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international / arts and media Monday June 12, 2006 - 22:10 by Liam Mullen
When the American Civil War (1861-65) broke out, James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald was galvanised and plunged 40 reporters into the fray with instructions to bring back the news first. Some editors went along themselves – notably Henry Raymond of The New York Times. The London Times had already despatched William Russell – an Irish war correspondent – who had already sent in reports from a previous conflict. Reports from the Crimean War included his byline.1 ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Monday June 12, 2006 - 20:31 by Liam Mullen
“If your pictures aren’t good enough…you’re not close enough.”1a Death of a Loyalist Soldier, was an image captured by Robert Capa in 1936, and reveals the exact moment a Republican militiaman is killed by a bullet during the Spanish civil War. The picture shows just how close Capa got to his subjects. Capa went on to co-find the Magnum Photograph Agency.1 ... read full story / add a comment
Audio Of A Very Recent Public Interview With Ken Loach and Paul Laverty On Their Cannes Winning Film
international / arts and media Monday June 12, 2006 - 17:22 by eeeepppp
It's Here: http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/10163.php Took place on thursday 8th of June at very short notice in Queens Film Theatre in Belfast. They discuss the UK press reaction at length as well as aspects of the making of the film. About 25 minutes long. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Monday June 12, 2006 - 16:00 by SK
Kevin Myers and 1916. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday June 10, 2006 - 19:56 by coconut
The government earlier this year announced the purchase of enough vaccine to "protect" 200,000 people against the H5N1 strain of avian influenza. An Tánaiste seems to think this is a good idea. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Saturday June 10, 2006 - 15:50 by Chris Murray
Make Do and Mend. Websters (unabridged ) International Dictionary gives the physics of astigmatism as " A defect of an optical system(as a Lens or mirror) in consequence of which rays from a single point of an object fail to meet in a single focal point thus causing the image of a point to be drawn out into a line and the images of lines having a certain direction to be less distinct than those of lines transverse to that direction." ... read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues Friday June 09, 2006 - 11:22 by Sean Crudden
Mental illness and the treatment of mental illness have become conflated in the minds of lay people and professional alike. It is an astute practitioner who can distinguish the effects of treatment from the effects of illness when they look at a mental patient. In my humble opinion standard treatment contributes more to stigma and isolation of the mental patient than any underlying illness he or she may suffer from. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Thursday June 08, 2006 - 19:28 by Paul MacGiolla Bán
The mass media representation of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as an Al-Qaeda leader is inaccurate. Al-Qaeda as an 'organisation' has no formal structure, and would be more accurately described as philosophy. Media representations of the group are seriously flawed and buy into the assumptions underlying the US-led 'war on terror'. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Thursday June 08, 2006 - 18:12 by John O' Neill
The US and its puppet government have lost control of Iraq. They may well gloat at the death of Al-Zarqawi but their defeat in Iraq is an inevitability. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Wednesday June 07, 2006 - 22:10 by B Ó Ruairc
Who are Sinn Fein? Why those you may be thinking of clearly aren't. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday June 07, 2006 - 20:45 by intellectual scud missile
There's never been any investigation of a US plane on Irish soil, because Dermot Ahern says "we accept the categoric assurances of a sovereign nation, of a sovereign friendly nation." ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 07, 2006 - 19:38 by Geoffrey Cooling.
"Your tenure has also seen the collapse of the community and the breaking of extended family links wrought by the runaway property boom. But sure we are all making a few quid out of it, so we don’t see our family as much as we like and we are all disconnected from our communities to the extent that some of us don’t know who lives next door to us" ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Wednesday June 07, 2006 - 15:00 by Kathy Sinnott
Once again we have scored top of the class in drinking: amount consumed and money spent on alcohol per person, most binge drinking with special honours for the exceptional, young average age of our binge drinkers. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 07, 2006 - 14:56 by Davy Carlin
2001 - 2004 - 'Momentous years - linked - via my Diary - http://davycarlin.allotherplaces.org/?m=200605 {Incorporates - Anti Sectarian rallies, Falls and Shankill march, - Anti Capitalism - Anti War, NIPSA branch 8, Anti Racism {etc} with the at times termed 'historic'- {etc}- mass Movements , mobilisations, and campaigns - this while in the once termed and then respected– 'Belfast SWP} 2005 -2006 Momentous years in the Continuum - {below links} {Incorporates and to be continued - Anti Poverty, Anti deportation, International mobilisations, homelessness, trade union rights, hunger Strike, etc - and again at times termed 'historic - {etc} -mass Movements, mobilisations and campaigns ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 07, 2006 - 12:28 by Bernadette
They say that She would never be forgotten, that young fifteen year old girl who died at the foot of a Marian Grotto in Granard, twenty six years ago. Ann Lovett was found dead beside the body of her new-born child twenty six years ago. She was fifteen. I keep thinking that if the Statue she had chosen to meet her death beside had been painted, or friendly, or had a rounded stomach, a vestige of humanity then maybe that little girl would not have died. She went to the lonliest place she could find, not for aid, but because she knew that no-one went there and she knew she would be safe from prying eyes and intrusion. The case haunted me at the time because we were of an age. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday June 06, 2006 - 01:08 by Seamus Kilby
The Sindonistas have swapped one form of tribalism for another. ... read full story / add a comment |
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