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 3, 2012 | Latest
On 30th December I wrote a short piece for the Irish News re the state papers. Did a number of interviews re the release of state papers under the thirty-year rule with specific reference to the I981 hunger strike. Was interviewed by BBC Radio Foyle, RTE television,...
Dec 9, 2011 | Latest
Have started ‘Soul Mountain’ by Nobel Literature Laureate Gao Xingjian who is also an established painter. The illustration here is from one of his ink paintings, ‘Recueillement’, roughly translated as ‘meditation’. ‘Soul Mountain’ has been patiently sitting on my...
Nov 7, 2011 | Latest
Am taking part in a panel discussion this Friday night in St Mary’s Grammar School, Glen Road, Belfast, which I attended in 1969/1970. Other speakers include my then contemporaries, the historian Dr Eamon Phoenix, and the solicitor and broadcaster, Tony Caher. The...
Oct 7, 2011 | Latest
Feature I wrote for the Irish Times, partly in response to journalist Peter Murtagh’s remarks a week earlier, but covering the wider issue of the hypocrisy and double-standards prevalent in the mainstream parties in the South was published. 1st October. Publicly...
Sep 13, 2011 | Latest
Wrote a piece about the Boston College’s flawed archive on the conflict, which was produced by two people hostile to the Republican Movement given carte blanche, Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre. The feature was published in today’s Irish Voice in the USA. – link here....
