OK – no politics today. Well, sort of but not full frontal politics. A year or so ago I found myself in what some geographical illiterates call ‘the North-West’ – in Portstewart, to be exact. Up for the day, a nice walk along that fabulous beach, a bit of lunch. Now as you maybe know I […]
Author Jude Collins
Looking for something stupid and cack-handed? Try Portstewart
OK – no politics today. Well, sort of but not full frontal politics. A year or so ago I found myself in what some geographical illiterates call ‘the North-West’ – in Portstewart, to be exact. Up for the day, a nice walk along that fabulous beach, a bit of lunch. Now as you maybe know I […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A rose by any other name…
I think Herr S Freud would have enjoyed this one…(No prizes for the eagle-eyed, sorry)
A rose by any other name…
I think Herr S Freud would have enjoyed this one…(No prizes for the eagle-eyed, sorry)
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 […]
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 […]