Author Jude Collins

Malachi, me and that movie

I’m just back from a debate (?) on  BBC Raidio Uladh/Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence. My sparring partner was Malachi O’Doherty, who is a good example of someone whom I like but whose opinions on most things I disagree with. This time we were disagreeing about the film Mea Maxima Culpa, which is (or certainly was) showing […]

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Malachi, me and that movie

I’m just back from a debate (?) on  BBC Raidio Uladh/Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence. My sparring partner was Malachi O’Doherty, who is a good example of someone whom I like but whose opinions on most things I disagree with. This time we were disagreeing about the film Mea Maxima Culpa, which is (or certainly was) showing […]

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An interview with Davy Adams

[This is an edited version of the interview in my book ‘Whose Past Is It Anyway?’] Davy Adams was involved in the struggle from his earliest years. No, not the political struggle – the struggle to put bread on the table. He is one of ten children and that was their everyday worry – getting […]

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An interview with Davy Adams

[This is an edited version of the interview in my book ‘Whose Past Is It Anyway?’] Davy Adams was involved in the struggle from his earliest years. No, not the political struggle – the struggle to put bread on the table. He is one of ten children and that was their everyday worry – getting […]

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Action and reaction

Ill-informed Person:  Why is there unionist opposition to the appointment of Rosa McLaughlin as Vice-Principal of St Mary’s College in Derry? I thought unionists weren’t interested in Catholic education. Know-it-all Person:  It’s different this time. Rosa McLaughlin was once in the IRA and served a three-year prison sentence.  Ill-informed Person: But she’s out now. Know-it-all […]

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Action and reaction

Ill-informed Person:  Why is there unionist opposition to the appointment of Rosa McLaughlin as Vice-Principal of St Mary’s College in Derry? I thought unionists weren’t interested in Catholic education. Know-it-all Person:  It’s different this time. Rosa McLaughlin was once in the IRA and served a three-year prison sentence.  Ill-informed Person: But she’s out now. Know-it-all […]

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