As with any look back over a year one’s view is always an entanglement of the global the national and the personal.
From my vantage point here on Ireland’s western seaboard much is changed and much remains the same.
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Salsa at the crossroads.
In the law of unintended consequences one of the more beguiling effects of Tiger full employment was to bring people into Ireland who have unwittingly re-introduced something that we, as a people, probably lost a long time ago.
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Celtic – The Supersonic 70s! (Book Review)
This book does exactly what it says on its brightly designed cover.
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Maurice Edu
The tricky thing about racism is that when you allow and approve one type of racist thought you tend to get more than you originally authorised.
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Preventable Death
Phil’s book containing the heart-breaking accounts from berieved families who have lost a young son to this problem in modern Ireland.
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Ibrox “racist” banner criticised.
“The banner is undoubtedly racist. I think many familiar with recent events surrounding anti-Irish racism would opine that the banner is a derivation of the Famine Song’s motivations, only expressed visually as opposed to vocally.”
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December31
The year that was in it.
November17
Salsa at the crossroads.
In the law of unintended consequences one of the more beguiling effects of Tiger full employment was to bring people into Ireland who have unwittingly re-introduced something that we, as a people, probably lost a long time ago.
November10
Respect for the fallen.
Respect for the dead is a basic concept among humans.
It was once thought to be unique to humans-something that sets us apart from animals. Recent discoveries by scientists have found that, for example, African elephants memorialise their dead. They all pass by in line the dead member of the heard and they touch the body of their relative with their trunks.
In this part of the world a minute’s silence is the culturally accepted standard by which someone shows their respect for the dead.
November4
An act of remembrance?
This weekend across the island of Ireland there will be commemorations of those Irishmen who died in the service of the British Crown in many conflicts.
Most of those remembered died in the “Great war”, but Irishmen continue to serve in the British armed forces and they continue to die for Britain.
In the Republic people have developed a sophisticated analysis and are able to differentiate between the individual heroism of our own and the cause for which they were led to their death.
This book does exactly what it says on its brightly designed cover.
The 1970s was the decade wherein I was a teenage Celtic supporter in Glasgow.
The book brought back memories of the great Celtic players I watched and the terrible clothes that I was proud to wear!
