Posted By: June 20, 2019
Party’s real decision is where to position itself in relation to frontrunner’s Brexit strategyNewton Emerson. Irish Times. Dublin. Thursday, June 13, 2019.No candidate for the Conservative leadership can govern without the DUP. That bald fact of parliamentary arithmetic is not receiving the attention it deserves, even in Northern Ireland. Perhaps it is just too exhausting to contemplate in these endlessly complicated […]
Posted By: June 20, 2019
Brian Feeney. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, June 19, 2019 Shock, horror, sensation! Someone wrote what’s staring everyone in the face about Belfast’s murals.Fodor’s Travel Guide wrote that murals in Protestant areas like the Newtownards Road and the Shankill “sometimes look like war comics without the humor.” On the other hand, murals in Catholic districts are ‘wildly romantic’ and express ‘themes […]
Posted By: June 18, 2019
https://pulitzercenter.org/blog/filmmaker-shares-thoughts-after-us-premiere-ballymurphy-precedent Filmmaker Shares Thoughts After U.S. Premiere of ‘The Ballymurphy Precedent’ June 17, 2019 | General news BY DAN HAVERTY [The back of Fr. McManus’ head and Barbara Flaherty’s head are in the foreground, Irish National Caucus.] Film director Callum Macrae speaks with Pulitzer Center Contributing Editor Kem Sawyer. Image by Dan Haverty. Washington, D.C., 2019. […]
Posted By: June 17, 2019
Conservative hardliners are not interested in NI; their mission is to get BoJo into Number 10 Alban Maginness . Belfast Telegraph. April 3 2019 Sir Edward Carson, reflecting on the struggle against Home Rule and the partitioning of Ireland, ruefully stated: “I was only a puppet, and so was Ulster, and so […]
Posted By: June 16, 2019
Alex Gibney. The New York Review of Books. February 22, 2019 On August 31, 2018, I was in the Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, waiting for my flight to New York, when I received this text on WhatsApp: “Trevor and Barry had their doors kicked in this morning in dawn raids and are presently in […]
