Open Sunday – discuss what you like…
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The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like. Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing. Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday.
Open sunday – politics free zone…
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In addition to our normal open Sunday, we have a politics-free post to give you all a break. So discuss what you like here, but no politics. Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday.
Storytime with Houdi – Party time!
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It’s 1983. I’ve long left small town Ireland for the big city of Dublin. I’m currently working as a trainee retail store manager in Tallaght a village now crammed with 70,000 rehoused inner city residents. It’s a worthwhile career. I’m …
What should we make of the latest Irish Unity poll?
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First up, a confession. Strictly speaking this was not an Irish Unity poll, it was conducted on behalf of the European Movement Ireland as one of an annual series on Irish attitudes towards the EU and the policy choices it …
Is this the end of the road for opposition to the UK government’s latest plans for legacy truth recovery?
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The UK Supreme Court’s ruling that the rights of victims and their families have not been diminished by the amended operation of the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR) all but guarantees the final passage of the UK …
Mick Clifford Defines Nationalism’s Invidious “Disneyfication Trap”
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The debate about Stormont’s future is asking the wrong question. The real issue is whether nationalism has the honesty to tell a younger generation what constitutional change actually requires — and the institutional competence to prove it can govern in the meantime.
‘The violence is continuing’: scholars examine embodied memory of conflict
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The International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE) at Ulster University hosted a seminar to mark the exhibition “Aftershocks: The Sensory Afterlives of Violence”, on display at the university’s Belfast campus until 13 May. The seminar brought together Professor Roísín Higgins (Maynooth University), who organised the …
British elections open thread…
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Yesterday the people of Britain went to the polls to cast their democratic mandate in the Welsh and Scottish Assembly elections as well as local elections in England. Results will be coming out throughout the day so I have created …
A day of reckoning for the Labour Party and Keir Starmer as Britain goes to the polls…
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Will today be the last day of Keir Starmer’s Prime Ministership? With voting to the Scottish and Welsh assemblies and also the English Council elections, it is a crucial test of the popularity (or lack thereof) of the Labour Party …
She lived her life like a candle in the wind….
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The Guardian reports on unearthed interviews with the playwright Arthur Miller about his marriage to Marilyn Monroe. Some of the quotes are quite revealing: He was one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century and she was one of …