Sep 8, 2011 | Latest
British Prime Minister David Cameron, speaking after the results of an inquiry into an Iraqi man Baha Mousa, who was beaten to death by British soldiers, said “such an incident should never happen again”. The same was said about here by Ted Heath after the revelations...
Sep 6, 2011 | Latest
Recently, a log was brought to my attention in which the dissident republican Anthony McIntyre, links me to the killing of a 26-year-old Shankill Road, Protestant man, Samuel Llewellyn. Back then, in July 1975, at 22, just out of internment and living under many...
Aug 10, 2011 | Latest
Interviewed along with Professor Keith Jeffrey on local BBC radio’s Good Morning Ulster on the subject of the 40th anniversary of the introduction of internment and the repercussions of that disastrous exercise in repression by the Ulster Unionist government,...
Jul 23, 2011 | Latest
Finished Stephen Walker’s excellent and moving account of the battle between Irish Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty in the Vatican during WWII and Gestapo Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Kappler who planned to assassinate O’Flaherty. O’Flaherty set up an escape line and saved the...
Jun 10, 2011 | Latest
Finished ‘Pornografia’ by Witold Gombrowicz (pictured, front page) and it will be a long time before I read one of his novels again. He, himself, is a character in the book and there is nothing impressive or provocative or memorable about the boring story of two...
May 17, 2011 | Latest
Was supposed to do an interview with RTE’s Pat Kenny this morning on the subject of Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Ireland but it had to be cancelled as it clashed with an event at Queen’s [!] University at which I am speaking. Having not recently been down South I can...
