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Graphic portrayals: Northern Ireland, graphic novels and the peace process
Dr Gordon Gillespie, a researcher at the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, gave a presentation on “Graphic Portrayals: Northern Ireland, Graphic Novels and the Peace Process”, at the Linen Hall Library. Gordon started with a clarification that he was going to talk about graphic novels/comic books, not cartoons, and material that was [...] read our review »
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Books: Listening to Van Morrison…
Great little review of Listening to Van Morrison by Griel Marcus… It’s a short book, not a biography or a career survey, but an attempt to follow those moments in Morrison’s music, as he’s made it from his first records with Them, from Belfast in 1965 to the present day, when something happens that breaks [...] read our review »
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Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation. A book about how things are changing.
Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland is a new academic tome by lecturer and researcher Lee Smithey. In the book the Pennsylvania academic outlines his findings based on 67 interviews over eighteen months with grassroots activists in unionist and loyalist communities and organisations. This is largely a book about men, even though they [...] read our review »
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Comment on Move over lads….
on 21 January 2009 at 10:07 pm
Good work Jenny & Kathleen – very interesting and very important topic
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Comment on “there will be a diversity of opinion on the contents of a Bill of Rights..”
on 10 December 2008 at 3:55 pm
Graduate,
What about the representitives of the business sector and the churches who sat on the forum – surely the trotskysts haven’t infiltrated that far?
They must be everywhere….
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Comment on No lunch with Natalia
on 5 December 2008 at 10:41 pm
Good to real more of this type of politics up on Slugger. Its not just green and orange old sh*te
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