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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 Is Abrasive Alasdair the cure for this ailing patient?
on 6 November 2011 at 3:20 am
It boils down to 1 key point. Are Nationalists more likely to vote for the SDLP today than they were yesterday?
Personally, I’m not a big fan of McDonnell, but he’s certainly an upgrade on Ritchie. And if there was anyone of value in the SDLP in WT I’d be more likely to at least give them a transfer as I couldn’t bring myself to do it under Ritchie. However, there have to be a few questions about the temperament anyone that gets flustered enough by Conor Maskey to say ‘Jesus Christ’ during post election analysis in the middle of the day. It certainly could make for good entertainment.
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Comment on NI Universities show strong religious imbalance in student numbers
on 18 October 2011 at 11:16 pm
This conversation prompted me to have a look at the University destinations of the guys that did their A-Levels the same year as me (a few years ago now). Out of the 129 that did A-Levels that year
83 went to QUB or UU
19 went to Dublin (All Trinity & UCD)
14 went across the water to England/Scotland,
7 repeated A-Levels or went into Further education/trades
6 went straight into employment.
I don’t know how representative that is of other schools throughout the North but I’d imagine it’s fairly typical of a Maintained Grammar West of the Bann
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Comment on The latest Boundary Commission News..
on 13 September 2011 at 11:22 am
Drunlim, I’d take your point re: Torrent to FST, but of the wards moving from the old WT to FST, it would be equally likely that children from those wards would be as likely attend school in Enniskillen as they do in Omagh,
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Comment on Another cross community event at a GAA club
on 13 August 2011 at 12:31 am
DR – Quincey’s image is 2 years old, who’s to say the same teams are competing? However, knowing a little bit of one or two of the tug of war teams in question they’re just a gather up of locals who are into that kind of thing. They’re certainly not endorsed by any GAA club and they’re just out for a days craic. It passes a Sunday and is an excuse for a slap of pints.
Anyway, considering there’s a full round of league fixtures in Tyrone on Sunday I find it difficult to see many players or supporters participating in the Tournament.
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Comment on GAA lacks sincerity…
on 12 August 2011 at 2:21 am
I’d expect that wouldn’t be much of a problem in Down nightrider….
But regardless, haven’t you flogged this particular one to death Quincey? You blogged it on your own site 2 years ago and you revisit it this year? For a start, you used the same image of the poster you used 2 years ago – if you were so outraged surely you could have went to the bother of getting a more recent one!
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Comment on Red Hands to renew rivalry with Dubs
on 6 August 2011 at 1:33 pm
Just about to hit the road, I’m confident that Tyrone will do it. Like most of the Tyrone fans and indeed most Nordies, I’m looking forward to the banter, atmosphere and craic with the Dubs before and during the game. We may love to hate them but they’re not a bad sort.
Apart from the clampers. Bastards.
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Comment on Lee Reynolds steps up to Belfast City Council
on 26 July 2011 at 4:31 am
Just out of curiousity, is this the same guy that challenged Jim Molyneaux for the leadership of the UUP in the mid 90s?
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Comment on Watching the Twelfth: Ladder of Escape…
on 14 July 2011 at 12:40 pm
You’d have no bother getting Ulster Final tickets at this stage – It looks like it won’t be a sell out. Give the Ulster Council office in Armagh a ring and somebody there will get you sorted out.
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Comment on Bigotry and NI’s regressive game of tit and tit for tat…
on 5 July 2011 at 4:23 pm
Jim Wells has been equally as outspoken regarding the GAA as Ian McCrea – are community relations really that much better in Castlewellan or Leitrim as they are in Cookstown? Maybe I’m underestimating the depth of feeling but I’d like to think that if there was a similar incident in my community I’d be made as welcome by the OO as I’d be fairly certainly they’d get plenty of appreciation from my club if the roles were reversed.
btb – Who asked for support? What Ian McCrea was chastised about was that he was reveling in the fact his local team got beat in a game he has no interest in. That’s probably the worst type of schadenfreude. It would be a different story if, for example, Coagh United Reserves had beat Coalisland Athletic in the Mid Ulster League final and he was gloating. This was solely about soliciting a sectarian row.
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Comment on Bigotry and NI’s regressive game of tit and tit for tat…
on 5 July 2011 at 1:56 pm
“But it is harder to imagine a repeat of what happened at St Johns GAC, Leitrim (Co Down) – when it was attacked a few years back and the local Orange turned up the following day to help clear up the mess – in Tyrone.”
Bit of sweeping statement there Mick – care to elaborate as to why you think that wouldn’t happen in Tyrone?
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