Jun 18, 2012 | Features
You certainly learn something all the time and I was disappointed and annoyed to discover from Jenny Williams’ book on Hans Fallada (‘More Lives Than One’) that when he was imprisoned he was “rewarded not only by being promoted to the rank of a trustee but also by...
May 18, 2012 | Features
In an editorial on the 16th May in the US paper, the Irish Echo, ‘Standoff Turns On Credibility Of Threats’, Ray O’Hanlon raises the question of how credible are the claims by Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre in the Boston College archives case that there is a grave...
Mar 2, 2012 | Features
It opens with his mother and ends with a letter from his lover! ‘Living To Tell The Tale’ by Gabríel ‘Gabo’ Garcia Márquez, first published 2002 and translated by Edith Grossman is a wonderful read, full of insights and quotes. For example, this one attributed to...
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...
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...
Dec 13, 2011 | Features
Dr Jenny Farrell is a lecturer who lives in Galway but was born in Germany and lived in East Berlin for many years. In this obituary she pays tribute to the writer Christa Wolf who has just died: One of the most important 20th century German women writers, Christa...
