Here’s a gem you might have missed as a comment on the Contact page: Hi Malachi, as a journalist from a nationalist background it gives me hope that somebody like yourself can be well known. I think to myself, if a dense little twat like Malachi who acts like a monkey to the unionist gallery [...]
Archive for the ‘Culture and Society’ Category
Analyse That!
Posted in Culture and Society on February 27, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Irish Graffiti
Posted in Belfast, Culture and Society, Politics, Northern Ireland on February 22, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Here is some graffiti I spotted in the last couple of days. Actually, the first one has been on a wall on the main Omagh Road out of Strabane for months. The bit I have deleted shows a car registration number, presumably an invitation to attack that car. You’d think the police would have moved [...]
Reading at The Wild Geese
Posted in Culture and Society on February 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I read a couple of pieces from Under His Roof, my book about my father, at The Wild Geese Literary Festival in Strangford on Feb 6. It seemed to go down well. You can hear a recording here:
Don’t Wilt, Iris
Posted in Culture and Society, Religion on January 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A humanistic view of marital infidelity would ask if both partners should take responsibility for one of them wandering. Lucky Peter Robinson; he gets his wife to take all the blame and then forgives her on national television. Here’s a piece I publish in this morning’s Belfast Telegraph: Part of the indignity for Iris Robinson [...]
Talk about Podcasting
Posted in Culture and Society on November 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is a conversation I had with Paddy Hoey, editor of Gobshite’s Miscellany, about blogging and podcasting and the future of new media and old. Mind you, Paddy did most of the talking. We recorded it over an ordinary BT landline with a SSS RTL-650 from Solid State Sound.
Digging
Posted in Culture and Society, Politics, Northern Ireland on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There can be few more grim and ghoulish jobs than sifting a wet and mucky bog for a body. Those who consigned Gerry Evans and others into the dark grime in remote country areas intended that those bodies would never be found. And the most benign interpretation of their failure now to give precise location [...]
The New Book
Posted in Culture and Society on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The publication of the new book inches closer. Watch here for details of readings and the launch
Mixing with the Media
Posted in Culture and Society, Uncategorized on September 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I work as a media trainer and presentation coach with Channel 56. Today I delivered a speech to a seminar organised by Agenda NI on why people should engage with the media and not be afraid of it. Here’s a recording.
Nice Bomb Babaji
Posted in Culture and Society, Uncategorized on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some years ago I was invited to speak at a conference in Armenia. Afterwards we were driven to meet the Catholicus, or Pope, of the Armenian church. He was annoyed about Northern Irish evangelicals poaching souls from him while bringing aid to victims of the Armenian earthquake. Anyway, on the way back to Yerevan, the [...]
The Christian Brothers should be banned and their property impounded.
Posted in Culture and Society, Religion on May 27, 2009 | 45 Comments »
No one took responsibility for the rape and brutalisation of children by religious orders when it was happening but there are more ways to respond now than simply by being appalled and swearing it will never happen again. For a start, the orders which were responsible should be disbanded. This will only have token value, [...]
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This is the blog of my journalism and recordings, with some extracts from my books too. I tend to sound off on Northern Ireland Politics and Culture. Some of the work here will be recent journalism, articles that have appeared in the Belfast Telegraph or elsewhere, but there is a lot of material going back a couple of years now, so please hang around and browse. Malachi
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