Sinead O’Connor – How About I Be Me (And You Be You)
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012There’s a quote, from an article that Germaine Greer wrote back in the 70s,which springs back in to my mind continuously when listening to certain albums: “When Joshua fit the Battle of Jericho the walls came tumbling down. That’s revelation. The holy Ghost talking. So it can be done. The way to crack a mirror or shiver [...]
The House of the Mosque – Kader Abdolah
Friday, February 19th, 2010I finished Kader Abdolah’s The House of the Mosque on the same day that organised celebrations (and crackdowns on civil unrest) took place in Tehran to mark the anniversary of the 1979 revolution which swept Mohammad-Rez? Sh?h Pahlavi from power and led to the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Looking at the pictures [...]
Irish politicians worse than Polish?
Thursday, December 17th, 2009The Gogarty wave has hit Poland. Naturally it has been shorn of almost all context, leaving Poland with an image of Irish politicians as pugnacious, uncivilised and immature. But it’s much worse than that. Gogarty apologised for saying to his honourable friend “fuck you” one second after saying the words. Later that day he said [...]
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009Chanced upon an interesting review of Anne Enright’s ‘The Gathering’ http://bit.ly/ZyJvW # Hearing good things about David Vann’s ‘Legend of a suicide’ http://bit.ly/215OEP # So it turns out that @wuming6 is not, in fact, Wu Ming – see: http://bit.ly/D7AED Cheeky! RT @VersoBooksUK # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Violent Scenes at Fitzgibbon Street
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009Dublin, Ireland There were violent scenes at Fitzgibbon Street this morning as members of the public forcibly ejected the gardai who had been staging a sit-in occupation in direct contravention of a High Court injunction directing them to vacate the station by 7 am. When the 45 police officers failed to comply a citizen squad [...]
Garda Siochana ignore order to end sit-in
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Dublin, Ireland Former gardai staging a sit-in occupation at the force’s Fitzgibbon Street station may risk prison after deciding to defy a High Court order to vacate the building. Mr Justice Michael Peart heard the 45 former police officers had been told by their union that they needed to obey the court order to vacate [...]
Baton charges and kettling: the public’s police-crowd control tactics under fire
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009• Methods infringed civil liberties, say police • Only hardcore agitators were targeted, people insist Citizen tactics of containing thousands of police for several hours at the protests in front of Scotland Yard and using batons against police protesters were condemned yesterday as an infringement of the right of police to demonstrate. In the aftermath [...]
