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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 The Western Mail reverts to an old old type…
on 22 May 2012 at 10:39 pm
A democracy must be both open and transparent. All parliamentary proceedings from debates in the house to the minutes of the very least of committees need to be available for the electorate to read.
The Welsh Assemby have a duty to provide Welsh speakers written material in a language they can understand. For a Welsh newspaper to support an attempt to disenfranchise Welsh voters in this way is an outrage.
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Comment on Willie Flags Up An Interesting Question
on 21 May 2012 at 1:43 pm
Willie Frazer is someone who has suffered grievously at the hands of Irish Republican murder gangs. It is a depressing, yet unsurprising, facet of the Irish Republican mindset to take pleasure in goading its victims. I am reminded of the recent McArdle incident. Poking a stick at Willie Frazer is more of the same.
Highlighting his sometimes foolish and misguided comments simply provides an opportunity to have a malicious giggle at his personal distress. Those who do so are well aware of what drives Frazer and that is of course where they find their glee.
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Comment on Normality and rugby
on 20 May 2012 at 7:28 pm
I’m pretty comfortable with whichever provincial rugby team Irish nationalists support. We should just be thankful that the thread is not packed with whining about good Irish lads playing ‘garrison games’.
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Comment on “I do apologise for anyone who misunderstood the way I was using the metaphor…”
on 17 May 2012 at 1:40 pm
I often misunderstand when Ms Anderson speaks. I had put it down to her wan accent and her contiuing war against the Saxon Foe by taking every opportunity to strangle the English language into submission hey.
Her inability to understand what an apology is is simply par for the course.
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Comment on “Police will consider the comments made by Judge Weir…”
on 6 May 2012 at 7:14 pm
Do the PSNI pay their spads a salary or simply a retainer? Do they get a security vetting along with the mobile phone?
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Comment on “Given these circumstances we believe the soldiers used reasonable force.”
on 3 May 2012 at 6:55 pm
This all reminds me very much of the Sammy Brush whingefest. Well really those damn Brits shooting back; it’s soooooooo unfair.
It is of course another example of the Irish Republican’s Hokey-Cokey War (when they shoot it’s ‘war’, when the lead comes t’other way it’s watch me Human Rights chara).
There are many, many aspects of the Irish Republican mindset that rises the bile on ones throat but this gurning about the deaths of those armed and bent on murder whilst singing ballads about the ‘glorious’ battle of La Mon or such like tells you all you really need to know about Republicanism in Ireland.
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Comment on Derrytresk GAC call off police road safety event under local public pressure…
on 27 April 2012 at 1:21 pm
I expect that this will turn out to be a misunderstanding by the club.
They must think it is the Garda that’s coming and there are perhaps some concerns that the cops might use the visit to identify some of the stars of Derrytresk’s recent outstanding ‘sporting’ performance at Portlaoise.
No worries bhoys, the PSNI seem to have a policy of turning a blind eye when players/spectators/whoever knock lumps out of each other on or off the parc.
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Comment on Sinn Fein’s South Down selection sows seeds for a new post conflict generation…
on 25 April 2012 at 10:04 am
And the point is? Whilst it is a little bit amusing to see those with a penchant for such behaviour grasping at such straws in the imaginary wind-of-change the reality is very different.
Sinn Fein is not a political party as most democrats understand the term. Unless you toe the partyline, act on the orders beamed from Connolly House, deliver the speeches scripted for you (you may of course claim authorship yourself) you’ll not get through the door.
This bright young thing is one of many waiting in the wings all with that glazed look in the eye of the zealot so reminiscent of the Chinese Red Guard of the Cultural Revolution. They are fully indoctrinated, wound-up and ready to go.
I have some involvement with UUJ (although I’m rapidly extricating myself) and let me tell you the place is infested with the type. Having taken Provo Studies from an early age they may now nuance ‘SSRUC’ etc in academic language but they refuse to even consider any alternative to the ‘truth’ of the ‘war’ rhetoric as espoused by older Shinners. It is deeply dispiriting to interact with them.
They are truly the lost generation having had their potential for development and real growth robbed from them by their immersion in the MOPE culture.
There is however a silver lining for unionists. The ‘fresh’ coat of green, or should that be blood red, paint that will be applied to SF over the incoming years will ensure a ‘united’ Ireland remains a fantasy real only to those who insist they live in that mythical land of ‘The North’.
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Comment on “A mix in society between Catholic and Protestant was lost at that time…”
on 24 April 2012 at 10:13 am
What happened in Cork, and other locations within the Free (to murder) State was indeed a sectarian pogrom. My own great grandfather was a victim only escaping with his life by a matter of hours.
Dunmanway was another example of a continuum of violence by Irish Nationalists when given the upper hand the stretches from before events such as Scullabogue to the very recent past.
An interesting element is of course the associated theft that accompanies such violence. In my one family’s case a local IRA thug ended up with part of what had been my great grandfather’s farm.
Much the same can be seen today with Republican garbage, who would never have amounted to more than the corner boys they are save for their murderous violence, now owning businesses and property that they could never have accrued legitimately.
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Comment on Sinn Fein’s idea of rapprochement “is a brick-cold exercise in reinvention, re-positioning and re-writing of the past”
on 22 April 2012 at 10:04 am
There is so much wrong with the contributions by the Irish fascist ‘PaddyReilly’, personal abuse being the least of it.
Again we see no carding (yet Barnshee gets a shot across his bows). Perhaps it’s open season on the weekend? Any answers Mick, you dolt?
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