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Books
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A Political History of the Two Irelands competition…
Tweet It’s not often we get free things to give away to our readers, but courtesy of Palgrave Macmillan we have a nice paperback copy of Brian M Walker’s excellent history of partition of the island and how identities shifted in both the north east and the south and west: as most of the territory [...] read our review »
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The Written World
Tweet 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 [...] read our review » -
Robert Kee, hero of journalism and the television history of Irish nationalism
Tweet Slugger should note the passing of Robert Kee, historian, TV and print journalist and RAF bomber pilot, who has died aged 93. In this age of revisionist debate, his TV history series first shown in 1981 and The Green Flag, the written history of Irish nationalism which accompanied it, were well timed and still stand [...] read our review »
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Comment on Uncivil War: a post for today
on 1 April 2011 at 12:19 pm
Oh Turgon’s just doing one of his shifty eyed, not at all glaringly obvious trickery pieces in order to open the minds of us bad nationalists through putting the shoe on the other foot or the ring on the other finger or some such nonsense. You can almost here the attempts to stifle snorting laughter. He’s a weasel and a cad. Best to do what I do, just ignore it and go on Youtube to watch videos of Shetland ponies or something.
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Comment on …if University education were universally available and availed of, the country would collapse in one generation
on 31 March 2011 at 1:05 pm
Good blog on the man himself John, but just a quick correction, Cruskeen Lawn (his articles) are published as the Best of Myles, Myles Away from Dublin, Myles at War etc. The Dalkey Archive is a novel (one of his weaker ones imho).
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Comment on Belfast – a tale of three protests
on 25 June 2010 at 10:40 pm
Hmm…what a conundrum. I’m against picketing…but I don’t know how to show it.
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