Comment on Tony Benn – 1925 to 2014 by roddy
According to Gilmour ,if you don’t follow the neo unionist line your views are “controversial “
View ArticleComment on For the death and black metal fans in the audience… by Enzo
Was walking around UCC a couple of years back and passed a girl wearing a Death in June shirt with the totenkopf and everything. The eyes nearly bulged out of my head.
View ArticleComment on Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to...
“Catastrophism explores the politics of apocalypse—on the left and right, in the environmental movement—and examines why the lens of catastrophe can distort our understanding of the dynamics at the...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 12th March 2014 by Starkadder
Two pieces of interest I found. First, the Progressive magazine calls out some irressponsible scaremongering over the disappearance of the Malayasian airliner:...
View ArticleComment on Tony Benn – 1925 to 2014 by ejh
Mmm. There’s probably too much to say, to be honest. I will say that his deputy leadership campaign was probably the last time it was really possible to believe that Britain might become a socialist...
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by CL
“HE SHALL not hear the bittern cry In the wild sky, where he is lain, Nor voices of the sweeter birds, Above the wailing of the rain.” -Francis Ledwidge, ‘Lament for Thomas MacDonagh’.
View ArticleComment on Who is the second longest serving columnist at the Irish Times? by...
If cranium size were the issue, cats wouldn’t be smarter than people.
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by EWI
That’s Francis Ledwidge the Sneaking Regarder Hush Puppy. Different artist altogether.
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by Starkadder
I was under the impression we already honoured Irish soldiers who perished in the Great War. I suspect I’m in a minority here in admiring Daniel O’Connell, but I hardly feel he needs a “cult” of any...
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by roddy
I suspect I’m in a minority here too but Luke Kelly belting out “the foggy dew” sums it up for me : “Had they died by Pearses side or fought with Cahal Brugha. Then their names we would keep where the...
View ArticleComment on From the Guardian: Tony Benn, 1980 interview: ‘Our loss to...
I blogged about this interview the other day here: http://hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/tony-benn-interviewed-by-eric-hobsbawm-1980/ The full interview can be found here:...
View ArticleComment on Left Archive: A New Nationalism for the New Ireland – Desmond...
You supported the imperialists in Ireland,were described by Jim Prior as his favourite party and accommodated Harris ,Bew and their ilk within your ranks.You voted in the dail for extradition to...
View ArticleComment on Left Archive: A New Nationalism for the New Ireland – Desmond...
Amazing how a slight discussion about Desmond Fennell has switched to a raking over the embers of a vicious sticky-provo feud.
View ArticleComment on Left Archive: A New Nationalism for the New Ireland – Desmond...
Classic whataboutery. Perhaps you should spend more time on Sluggerotoole.
View ArticleComment on The legacy of Michael Collins… coming soon! by Michael Carley
Someone here will know enough to give a bit of background: how would Thomas Ashe fit into this picture, if he had lived?
View ArticleComment on Left Archive: A New Nationalism for the New Ireland – Desmond...
Slugger is also an anti SF hatefest where you would be welcomed with open arms.
View ArticleComment on Left Archive: A New Nationalism for the New Ireland – Desmond...
“also an anti SF hatefest” So CLR is one of these then? News to whoever sends the An Phoblacht stuff every month I imagine. Like I say, I’m enjoying your comments on this thread.
View ArticleComment on Left Archive: A New Nationalism for the New Ireland – Desmond...
CLR is a site that gives a fair hearing to all views .The anti SF hatefest I was referring to was the TV programme that Garland so enthusiastically participated in.Harris has you well schooled in the...
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