Due uomini in tribunale per omicidio durante faida lealista

Due uomini sono comparsi oggi in tribunale per rispondere dell’omicidio di Tommy English.
English, 39 anni, era membro dell’Ulster Defence Association. Fu ucciso, davanti alla moglie, nella sua abitazione di Newtownabbey nell’ottobre 2000.
La faida lealista scoppiata tra UDA e UVF all’inizio dell’estate del 2000 portò all’esecuzione di sette paramilitari, quattro dei quali uccisi tra il 28 [...]

Crip’s oration

Delivered by Willie Gallagher on behalf of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement on 30-06-08

Comrades, we stand here today in memory of and in solemn salute to the life of an Irish revolutionary, Irish National Liberation Army Volunteer Christopher McWilliams.
The Republican Socialist Movement stand in grief beside his family, acutely aware that they have lost a [...]

Kaya Brown: The Act of Seeing

Redazione di Let

Kaya Brown, Wat?! giovanissima Art Director nordirlandese, ci racconta la sua esperienza e i segreti dai set di Body Snatchers; nuovo progetto in corso della meteora artistica di Belfast dopo il successo di ‘Belfaskating’
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with the WAT?! Art Director, Kaya Brow
Miss Brown, what’s Body Snatchers? And how is it realized?
Well, [...]

No Myths for These Countries of the Mind

by Martina Buckley
A reflection about contemporary post-human society according to William Gibson
Any time I watch No Maps for These Territories it’s a mesmerising experience. The documentary is a pre-9/11 long interview with William Gibson. He sits in the back of a limo, smoking cigarettes and slowly speaking in his reassuring Canadian drawl about what is [...]

Mindsucker. The Retrosic

Cyrus Fletcher Zoe Andor Ian

snow in china, mindsucker
When the history of The Retrosic started in April 2001 with the release of Prophecy, no one could foresee that already the first album would enjoy considerable resonance in the electro scene.
Followed by Messa Da Requiem hardly a year later, the mini album, featuring new songs [...]

A sense of place

A life in poetry
Derek Mahon’s work is often linked with that of his Northern Irish peers, Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley. But he argues that Belfast’s literary tradition has deeper roots
Nicholas Wroe - Saturday July 22, 2006 - The Guardian
In September 1963 Derek Mahon, Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley visited the County Down grave of [...]

Nationalism, ethnicity and democracy: contemporary manifestations

Peri Pamir
Introduction
The subject of nationalism is extremely complex, not the least because of the many different sources and manifestations of the phenomenon. This paper will deal essentially with certain contemporary forms of nationalism which have emerged or intensified in Europe and the former Soviet Union during the 1990s. In order to place this discussion in [...]

Ethno-nationalism was Basis of Building Soviet States

One of the factors thought to have led to the break-up of the Soviet Union was the reemergence of ethno-nationalism. However, ethnic identity was purposely cultivated during the Communist Revolution of 1917 to overthrow the Russian aristocracy, said visiting scholar Yuri Urbanovich at a conference on “Russia in Turmoil” March 6 through 8, sponsored by [...]

‘Ethno-nationalism’: new interethnic tensions in Latin America

by Luis Esteban González Manrique, del Real Instituto Elcano, Jul-19-05
Theme: In his latest report on global trends, the United States National Intelligence Council mentions ‘militant indigenism’ associated with anti-Americanism as one of the potential hazards for hemispheric security.
Summary: In many Latin American countries the proliferation of new ‘armed actors’ is linked with the gradual [...]

The wishing tree

Kathleen Jamie
I stand neither in the wilderness
not fairyland,
but in the fold
of a green hill,
the tilt from one parish
into another.
To look at me
through a smirr of rain
is to taste the iron
in your own blood;
because I bear
the common currency
of longing each wish.
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