You know those days. The ones where the flavour of life has been sucked away, when dark clouds loom, when you wonder what the point was in getting out of bed in the first place. I’m pleased to report that those are rare occurrences with me. But when they do happen, I like to read […]
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‘1916: a toxic thread of physical violence?’ by Donal Kennedy
“Nineteen-sixteen introduced a terribly-toxic thread of physical violence, and we’ve had a century of it ever since.” Thus Ruth Dudley Edwards is quoted in THE IRISH TIMES Weekend Review of 2nd January. Ms Dudley Edwards was born in Dublin in 1944 and has lived there much of her life. Dublin has suffered little violence since […]
That handshake vs locking yourself in the past and swallowing the key
Picture by odcat1 I was on the Nolan Show this morning, with Jim Allister and Ruth Dudley Edwards. The topic, of course, was the upcoming handshake of Gerry Adams with Prince Charles in Galway, as the Windsor One heads for Mullaghmore and the site of his great-uncle’s killing. Jim, predictably, found a lot to […]
Talking about Ruth and age
Man 1: What do you think of old Ruth? Man 2: Old Ruth who? Man 2: There’s only one old Ruth – Dudley Edwards. Man 1: That’s got the makings of a chant in it: ‘There’s only one Ruth Dudley Edwards, one Ruth Dudley Eeeeedwards…’ Man 2: Yes but why do you call her ‘old […]
Three reasons to be cheerful: today’s Sindo
This has to be one of the coldest, wettest, bleakest Sundays we’ve had this winter. If we were characters in a Russian novel, it’s on a day like today that Ivor would go out and hang himself in the barn. But not if he had s copy of today’s Sindo. If he had, he’d be laughing madly and opening a […]
Ruth Dudley Edwards gets bare-knuckled
Brace yourselves. Just as politicians with an eye on Westminster have started getting in some serious shadow-boxing, so too those with an eye to boosting their favoured party via the media have pulled out the singlet and wriggled into the shorts. (No, no boxing gloves involved, Virginia. This is bare-knuckle stuff we’re talking here.) And […]