Aug 10, 2011 | Latest
Interviewed along with Professor Keith Jeffrey on local BBC radio’s Good Morning Ulster on the subject of the 40th anniversary of the introduction of internment and the repercussions of that disastrous exercise in repression by the Ulster Unionist government,...
Jul 23, 2011 | Latest
Finished Stephen Walker’s excellent and moving account of the battle between Irish Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty in the Vatican during WWII and Gestapo Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Kappler who planned to assassinate O’Flaherty. O’Flaherty set up an escape line and saved the...
Jun 16, 2011 | Features
Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre surely had their tongues protruding from their cheeks like gumboils when they claimed that they believed they could be killed if the interviews they carried out as part of the Boston College project were handed over to the British...
Jun 10, 2011 | Latest
Finished ‘Pornografia’ by Witold Gombrowicz (pictured, front page) and it will be a long time before I read one of his novels again. He, himself, is a character in the book and there is nothing impressive or provocative or memorable about the boring story of two...
May 17, 2011 | Latest
Was supposed to do an interview with RTE’s Pat Kenny this morning on the subject of Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Ireland but it had to be cancelled as it clashed with an event at Queen’s [!] University at which I am speaking. Having not recently been down South I can...
