of the organisation, imagine my surprise when I read in the Editorial (p17) that the Sunday Tribune had been doing exactly the same thing it accuses Sinn Féin of. Given that one of the victims requested that no details of her story should be published, how can The Tribune justify publishing it? Or does the Editor think that circulation figures are more important than consideration for the victim?
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