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A poem for the day – Launching the Whaler Juan Peron
A Belfast epic, and one of my oldest poems, the opener of my first collection, Grub. The gist of the story was found in Moss & Hume’s Shipbuilders to the World: 125 Years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast, 1861-1986, which tells how Eva Peron was due to launch a huge whaling vessel in Belfast, built [...] read our review » -
Do Words Matter?: Book Review of Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution – Debating Peace in Northern Ireland
I share many of the concerns of Andy Pollak, whose recent post ‘My Response to the Slugger Begrudgers’ zeroed in on the ‘relentless flow of negativity’ of some Slugger commentators. Pollak’s post was largely concerned with the medium of the blog. Indeed, I think the anonymity of the online world encourages extreme discourse and allows [...] read our review »
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“You can see Newton’s mind at work…”
To add to the open access treasure trove at the Royal Society, Cambridge University Library is putting online some of its collection of books, maps, manuscripts and journals. We have called the first phase of our work on the Cambridge Digital Library the Foundations Project, which runs from mid-2010 to mid-2013 and has been made possible [...] read our review »
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Comment on The Times they are a -charging
on 26 March 2010 at 10:27 pm
A bit tangential, but has anyone seen the ‘Sovereign Independent’ yet? I glanced at it up the town here in Derry today and could find very little information about it when I came back. At first I thought, this is obviously Ganley, and then I thought maybe it was Gerry McGeough’s supporters going back into print. It seems to be neither but sails pretty close to the edge and is probably funded by British and American ‘Truthers’ of one type or another. Loads in it about the EU naturally but nothing on the Catholic Church, which would appear an automatic ‘fail’ in a number of ways.
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Comment on Please support Londonderry, UK City of Culture 2013
on 4 February 2010 at 11:34 pm
This is old news Brian, there was a discussion about it here some time ago and someone rightly pointed out that it is a pretty meaningless, second rate competition. No doubt our rates hike will be going to fund this ‘Kugel Fresh’ type prize when they can’t even provide sand/grit bins for the cold weather. This money would be far better spent in any number of ways, including community programmes (even arts and culture wans), but the money goes as usual to the city centre heritage and riverside gentrification black hole. Here’s hoping the Council don’t get it, it will only encourage them.
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Comment on “All tender and effeminate notions must be stilled by a cold and single-blooded passion.”
on 27 January 2010 at 5:36 pm
Mick, I’d say ‘barely controlled’ rather than ‘impressively controlled’, I don’t disagree with the basic thrust of what she says, but as usual the way she says it detracts from the piece. On the plus side she did manage to identify Nechaev as a nihilist and not the ‘anarchist’ you wrongly attributed him to be.
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