Oct 30, 2013 | Latest
Last Saturday I met Olga Mamonova Baker an art collector and exhibitor of 20th century Russian paintings who manages the East Hill Gallery in London. She had been going to Armagh later that afternoon for some political events but caught an earlier flight in order to...
Oct 29, 2013 | Features
And now I have to try to retrieve the novel Life and Fate which I lent to a friend two years ago before I had read it myself! Recently I finished (pictured, front) Vasily Grossman’s A Writer at War culled from the notebooks he used as a war correspondent for Red Star,...
Oct 28, 2013 | Latest
Last Saturday, as chair of Féile an Phobail, I hosted the book launch of Lethal Allies by Anne Cadwallader of the Pat Finucane Centre. A very large crowd attended the event in St Mary’s University College to hear harrowing accounts of state collusion with...
Oct 23, 2013 | Features
Tony Novosel’s excellent and substantial analysis, ‘Where Do We Go From Here’ (October 14th) on Eamonn Mallie’s website, should be read and considered by both loyalists and republicans. My own view is that the flag and Twaddell protests will...
Oct 22, 2013 | Latest
BBC’s flagship documentary programme Spotlight is, incredibly, forty years old this week! I remember watching it back in October 1973 in Cage 2, Long Kesh, along with seventy other internees on a small black and white television mounted on the back wall of the...
