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offaly / history and heritage Tuesday May 30, 2006 - 17:03 by Pat Muldowney
 74 comments (last - friday june 19, 2009 - 19:58)  2 images
Alan Stanley’s book describes the death of the Pearson brothers using a variety of sources: (1) The contemporary (July 7 1921) account in the Unionist newspaper “The King’s County Chronicle, Parsonstown” (King’s County and Parsonstown are, respectively, Co. Offaly and Birr) which quotes their sister Matilda Pearson on her brothers’ death and the burning of their house; (2) A 1983 description by a surviving Pearson brother David Pearson in Australia; (3) A summary of descriptions of those events by William Stanley who was with the Pearson brothers when they were arrested and who subsequently lived in Carlow until his death in 1981; (4) A number of comments gathered by Alan Stanley, mostly from Protestant neighbours and relatives of the Pearsons after 1981, and principally from Tom Mitchell of Kinnitty near Coolacrease. The page numbers refer to the edition of Stanley's book published July 2005. ... read full story / add a comment
leitrim / history and heritage Tuesday May 30, 2006 - 13:13 by woman
9 comments (last - sunday march 30, 2008 - 16:46)
Historic movies about ireland seem to always make it big on the big screen but at what costs? Whose authorisation is required ? What about the famine? The mass grave where 5000 poor of the district were buried near my house is also a story to tell! Why can't a fim maker make a movie about the great famine? So that Irish Americans can see what their forefathers lived through before emigrating to the USA. This is a story that needs to be told! From the fact that the people were to starve, food supplies they needed withdrawn from them, workhouses, emigration aboard coffun ships etc. The world needs to know!!! ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday May 30, 2006 - 04:05 by Geof Bard
6 comments (last - thursday june 01, 2006 - 12:26)
American fiddle player Geof Bard, a generalist known to appear at an occasional Irish sessions on the US west coast, occasionally attacks a guitar, and has been blasting Blair on the airwaves with his fiddle and this adaptation of WIJ, a tune which is occasionally, erroneously known in the states as "Killkenny Mountain". Wildly popular with Americans, the tune lends itself well to satire. Use at will. First publication worldwide. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Tuesday May 30, 2006 - 00:37 by the planter's daughter
9 comments (last - saturday may 26, 2007 - 16:47) 9 images
I am very concerned that too much attention is being given in Irish publick life and general discourse to small & confined groups of people. One lot use letters, Mr A., witness B., chid C., Fr D., ex-Fr E., on holidays now still Fr F., not yet heard victim G., not yet other heard victim H., seen on TV but not let in give testinomy victims I through to U, recently deceased person V, poor little case X,............. need I go on? Oh yes. Then there's the Government & the news casters / readers / journalists, & the courts, & the really holy clergy, and Bono, who seem to get all the attention. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday May 29, 2006 - 11:06 by W.Finnerty
47 comments (last - saturday may 07, 2022 - 14:48) 1 image
For future reference purposes, a copy of the e-mail to several well known leaders reproduced below has now been placed at the following address: http://www.europeancourtofhumanrightswilliamfinnerty.co...l.htm Some may be interested to know that the version at the above address shows Yahoo message identification and tracking information. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday May 29, 2006 - 07:30 by alyn ap gruffydd
Veteran English Radical Film Director Ken Loach`s Film "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" gives a new historical interpretation to the Irish Civil War and Engliah Imperialism. Scottish Scriptwriter Paul Laverty is no less radical, this 8` radio interview treats the political messages in the film and offers a critique of modern day Ireland since it became the neo liberal Celtic Tiger. Music by Dead Can`t Dance and Dick Gaughan ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday May 28, 2006 - 04:01 by Seán Ryan
3 comments (last - wednesday october 25, 2006 - 20:57) 1 image
Top Marine General flew to Iraq last Thursday to tell the Marines not to commit War-Crimes. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-capitalism Friday May 26, 2006 - 14:48 by we are led by nasty rich snobs who waste our lives
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The punk band Zounds sang 'subvert, subvert' about anarchists/working class people infiltrating the middle class domain of work, to change and subvert it. MI5/6/Special branch have been doing the same in reverse for decades, placing operatives within working class communities and trade unions in order to destroy and subvert whole communities and organisations. Many of these operatives like Denis Donaldson etc, have blended into and become established within working class commuities for many decades. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Friday May 26, 2006 - 01:39 by king Herod
20 comments (last - wednesday may 09, 2007 - 22:29) 11 images
