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national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday June 23, 2006 19:16 by Brian
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I just hope to show that Secret Societies or groups sometimes exercise great power in Western countries and that Ireland has not escaped this phenomenon. read full story / add a comment 
clare / anti-war / imperialism / feature Friday June 23, 2006 17:14 by Conor Cregan
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While Driving through Ennis town yesterday afternoon a local anti-war activist put six young US service men under (citizens) arrest. On Thursday morning an US troop carrier landed at Shannon with technical problems. This is a common occurrence with the chartered troop carriers that come through Shannon Airport. With an average of 1100 hundred troops going through Irelands second international airport on a nightly basis these aircraft are flat out ferrying young men and women to Iraq. Many of these stranded soldiers were billeted at the West County Hotel in Ennis near where peace activist Conor Cregan encountered six young US servicemen on the main Ennis to Limerick road. read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage / other press Friday June 23, 2006 11:21 by Luke Gibbons
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Families divided by ideals Ken Loach's award-winning The Wind That Shakes the Barley captures the tragic texture of the War of Independence and the Civil War, writes Luke Gibbons At one point in The Wind That Shakes the Barley, an Irish audience is depicted watching a film about the War of Independence that gives rise to uproar in the cinema. The film is a newsreel outlining the details of the Treaty that had just been negotiated between the Sinn Féin delegation led by Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith, and the British cabinet fronted by Lloyd George and Winston Churchill. Responding initially with cheers, the mood of the audience divides and darkens as the realities of the historic compromise are spelled out on the screen. In this we have, perhaps, a dress rehearsal for Ken Loach's work since the 1960s, which has managed not just to entertain but to agitate audiences and bring viewers, in more ways than one, to their feet. read full story / add a comment 
cork / history and heritage / other press Friday June 23, 2006 02:25 by Ellen Wilkinson
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TV review: Documentariy on the making of The Wind that Shakes the Barley Good in parts 'Rebel County' Hidden History. RTE 1 Tuesday, 13 June. Pat Collins, Producer/Director, Harvest Films This documentary on the War of Independence in Cork, using Ken Loach's prize winning The Wind that Shakes the Barely as a backdrop was, like the curate's egg, good in parts. Interviews with Ken Loach, Scriptwriter Paul Laverty, academic historians and relatives of those who fought, illustrated the fight against the RIC, Tans, Auxiliaries and regular British forces. The story of the "ordinary people" who in Ken Loach's words "were able to shake the might of the Empire" was well expressed. So too was the effect on the community of the torture and executions of IRA prisoners. Post-torture photographs of Tom Hales and Pat Harte, hit with hammers and their fingernails pulled out, and with Harte forced to hold up a Union Jack, was reminiscent of more recent US torture in Abu Ghraib, read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday June 23, 2006 01:11 by Shell to Sea
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Rossport Solidarity Camp/Shell to Sea Fundraiser Gig at Saturday July 22nd at Eamon Doran's An eclectic mix of music featuring: Flash McFrankenstein (rock/brass) Alan Can't (comedy rock) Love Pop Suicide (alternative progressive metal) Hardcore Priests of Yemen (reggae rock) Tickets €10/7.50 - All the proceeds will go to the Rossport Solidarity camp and the Shell to Sea campaign more details from Martin at the email address shown read full story / add a comment 
dublin / environment / event notice Friday June 23, 2006 00:19 by Shell to Sea
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Thursday July 13th The Dublin Shell to Sea Table Quiz is organised for Thursday the 13th of July in Doyles Pub (opposite Trinity College, near Pearse Street Garda Station). It runs from 8pm to 11pm and teams of 4 will compete in ten rounds of questions. The entry fee is 20 euro per table with great prizes for the winning teams, there are also fun spot prizes in the raffle. All funds raised will go to the Shell to Sea campaign. For further info about the quiz call Sinéad on 0876411984 read full story / add a comment |
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