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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 Iris – the statement…
on 7 January 2010 at 3:28 am
This whole thing feels and smells… why so upset now…. knowledge of the affair breaking was 9 months ago. What else are Spotlight about to reveal, I agree with Joe, there is more to this than meets the eye, in fact I know there is a lot more, most of which will never come out.
Ultimately however if it affects his ability to do his job then it is our business, and it obviously has, hence the ever detiorating relations with the bold Martin over the last half of 2009, lets be honest any of us would be hard to get along with if we had the worry of that lot going on in the background!
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