Maybe it’s started. You know those short periods of time that pass but somehow you don’t notice them and can’t remember them afterwards. You’re driving from Belfast to Omagh and suddenly you realize you’re at the Ballygawley Roundabout and for the life of you you can’t remember the last five miles. Maybe that’s what happened […]
Author Jude Collins
You mean there’s an election in two days’ time? Geddoutahere!
Maybe it’s started. You know those short periods of time that pass but somehow you don’t notice them and can’t remember them afterwards. You’re driving from Belfast to Omagh and suddenly you realize you’re at the Ballygawley Roundabout and for the life of you you can’t remember the last five miles. Maybe that’s what happened […]
Some thoughts on the killing of Osama bin Laden
A man who taught in China told me yesterday that he used to call on his former students from time to time. First, though, he had to let them know he was coming. If he didn’t, they risked being unprepared and losing face, and that was a very serious matter for them. It sounds odd […]
Some thoughts on the killing of Osama bin Laden
A man who taught in China told me yesterday that he used to call on his former students from time to time. First, though, he had to let them know he was coming. If he didn’t, they risked being unprepared and losing face, and that was a very serious matter for them. It sounds odd […]
Two young men, two different lives
It’s funny – that’s funny-peculiar, not funny-ha-ha – the deal life serves up to different people. Today in Westminster Abbey, a young man aged 29 who’s known nothing but privilege all his life will be married to a young woman who, while certainly not from the level of comfort of her husband, is very comfortably […]
Two young men, two different lives
It’s funny – that’s funny-peculiar, not funny-ha-ha – the deal life serves up to different people. Today in Westminster Abbey, a young man aged 29 who’s known nothing but privilege all his life will be married to a young woman who, while certainly not from the level of comfort of her husband, is very […]
Orangeism? Great idea. Pity about the history and ordinances
I was on the Stephen Nolan show on BBC Radio Ulster yesterday, discussing plans a man called Jim has for an Orange Centre in East Belfast. Jim sounded perfectly sane but his project sounds like a March hare on acid. He figures such a centre is needed because ‘unionism and Orangeism have been marginalised’. Eh? […]
Orangeism? Great idea. Pity about the history and ordinances
I was on the Stephen Nolan show on BBC Radio Ulster yesterday, discussing plans a man called Jim has for an Orange Centre in East Belfast. Jim sounded perfectly sane but his project sounds like a March hare on acid. He figures such a centre is needed because ‘unionism and Orangeism have been marginalised’. Eh? […]
Easter Week 1916: myth and grim reality
Thomas MacDonagh in a letter to his wife Muriel, written a few hours before his execution: “I counted the cost of this, and I am ready to pay it”. Eamonn Ceannt in a letter to his wife Áine, written an hour before his execution: “I am here without hope of this world, and […]
Easter Week 1916: myth and grim reality
Thomas MacDonagh in a letter to his wife Muriel, written a few hours before his execution: “I counted the cost of this, and I am ready to pay it”. Eamonn Ceannt in a letter to his wife Áine, written an hour before his execution: “I am here without hope of this world, and without fear, calmly […]