Comment on Constance de Markievicz: Fact and Fiction – What do we really know...
O’Casey opposed the participation of Connolly and the ICA in the Rising – and he was correct to do so. Where he ended up politically does not mean he was automatically wrong on everything he said/did.
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by Bob Smiles
TheBrits could claim right to intervene here in future – imperial powers make up their rules
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Well Connolly was of course also a nationalist so its not surprising that he also seized the opportunity
View ArticleComment on This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to the… Breeders, Pod by JP
I went to see them play all of Last Splash in Belfast last year. To my surprise they encored with most of Pod which has been a constant in my life since I was about 16. It was a weirdly emotional to...
View ArticleComment on It’s the stuff you don’t expect that… by WorldbyStorm
Many, and their political leanings would be instructive.
View ArticleComment on It’s the stuff you don’t expect that… by WorldbyStorm
I think you’re right in relation to the media. But it does look bad for FG and it’s yet another little hassle they could well do with out. And I’m 100% sure you’re right re an ‘event’, but I’m thinking...
View ArticleComment on It’s the stuff you don’t expect that… by Bob Smiles
Flannery floated SF – FG coalition in 2009- ahead of his time?
View ArticleComment on Constance de Markievicz: Fact and Fiction – What do we really know...
Can you really be an effective socialist (or whatever) and not also appeal to nationalism? It’s all very well to appeal to “international camaraderie”, but most of those comrades are a very long way...
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Who exactly is she? From what Google reveals, she seems to be in the Harris mould.
View ArticleComment on What if: The Fianna Fáil/Labour government of 1992 hadn’t...
Yes. It’s crude, but effective.
View ArticleComment on What if: The Fianna Fáil/Labour government of 1992 hadn’t...
Bruton really didn’t want anything to do with a peace process. The whole decommissioning excuse nonsense got started on his watch.
View ArticleComment on It’s the stuff you don’t expect that… by EWI
I had a good laugh at Ruairí Quinn’s assertion that Flannery hadn’t lobbied him on Rehab, but had rather only talked to him about it in the (literal) corridors of power after gaining special access...
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Ann Mathews had a fairly lively debate with Shane MacThomais on radio last month. Well worth a listen....
View ArticleComment on The departure of our greatest living economist/economic...
hello!,I love your writing so a lot! proportion we be in contact extra approximately your post on AOL? I need an expert on this house to unravel my problem. Maybe that’s you! Taking a look ahead to...
View ArticleComment on Missing the point on the recovery? by Nessa Childers MEP...
I found that piece really vicious ans scary for that reason. Not least as I think he was saying what some don’t want to express out loud.
View ArticleComment on Services and manufacturing by Justin
“Well, maybe the LP in the UK will do that. Maybe.” Of course they won’t. The labour party may still have a level of working class support that other left groups can only dream of but we should be...
View ArticleComment on Missing the point on the recovery? by Jolly Red Giant
Tell us Nessa – can you explain the logic behind resigning from the pro-austerity neo-liberal LP and you’re decision to stand as a member of the pro-austerity neo-liberal EU parliament group that the...
View ArticleComment on Socialist Party Name Change by que
There is a danger here for the SP. Its getting hard to pin down the identity of the SP. In 2010 there was the SP, then in late 2010 there was the ULA, from soon enough in 2011 it was the SP, a part of...
View ArticleComment on Here’s an interesting thesis… by Bob Smiles
Any plans to publish- hard to take in all detail on screen
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