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When were these Halcyon Days of the Media?

October 28, 2017January 2, 2018 Peter BBC, Bobby Sands, Bobby Sands By Election, Denis Halliday, Edmund Burke Theatre, Enda Kenny, Gemma O Doherty, Halcyon days, Hunger Strikes, IRA, IRA Chief of Staff, John Pilger, Media Bias, Nelson Mandela, Northern Ireland, Paramilitary, President Mary Mc Aleese, Seán Mac Stiofáin, Section 31, Terrorist, The Troubles, Trinity College Dublin, UVF

(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…’

March 12, 2017 Peter A State in Denial, Anne Cadwallader, Belfast, brexit, British collusion, Collusion, David Ervine, Dublin Monaghan Bombings, Edward Carson, flags dispute, Flegs, Good Friday Agreement, Ian Paisley, IRA, Irish republican, legacy issues, Lethal Allies, loyalist, Margaret Urwin, Northern Ireland, PSNI, RUC, Shankill Butchers, Sinn Féin, Twaddell, UDA, UFF, unionist, united Ireland, UVF

In response to reposting this article – A United Ireland is Inevitable – and after reading it too, I was

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EPISODE 5 – BaldPolitiKs – 21 December 2016 (Anne Cadwallader – Pat Finucane Centre)

December 24, 2016 Peter Anne Cadwallader, British collusion, British Secret Service, Collusion, Dublin Monaghan Bombings, IRA, James Brokenshire, Lethal Allies, Margaret Urwin, MI5, MI6, MRF, Pat Finucane, Pat Finucane Centre, Sean Murray, State of Denial, UDA, UFF, Unquiet Graves, UVF

[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

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In 1916 Centenary Year, shouldn’t we ask – Were “The Troubles” in the North of Ireland “a War”?

April 30, 2016 Peter 1916, 1916 Rising, 1966 Jubilee, 1969, 6 counties, B Specials, Battle of the Bogside, Bogside, Bogside Murals, Cambodia, Definition of War, Der Vertriebenen, Dirty War, Free Derry, Gerrymandering, IRA, Khmer Rouge, loyalists, Normalisation, Northern Ireland, Pol Pot, PSNI, Republicans, Roy Mason, RUC, Rwanda, Samuel Thompson, Secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Serbia Croatia, Slugger O' Toole, The Troubles, Tokyo Olympics, UFF, Ulsterisation, UVF, Viet Cong, Vietnam, Yugoslavia

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