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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 Garret FitzGerald
on 19 May 2011 at 12:58 pm
“Garret the Good”, as I recall was a favourite name in the 80′s and one which he lived up to.
I daresay events of the last couple of days with the Queen’s visit must, if he had been aware of it during his illness have seemed like the culmination of his lifes work and been almost as satisfying as outliving his contemporaries who possessed “flawed pedigrees”. RIP.
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Comment on The TUV’s disappointing victory
on 16 May 2011 at 10:28 am
“Be a help if we had a media with the willingness and ability to interview him ”
Yes. However, any other party leader would be called to accunt for the behaviour and views of their party members. Why has this not happened? I have emailed JA asking him for his views on A Tangled Web, the rancid mouthpiece of one of his foremost party members. He has not deigned to respond.
The TUV does not appear to regard itself as do other parties in this respect and therefore we may take it that A Tangled Web expresses views with which Allister agrees. Hammer him for that!
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Comment on The defeat of the PUP and Dawn Purvis
on 13 May 2011 at 11:24 am
Stpehen
Quite right. Its patently clear that the PUP bid for the Loyalist working class vote is exactly the sort of turf the TUV want to walk on, as the latter wiould love a return to the mid-70s days of Protestant militancy.
I have always taken the “don’t like the PUP because I object to violence in principle” line as utter hypocrisy and a smokescreen for not liking who Catholics vote for and excluding those spokespeople from government.
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Comment on Welcome to our new and urbane tribalist politics…
on 13 May 2011 at 9:11 am
“we have a more urbane and civilised politics”
Who were the panellists? Doesn’t sound like the TUV participated…
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