When were these Halcyon Days of the Media?
(Updated version here on IrishCentral.com) Having wanted to see him speak for some time, you can imagine my delight when
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A United Ireland ‘…sure the loyalists will go mad…’
In response to reposting this article – A United Ireland is Inevitable – and after reading it too, I was
Read moreEPISODE 5 – BaldPolitiKs – 21 December 2016 (Anne Cadwallader – Pat Finucane Centre)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-aWb8ba7pQ&w=560&h=315] Albert Camus – “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free
Read moreThe Irish Times Portrayal of Bernadette Mc Aliskey and the North of Ireland
What’s wrong with this article on Bernadette McAliskey in The Irish Times by Kitty Holland? 1. It is in The Irish Times – that should have
Read moreSpy in the IRA – BBC Northern Ireland Spotlight
BBC Northern Ireland Spotlight’s “Spy in the IRA” is a very strange “investigative” piece as I don’t think I learned a
Read moreIn 1916 Centenary Year, shouldn’t we ask – Were “The Troubles” in the North of Ireland “a War”?
A recent article on the blog Slugger O’Toole titled Why the Irish can’t “get over” ‘The Troubles’ raises a number of great questions. It
Read more35 years since Bobby Sands Election – The 1981 Hunger Strike, Reaction and its Legacy
On 9 April 1981, with 30,492 votes, Bobby Sands won the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election following the death of Independent Republican MP, Frank
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