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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 Newt hears echoes of Lawrence in PSNI probe of sectarian attack; UUP mixed messages exposed
on 15 January 2012 at 12:51 am
Have you had many beatings by such numbered crowds Decimus? How should one look?
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Comment on Get your bigot gear for tots
on 9 January 2012 at 8:29 pm
Some of this stuff reminds me how the Palestinians continue to poison the minds of their children with hate-filled messages and symbolism.
Good man gallolaigh for showing Paul the one sided blinkered bollocks statement that so patently was.
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Comment on Give us your suggestions for an Xmas reading list?
on 23 December 2011 at 10:54 pm
Btw – full disclosure…I will also be catching up a backlog of DC Comics New 52 titles.
Particulary enjoying the various Batman arcs as well as break out title, Animal Man.
Any other geeks out there…..hello…
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Comment on Give us your suggestions for an Xmas reading list?
on 23 December 2011 at 10:37 pm
From Steinbeck’s Cannery Row –
“It has always seemed strange to me…..The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
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Comment on Give us your suggestions for an Xmas reading list?
on 23 December 2011 at 6:38 pm
About to finish Michael Bonner’s ‘Jihad in Islamic History – Doctrines and Practice’. It’s a good analysis of early theological underpinnings and indeed arguments as to the meaning and employment of the idea. Great sources and fascinating look at the early Warrior-Scholars during the dawn of the Islamic empire.
After that, it’s on to Will McCants ‘Founding Gods, Inventing Nations’ – which looks at how early civilisations developed cultures and how they used earlier histories to shape their own present.
Fiction wise and as a result Melvyn Bragg’s recent (and excellent) documentary on the author, I’m still eyeing Cannery Row by Steinbeck. It’s sitting on the shelf and is a pleasure to go back to now and again. Short compare to other Steinbeck works, but a beautifully crafted depiction of a lazy little street with an odd assortment of characters and strange friendships.
I’m hoping for the fat communist in the red suit to bring me either Hitch’s Arguably, or Alan Partridge’s ‘autobiography’, ‘I Partridge – We Need To Talk About Alan’. I just have to find out how he beat his addiction to Toblerone, and what it means to be ‘clinically fed up’.
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Comment on Nollaig Shona Duit. Happy Christmas Belfast.
on 23 December 2011 at 11:31 am
Chris, Alan made the point about his annoyance at seeing that which others mentioned above – the cloaking of the language in the accouterments of division. It was more than valid. You then went off on one about his lack of toerance. And framed it thus…
Surely tolerance necessitates you accepting that many people quite legitimately cherish the Irish language and the Irish Nation as symbolised by the National flag.
The Irish language and the Irish Nation? You instantly linked one with the other
You then went on to refer to ‘The National flag’ – again kerb painting the language. You may say twas not your intent, but thats the effect. Your use of language like ‘legitimately cherish’ presupposes two sides to the issue as well. It reinforces the ‘us’ and ‘them’. Thats fair enough when talking about flags and other such things, but doesn’t help when made with reference to that which shouldn’t be contentious.
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Comment on Nollaig Shona Duit. Happy Christmas Belfast.
on 23 December 2011 at 10:53 am
I find myself agreeing with oneil @ 12:26pm. Too often attempts to promote irish are cloaked in ‘our’ sides cultural agenda. I can well imagine that if language classes were to be held in a hall with the radiators bursting off the walls, it would still feel cold for many precisely because of the unnecessary kerb painting the language is subject to. ‘We’ don’t own it. Yes the fact that it has become synonymous with one section of our community is down to a colonial designation (and crude attempts to extinguish it). But by trying to perpetually keep it as such, which is what happens, means you actually end up agreeing with those idiots from centuries before.
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Comment on Contradictory claims from former British handler?
on 23 December 2011 at 10:27 am
latcheeco @ 8:52pm sums it up nicely.
I have a sudden urge to watch The Tailor of Panama…
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Comment on Miami Showband: “Disturbing questions about collusive and corrupt behaviour”
on 21 December 2011 at 11:54 pm
I’m aware of both terms
Aware? But evidently not in possession of the meaning.
Link to what?
Thought not…good night.
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Comment on Miami Showband: “Disturbing questions about collusive and corrupt behaviour”
on 21 December 2011 at 11:45 pm
Can someone explain the terms ‘state’ and ‘non-state’ to Decimus?
(Still waiting on that link)
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