Pope Benedict XVI the supreme moral authority for most citizens of the Irish Republic has begun his 4 day visit to Poland, during which he will speak against feminism, gay marriage, abortion, liberalism, contraception, & sex education. For those of you who don't know who pope Benedict XVI is, or why he is newsworthy.... A long time ago the archangel Gabriel appeared to a teenage girl in Palestine commonly called Mary, she was most probably aged between 14 and 16 based on customs of the time. The archangel told her that she was pregnant but wasn't to get too uptight about it.... It wasn't going to be a crime.... Because she'd have a virgin birth without DNA samples and her baby would be called Emanuel / Jesus / Brian & he'd be really famous and end up starring in the first Good Friday Agreement, and Michael Mc Dowell the sinful capitalist liberal hadn't been accounted for in the divine plan. Of course all the frothy stuff got removed over the centuries, and now we know better. Pope Benedict, the German Shepherd, Papa Ratzi, has been well prepared for by his hosts the former communist & bolshevik, Poland. The Polish government has banned adverts for items which might upset him or the memory of Mary the virgin teenager. 1) tampons.(+) 2) condoms. 3) beer. 4) lingerie (what Mary Harney wears underneath her suits) ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday May 25, 2006 - 14:38 by Liam Mullen
9 comments (last - monday june 15, 2009 - 10:51)
Although FAS JobsIreland have been in the news a lot lately regarding their proposed move under decentralisation, many of their job advertisements in recent months seem designed to promote illegal immigration. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Thursday May 25, 2006 - 14:01 by chekov
In the Sunday Independent of May 21st, Gene Kerrigan pointed out that the leaks of the Tribal Secta reports into the health service, which were reported as front page news by the Sunday Independent on several occasions, were misrepresentations of the whole truth. Unfortunately, the editor seems happy to continue the tradition, as evidenced by the front page of the edition in which Kerrigan’s article appeared. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday May 24, 2006 - 01:50 by jim travers
The Celtic tiger in the Republic of Ireland has shown that Protestants and Catholics on the island of Ireland can work and live in peace and harmony with one another, once the society they live in accommodates that need. See also: Opinion/analysis- Dublin-Miscellaneous.....jim travers ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Wednesday May 24, 2006 - 01:13 by jim travers
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Commodity is one of the basic fundamental requirements that enable the capitalist system to operate in a world of varied political, religious and multi-racial societies. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Tuesday May 23, 2006 - 18:16 by Liam Ó Maoláin
12 comments (last - monday november 17, 2008 - 16:43)
A review in Irish of the the Irish media scene. Native Irish speakers should ignore any errors on my part in relation to grammar etc. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday May 23, 2006 - 17:40 by Liam Ó Maoláin
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The assumptions lying behind “mass communications research” have altered in the light of new evidence thrown up in a report published in 1970, entitled “Demonstrations and Communications.” (Halloran, Elliott and Murdock ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday May 23, 2006 - 16:32 by Liam Mullen
Audiences see TV as a producer of news and entertainment products but in fact its core role is producing ideologies. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday May 22, 2006 - 23:11 by Patrique
94 comments (last - monday august 13, 2007 - 21:57) 1 image
NIPSA conference meets next week to decide policies and principles. But who decides these, the members and branches, or General Council. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice Monday May 22, 2006 - 17:22 by iosaf
6 comments (last - friday september 29, 2006 - 13:55) 1 image
Mc Dowell wanted us to ponder this :- "Probably the most important one is that the United Nations high commissioner's representative in Ireland and his predecessor have both pointed to the fact that the Irish system is one of the best in Europe and that it's a good and fair one and that it's transparent, that it's subject to judicial review." Most of us of course disagree. But one word of Mc Dowell's statement made last week & republished again in today's Irish Times screams out for more attention :- "Transparent". ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday May 21, 2006 - 23:41 by Hs
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On Saturday we witnessed one of Ireland’s first organised racist counter demonstrations. The demonstrators while being made up of what can only be described as very disenfranchised poor who were joined in the evenings by an assortment of drunks. But there was at least on Saturday afternoon a number of ordinary working class residents who were angered at the attention being drawn to the refugees, while their local area suffered huge social problems. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday May 21, 2006 - 16:14 by sean
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marginalised anti hunger strike protestors ... read full story / add a comment |
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