Comment on Flags, Churches, Politicians, Sectarianism and Ordinary People by CMK
How many of them also hold Irish passports? A big surprise in the States over twenty years ago was to meet people from the Falls and Bogside using their British passports to get into the US with much...
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That’s a fair point. I can’t see that as being a defining metric, not least because it is less easy to get RoI passports than UK ones.
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So you rely on your class politics and anti-sectarianism. Because its politically the right thing to do, rather than chasing support by pretending to be something you’re not. Devolved government offers...
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So for some reason unionist MLAs protested outside the office of Naomi Long where there was an attempt made to murder a police officer....
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Slightly related cheerful reading http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-12-10/presenting-fund-tastic-four-ireland-greece-spain-and-us Ireland, Greece, Spain and… the US? These are the four countries that...
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Can’t quite grasp that part of how interest rates at all time lows make economic growth impossible.
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on yard sticks what do people think about the identity question. 40% british, 25% Irish and 21% northern Irish. think the northern irish one is interesting. watching a few of the boards discussing it...
View ArticleComment on After the census… by Joe
That’s interesting. I wasn’t aware of that. What did they think would happen? What were they hoping for? Any historians out there who can tell us a bit more about this?
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ICTU mobilising for a Saturday in February against govt paying the next tranche of the Anglo Irish commitment yokey. MOBILISING.
View ArticleComment on Flags, Churches, Politicians, Sectarianism and Ordinary People by CL
Marx regarded England not as just another country; he said it should be treated as the metropolis of capital. Marx’s (and Engel’s) extensive writings on Ireland are essential to an understanding of the...
View ArticleComment on Flags, Churches, Politicians, Sectarianism and Ordinary People by CL
Pigmentation differences are not necessary to have alleged racial differences assigned. There is now a fairly extensive literature on the social construction of race. e.g. ‘How the Irish became White’,...
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I appreciate that CL, which is why I was saying notions of race as commonly held in Ireland, where it is often assumed to mean colour. But even if we exclude the issue of race, it is still relatively...
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Go raibh maith agat for the wee plug! Mise- Seoirse MacDomhnaill, administrator Official Republican/WP Archive
View ArticleComment on Flags, Churches, Politicians, Sectarianism and Ordinary People by CL
Sure, Gari, i see your point. My impression of the conflict in the North is that it is mainly a matter of political allegiance, and religion was previously taken as a marker of political allegiance....
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Paul Krugman has gone marxist! He claims that he has only copped the importance of the capital and labour relationship recently. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/human-versus-physical-capital/
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