June, 2016

LEAVING HOME

In a matter of days ,those who care about such things will go to the polling stations and vote to either remain in the European Union or to leave it forever. I will vote to stay within this fellowship for many reasons, not least because I see our world, not simply as a group of […]

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AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE COVENANT by Donal Lavery

   (My apologies – this first went up as being authored by Donal Kennedy. It is in fact by Donal Lavery. Mea culpa… – Jude)  I had a eureka moment recently and decided I would try to write a pocket size document which sets out a republican agenda and principles to be advanced upon – […]

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STANDING HISTORY ON ITS HEAD by Donal Kennedy

Last year the Vietnamese staged a military parade celebrating forty years since they liberated themselves from foreign aggression. It was a parade, not a coat-trailing, sabre-rattling exercise like NATO’s provocative manoeuvres on Russia’s borders, which Germany’s Foreign Minister, alone among western statesmen or women, recently denounced. What, you may ask, has Ireland’s Foreign Minister, Charlie […]

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COMMEMORATIONS AND THINGS WORTH REMEMBERING by Michael J Cummings

  Every June Britain’s armed services officially celebrate the monarch’s birthday with the Trooping of the Color.  Each regimental band recalls a victory like Trafalgar and Waterloo and marches before the Queen.   It is an impressive and bellicose event I first witnessed in 1972.  The ceremonies’ sole purpose is to thrill the great unwashed and […]

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Did Danny get it right?

If you watched the 15-minute video of the Periscope interview about BREXIT  I did with Danny Morrison (I finally managed to post it successfully), you’ve probably got your own ideas about what he said that was important and what wasn’t. Thinking back on it overnight, and poised as we are on the edge of what […]

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ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE – reviewed by Donal Kennedy

  ALL HELL LET LOOSE The World at War 1939-1945 by Max Hastings 748 pp h/b Reviewed by Donal Kennedy Harper Press ISBN 978-0-00-773809-2A review in the Sunday Times calls this work “Unquestionably the best single-volume history of the war ever written.” Hastings himself reviews book in that paper and I always enjoy them. So perhaps the praise […]

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BREXIT INTERVIEW

I’m planning to do a BREXIT interview with Danny Morrison on Periscope at 2.30 pm today. Tune in and ask a question (assuming I can get the damned thing working properly)…

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