Tom Shippey Discusses JRR Tolkien’s Beowulf Translation In Three Video Lectures
JRR Tolkien began to write a tentative prose edition of the Medieval epic poem, Beowulf, while teaching at the University of Leeds inContinue Reading
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Dermot Ahern, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Predicts Significant Brexit Border
Here is Dermot Ahern, the former Fianna Fáil TD for Louth and a senior minister in several FF-led governments from 1997Continue Reading
The DUP Vows To Skin The Irish Crocodiles And Turn Them Into Union Jack Handbags
Talking of colonial supremacists, here is Arlene Foster, the beleaguered leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and her latest contributionContinue Reading
Sir Edward Carson And The Politics Of Ulster Unionist Alt-Democracy
Before Donald J Trump, before the politics of the alt-right in the United States, there was Sir Edward Carson and theContinue Reading
Two Blade Runner Fan Films, Slice Of Life And Tears In The Rain
There are two short films dong the rounds at the moment, both inspired by Ridley Scott’s seminal 1982 science-fiction release,Continue Reading
Mick Wallace: NAMA Is Rotten To The Core
Whatever one’s feeling about the past business affairs of Mick Wallace, there is no doubt that the Independents 4 ChangeContinue Reading
Kellyanne Conway And The Bowling Green Massacre
From across the wide Atlantic its seems that the White House administration of Donald J Trump is stumbling from one duplicitousContinue Reading
The Séamus Ludlow Murder, How Ireland And Britain Conspired In A Cover-Up
Forty-seven year old Séamus Ludlow, a quiet, unassuming life-long bachelor, was something of a man of habit. On the afternoonContinue Reading
Waterboarding And Electric Shock Torture, Britain’s Dirty War In Ireland
Since the effective end of the conflict in the north-east of Ireland, the so-called Irish-British Troubles, a few inquisitive elements ofContinue Reading
The Nerd Crew, Episode 2
Red Letter Media are back with a second episode of the Nerd Crew podcast, which includes such observational nuggets as, “TheContinue Reading
Latest LucidTalk – Belfast Telegraph Assembly Poll. Is The DUP In Trouble?
Like many other observers I’m somewhat sceptical about the validity of election polling in the north-east of the country. DespiteContinue Reading
An Islamic State Drone Bombs An M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank In Iraq
Talking of the Islamic State (IS), this recent propaganda video released by the group highlights its deployment of improvised drones in theContinue Reading
From Margaret Thatcher And The Valiant UVF, To WebOps And Palestinian Salad
By the late 1960s over four decades had passed since the United Kingdom had given concerted attention to the internal affairs ofContinue Reading
Appeasing The Orange Trumps Of British Unionism In Ireland Has Failed
It’s sometimes difficult to remember that there is a distinction to be drawn between unionists as an ethno-national minority inContinue Reading
Former British Army Commander Turned Politician, I Was A Torturer In Ireland
Bob Stewart, a Conservative MP in London and a former military commander, has blithely admitted that he acted as “…a kind of aContinue Reading
An Orange Hall, A Grant, A Mysterious Address And The DUP
Talking of Irish political scandals, it seems that ideological unionism simply cannot help itself. Put to one side the involvement ofContinue Reading
Ireland’s Homeless Crisis, When Party Ideology Trumps Government Duty
A full seven days late, the latest figures from the government show that 7,148 people were in emergency accommodation at theContinue Reading
Latvia Becomes The New Frontline In The Cold War Between NATO And Russia
Since 2014 Russia and NATO have significantly increased their military presence in the Baltics, especially along the Latvian-Russian border. With a largeContinue Reading
So Far, The Cash-For-Ash Scandal Is A Very Unionist Affair
With the election to the cross-community assembly in the north-east of the country due to take place on the 2nd ofContinue Reading
Iain McCaig, From The Forest Of Doom To The Broadsword And The Beast
Though he illustrated only a handful of publications in the Fighting Fantasy line of roleplaying gamebooks by Steve Jackson andContinue Reading
Britain’s Duplicitous Interpretation Of The Good Friday Agreement Of 1998
As many observers expected, this morning’s judgement by the supreme court in the United Kingdom has thrown not just the Brexit plansContinue Reading
Guy Verhofstadt, The EU’s Brexit Negotiator And The United States Of Europe
Over the last decade I have moved from being a passionate believer in the European Union to someone who isContinue Reading
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