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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday July 03, 2010 17:49 by TD
The weekly Friday protests in Nabi Saleh against the theft of village land for the construction of the illegal Israeli "settler" colony of Halamish have the reputation as the most violent in the West Bank and yesterday's confirmed this hitherto perception: Once the peaceful demonstrators reached the line of army jeeps and soldiers blocking their passage, some were manhandled to the ground and coordinator of the protests; Bassem Tamimi received rough handling, later Jonathan Shapiro an Israeli with live conscience and strong for Palestine was violently arrested. read full story / add a comment
derry / arts and media / opinion/analysis Saturday July 03, 2010 10:17 by John O'Leary in the grave
Thomas Kinsella's Butcher's Dozen was written after the publication of the British Government's Widgery Tribunal Report in 1972. Here he is reading the poem and talking about it. The text of the poem is available here: BUTCHER'S DOZEN: A LESSON FOR THE OCTAVE OF WIDGERY by Thomas Kinsella http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/bsunday/kinsella.htm Also, here is Seamus Deane's poem [click poem to read it or download], taken from his collection, Gradual Wars (IUP, 1972). read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / opinion/analysis Friday July 02, 2010 22:01 by donkylemore
The notion is as absurd as it is reflective on how cravenly this Junior coalition partners will act do to stay in power. The Greens are not the tail that wags the dog; they are the illegitimate pup which it might have been wiser - in political terms - to have put down the moment he was seen to have been overly frisky read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday July 02, 2010 01:35 by Michael Gallagher
Pics 1-5 All images © Michael Gallagher June 2010. More images from the day, including these, can be seen in slideshow format at http://myspace.com/libertypix Thank you for looking, your comments are welcome. read full story / add a comment |
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