Feb 21, 2012 | Latest
On the way back from Dublin airport on Saturday I decided to come off the motorway before the toll and went into Drogheda to spend an hour or two. Found a free parking space, near pensioners’ bungalows just off Scarlet Street, and in the glorious morning sun, walked...
Feb 8, 2012 | Features
Tommy McKearney is probably the most articulate of all those former activists who left the mainstream Republican Movement. He is deeply committed, thoughtful, without bile or bitterness, more a dissenter than a dissident (to use that unfortunate, pejorative word which...
Feb 8, 2012 | Latest
Finished the novel ‘A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers’ by Xiaolu Guo, published in 2007, the diary of Zhuang Xiao Qiao, a young Chinese woman who comes to London to learn English. The almost-charming book, written in mangled English, is funny and...
Jan 28, 2012 | Latest
Today, 28th January, I bought a lot of books on one of my regular raids on the War on Want & Oxfam bookshops on Botanic Avenue; and in NO ALIBIS shop got a hardback copy of ‘Chandler – Later Novels & Other Writings’. So, for £8.75 in the War on Want shop I got...
Jan 12, 2012 | Features
A feature I wrote for the Andersonstown News about the recently released 1981 state papers was published today (12th January). In it I disprove Richard O’Rawe’s allegations that the leadership of the Movement allowed six prisoners to die in order to get Owen Carron...
