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A Little Miracle

Posted in Belfast, Culture and Society, tagged , , , , on September 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »

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If McGuinness stands with the police, then that means: all the way!

Posted in Culture and Society, Politics, Northern Ireland, tagged , , , on April 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

It is hard for Sinn Fein leaders to say plainly that those who can help catch the dissident should take their evidence to the police. They have, however, come as close to stating that baldly as they have ever done. In the past their reactions to the dissidents have amounted to a call that they [...]

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A Reading

Posted in Culture and Society, Donegal, tagged , , on February 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »

This was for the Blackbird Book Club at Queens. The reading is from Under His Roof

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The Bet

Posted in Belfast, Culture and Society, Media, Politics, Northern Ireland, tagged , , , , on February 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Two of my occasional colleagues on media projects and panels will have a little business to settle today. When Eoghan Harris visited the West Belfast festival he took a wager from Jude Collins. Eoghan had said that Sinn Fein would lose all its seats to Fianna Fail in the next Dail General Election, the one [...]

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Death at the Side of the Road

Posted in Culture and Society, Nature on January 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I’m continuing my experiments with audio slideshows using soundslides. I started this off as a way of illustrating recorded text, so the words were the important part. Now I find the image taking over and the verbal input declining, sometimes disappearing altogether to let the picture and the ambient noise tell the story. By the [...]

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My Boat Has Come In

Posted in Culture and Society on September 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Exciting News by email: FROM: FRANK GANI CHAMBERS: SOLICITORS AND ADVOCATES OF THE SUPREME COURT.FINANCIAL ACCREDITED BANK ATTORNEYS/ORGANIZATIONAL REP. Rue 4410 Jaime Platz Avenue, LOME- TOGO. Dear  Malachi O’Doherty, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that [...]

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Did Nelson evolve or was he intelligently designed?

Posted in Culture and Society, Politics, Northern Ireland, Religion on May 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »

It’s not hard to imagine the jaws dropping onto desktops when the letter arrived from Culture Minister Nelson McCausland asking museum heads to pay a bit more attention to matters of vital concern to him like the Ulster Scots heritage, the Orange Order and the origin of the universe. On reflection, museum managers might have [...]

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A Walk Around Belfast

Posted in Belfast, Culture and Society on April 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »

If you are missing Belfast you might like to take a walk around it with me on my new slideshow, History Behind Bars, currently showing at The Street.

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Double Identity

Posted in Belfast, Culture and Society, Politics, Northern Ireland on April 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Tim Brannigan’s new book, Where Are You Really From? recounts the life of a black boy born in Belfast who became a Republican activist. Is having two identities a freedom or a burden? That’s a question I explored with him and others in similar double identity situations.

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Nantes Protest

Posted in Culture and Society, Religion on March 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I saw this protest outside the church of St Nicolas in Nantes last week, March 13. The Catholics on the church steps were conducting a service around an icon, the protesters were objecting to Catholic teaching on abortion and women’s rights, and the police were in the middle. You can hear both the protest chanting [...]

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