Dec 3, 2014 | Latest
A friend in the USA, Barbara, sent me this crazy animated video of a “Sinn Fein Christmas party” which I found hilarious! You’ll need to activate Quicktime on your computer. Enjoy! ElfYourself
Nov 27, 2014 | Features
Have just reviewed for a loyalist website (longkeshinsideout) former UVF prisoner, Plum Smith’s fascinating book about his time as a prisoner in Crumlin Road and Long Kesh. Here it is. SOME years ago I was on a panel in the Waterfront Hall along with Billy Hutchinson...
Nov 22, 2014 | Latest
Finished the final edit of West Belfast. Many thanks to Tina Neylon for the proofing and Seán Misteíl for the brilliant cover! Thomas Pago of Elsinor Verlag hopes to have the book out by early-to-mid-December. 1st November. At Nuremberg, Germany, the left-wing...
Oct 2, 2014 | Features
Almost one hundred years ago, fifteen of the leaders of the Easter Rising were executed by firing squad. In the case of six of the men the British hangman was brought over from England to officiate at their deaths. In August 1916 Roger Casement became the sixteenth...
Sep 20, 2014 | Features
Billy was born in 1911 in East Belfast. He became our most wonderful friend when we moved into Norfolk Drive. We saw him for the last time in a nursing home in Newcastle, County Down, on 9th May 2003. He died on the 18th May, 2003. The family home was not lost: his...
