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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 ‘I keep my eyes wide open all the time’ – walking the line
on 12 April 2010 at 5:08 am
welcome to our planet bourgeois
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Comment on Garret, you too share the blame
on 28 March 2010 at 4:32 am
Alias, well said.
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Comment on Garret, you too share the blame
on 27 March 2010 at 4:02 pm
Well said Brian, Fitzgerald is a much a part of the establishment that allowed this abuse as anyone else.
Rory
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Comment on Serious questions for Benedict from the US…
on 25 March 2010 at 9:53 pm
I didn’t really take issue with any of your points Gerry, but the fact is the very existence of both Irish states is based on sectarianism and both states pander to their religious majorities (and minorities for that matter) in a desperate attempt to justify their existence.
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Comment on Serious questions for Benedict from the US…
on 25 March 2010 at 9:34 pm
If we had lived in a secular, 32 county republic, there would have been far fewer opportunities for members of religious orders to abuse children.
This would be true going forward too. Both Irish States give special privileges to religious organizations.
Canon Law should have no rule outside the Vatican.
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Comment on “I was only doing my duty”
on 17 March 2010 at 10:50 pm
I hope Aherne sticks to his guns on this one…
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Comment on Londonderry heritage, the latest target of rejectionist republicans
on 15 February 2010 at 1:32 am
Let’s see, the army blow up an abandoned van, an old building gets damaged. Suddenly it is an evil conspiracy to wreck Derry’s chances of becoming the UK city of culture.
Paranoid.
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Comment on And another one bites the dust…
on 13 February 2010 at 6:44 am
I tend to agree with Fitzjameshorse. The Greens are a place for young middle class people with a bit of a social conscience to go until they get a mortgage and a few kids and ‘grow up’ and vote for their Daddy’s party (FF or FG).
They are also staggeringly naive politically as shown by the fact that they thought they could survive where the PDs, a far more battle hardened party died.
A few local elections back the Greens failed to field a candidate in my constituency because they did not know the registration rules. (First they tried to run a non-citizen when that failed their last minute stand in could not get the needed thirty signatures on his application in time).
Talking politics with a few Green Party supporters is a bit like being back in civics class as a twelve year old.
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