Comment on This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to ’1980s Rebel Soul’ by...
Direct Motown connection- Jimmy Ruffin of What Becomes of the Broken hearted appears on this benefit for the miners Soul Deep:
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Redskins had their moments – you already have Bring It Down but Plateful of Hateful rips off some of Shaft if I’m not mistaken
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Last but not least- you have to credit Hue and Cry for a chorus that goes ‘I’m gonna withdraw my labour of love, gonna strike for the right to get into your cold heart…ain’t gonna work for you no...
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Definitely the last…nobody will want to be reminded of this but Simply Red were considered left-wing around the time of ‘Moneys too tight to mention’ and that worked out really well, didn’t it?
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 15th of January, 2014 by EWI
The origin, the very primary purpose of the RIC was to gather intelligence and hold Ireland against rebellion. I’m guessing Stevie is another of those who count the Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries...
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Comment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by EWI
Didn’t they outsource all the sub-editing and such? I recall seeing wire reports lying around RTÉ in the Eighties (just visiting), with pen insertions of “the North”, etc.
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I’ve not not robbed a bank.
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Hazel O’Connor singing Will You? (from the movie Breaking Glass with some great sax, from around 1981. This I think was her only good song.
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by Jack Jameson
I suppose it’s a bit like today’s Daily Star Sunday with a Tricolour slapped on the masthead but the content almost all (if not all bar the weather and Lotto results on Page 2) clearly from the British...
View ArticleComment on Mission Accomplished… by CL
Looks like the Minister for Foreign Affairs is going to be busy with the country next door. -”But TUV leader Jim Allister – whose party was opposed to the Richard Haass talks – said Mr Gilmore should...
View ArticleComment on Mission Accomplished… by Eamonncork
Because the moral and political legitimacy of any Taoiseach who hasn’t made Eoghan Harris a senator is deeply questionable.
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You see with a lot of the right-wingers in this jurisdiction, particularly the younger generation who plugged in early to wingnut welfare, here and abroad (McGuirk, Waghorne etc. and a lot of the rest...
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I’ve never understood why Redmond’s National League was prepared to bring down the CnaG government and vote for a Labour Taoiseach supported by Fianna Fail. Any insights?
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Connected to nothing else going on hereabouts, but I’m enthusiastic about this concept. I’ve started the course on climate change, and think the whole concept could really grow....
View ArticleComment on Mission Accomplished… by richotto
“to smarten up their act a bit,think a bit more and give those protest voters more positive reasons I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on how exactly they should “smarten up”, “think a bit more”...
View ArticleComment on Changed times… to an extent by Mick Hall
Something strange here perhaps, we are being asked to believe Paisley was told to remove himself from public life in the north, and within the allotted time frame he was gone. These people were some of...
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Unfortunately, there are none where I am. Might have to wait until next trip to Dublin….
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That “trend” certainly exists in the historiography of the CPGB, and is generally associated with sympathetic historians who want to rescue something from the experience of that party – usually by...
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There’s a copy in TCD library.
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