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The Written World
Here’s something to keep you occupied over the weekend. [Will there be a quiz? - Ed] Possibly… The BBC magazine has an short and interesting, but un-embeddable, audio slide-show of Melvyn Bragg’s Radio 4 five-parter, In Our Time: The Written World. The British Library has more online information about the texts and technology featured in each [...] read our review » -
What has The Third Man got to say about Northern Ireland?
Short answer: very little, other than he enjoyed the environs of Hillsborough Castle, enjoyed working with the local politicians, and has Gerry Adams to thank for Bobby his dog. Peter Mandelson’s book The Third Man has captured media headlines in recent weeks as the Times serialised the most juicy bits. But what did he have [...] read our review »
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Risk of going beyond either/or…
This is article was first published in Fortnight magazine back in February 2003. Chris Farrington is now a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ in the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin. Although the circumstances it describes has changed radically and [...] read our review »
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Comment on The trouble with Flanders
on 9 February 2011 at 11:39 pm
The place is a civil war waiting to happen
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Comment on Metropolitan Tabernacle Pastor James McConnell Plans Rally for Andersonstown
on 11 January 2011 at 3:35 pm
On a slightly related note, but on the other side of the spectrum, I recently put up pdfs of Clonard Missions (for the conversion of Protestants) from the 1950s.
http://lxoa.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/questions-posed-by-belfast-protestants-at-clonard-missions-1949-59/
The National Union of Protestants has since evolved into http://www.ulsterbulwark.org/
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Comment on Metropolitan Tabernacle Pastor James McConnell Plans Rally for Andersonstown
on 11 January 2011 at 2:20 pm
Turgon, nine days prayer. The Catholic equivalent of these rallies are missions or retreats, which have largely died out since Vatican II.
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Comment on Behaviour in the presence of strangers not Masons
on 6 January 2011 at 1:39 pm
fitzjameshorse, if you live in Ireland or any English speaking country (Grand Lodge) it’s by reference but on the continent you need to be invited (Grand Orient). Grand Lodges require members to believe in a Supreme Being whereas the Grand Orient admite atheists (and have a long tradition of anti-clericalism).
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Comment on Behaviour in the presence of strangers not Masons
on 6 January 2011 at 12:31 pm
There is a Grand Lodge of Ireland and a Grand Lodge of Ireland. One is Masonic and one is Orange.
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Comment on Behaviour in the presence of strangers not Masons
on 6 January 2011 at 12:08 pm
The Charges of a Freemason is online here:
http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/old_charges_freemasonry.html
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Comment on New Brady case doesn’t look like cover up
on 20 March 2010 at 2:31 am
Me? No. I never laugh.
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Comment on New Brady case doesn’t look like cover up
on 20 March 2010 at 2:23 am
pippakin, please do tell us what you thought of it after you’ve seen it.
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Comment on New Brady case doesn’t look like cover up
on 20 March 2010 at 1:45 am
pippakin and others,
there was a fascinating ‘must-see’ documentary on the Irish missionary movement on RTE a few weeks ago. It is on the RTE iplayer until the 23th March. Regardless of what one thinks of their motivations, I certainly recommend seeing it:
http://www.rte.ie/player/#v=1067783
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Comment on New Brady case doesn’t look like cover up
on 20 March 2010 at 1:06 am
True, Joe, but this survey was conducted only a few years ago. What I mean is that paedophiles might have assumed in the past – most were probably ordained in the 60s and 70s – that lay victims would never report them because of their elevated social status. It’s probably the exact opposite now – a victim would have more confidence reporting or acknowleging priestly abuse at the present time because it’s so much in the public domain.
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