Podcast
Slugger Radio begins tomorrow night…
Tomorrow night we kick off a series of broadcast/podcast ‘blog radio’ programmes, each with different themed conversation. Tomorrow, we ask: Do we have a deal, or not? Using BlogTalkRadio, we’ll broadcast the ‘programme’ at 9pm GMT tomorrow and then within fifteen minutes it should be archived and available for download online. Even better, listeners can [...] more »
Heating up the Irish blogging debate
Things are warming up on the media coverage of tomorrow’s Blogging Conference in Dublin. Cian and I had a fairly vigorous discussion on the Tubridy Show this morning. The discussion is the last item on the RTE site, or you can listen to the rough cut mp3 file. Don’t forget to book your place! Installment [...] more »
Podcast: On the importance of West Lothian…
Last week we caught up with top Tory blogger Iain Dale to ask him about his party’s raising of the West Lothian question (download from here). He notes that for all the recent furore around West Lothian question it was in the last Conservative manifesto. He argues that if the presentation has not been everything [...] more »
Radio Slugger: Does North South make sense?
It’s been a while since the last edition of Slugger Radio. Even now, I’ve not quite figured out how to make it available to iTunes users. This edition contains an interview with Sean Farren, some extracts from David McWilliams’ Big Bite programme, and then we sign off with a very wry look at our own [...] more »
Radio Slugger goes live!
Radio Slugger. After some spluttering and bumping into metaphorical and some painfully real technological walls, we finally have the first edition of our podcast, formally known as more »
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Books
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Against Remembrance – Seminar & Book by David Rieff
Is the best way to overcome the legacy of conflict simply to forget about it? Author and journalist David Rieff spoke on this subject last week in a seminar at the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) at Trinity College Dublin. Rieff has recently written a book titled, Against Remembrance (published in Ireland by Liffey [...] read our review »
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Children of the Revolution (Bill Rolston)
What was life like for children of political activists during the Troubles? A new book by Bill Rolston and published by Guildhall Press during the summer has collected together the stories of twenty Children of the Revolution whose parents’ activities – and in many cases, imprisonment – had a significant affect on childhoods and life [...] read our review »
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Debating the Churches’ Role in the Peace in Northern Ireland
This morning’s Sunday Sequence featured a substantial debate (about 35 minutes into the recorded programme) on a new book,Religion, Civil Society and Peace in Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press 2011), written by sociologists John Brewer, Gareth Higgins and Francis Teeney. The debate was framed in an opening vignette by presenter William Crawley in uncompromising terms, [...] read our review »
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