Gilles Peress meets Harry Kreisler of Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley Background Gilles, welcome to Berkeley. Thank you. Tell us a little about your background. Where were you educated, and in what subject? I grew up in France, in Paris, and I studied political science and philosophy. Not photography. Who were some of the [...]
Born December 29, 1946, France. Institut d’Etudes Politiques, 1966-1968, and Universite de Vincennes, 1968-1971. Joined Magnum Photos as an associate in 1972, became a member in 1974. Vice President 1984-85; President 1986-87, 1989-90. Represented by Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York. Gilles Peress is the recipient of many awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, La [...]
Michael Longley Impasto or washes as a rule: Tuberous clottings, a muddy Accumulation, internal rhyme – Fuchsias droop towards the ground, The potato and its flower. Or a continuing drizzle, Specialization of light, Bog-water stretched over sand In small waves, elisions – The dialect of silence. Or, sometimes, in combination Outlining the bent spines, The [...]
Michael Longley Though there are distances between us I lean across and with my finger Pick sleep from the corners of her eyes, Two grain of sand. Could any soldier Conscripted to such desert warfare Discern more accurately than I do The numerous hazards-a high sun, Repetitive dunes, compasses jamming, Delirium, death-or dare with me [...]
Voltairine de Cleyre From the standpoint of one who thinks himself capable of discerning an undeviating route for human progress to pursue, if it is to be progress at all, who, having such a route on his mind’s map, has endeavored to point it out to others; to make them see it as he sees [...]
From “Books and Writings”, ABC Radio National by Ramona Koval, Sunday 24/07/2005 Summary: After many lifetimes of conflict and intransigence in Northern Ireland, the fragility of the peace process has fostered a language of precariousness. According to Irish critic Edna Longley, the poetry of this period has done more than just passively observe the effects [...]
Amnesty International News “There is evidence that the treatment of the Action Directe prisoners has fallen short of international standards,” Amnesty International said today. “The French government simply must take steps to rectify this immediately.” Joëlle Aubron, Nathalie Ménigon, Jean-Marc Rouillan and Georges Cipriani were arrested in February 1987 and sentenced in 1994 to multiple [...]
The other great important libertarian group which came to prominence during the May-June events in France in 1968 were the Situationists. They originated in a small band of avante-garde artists and intellectuals influenced by Dada, Surrealism and Lettrism. The post-war Lettrist International, which sought to fuse poetry and music and transform the urban landscape, was [...]
Despite the disruptive effects of World War I on Great Britain, it would have been unrealistic, even in the land of the leprechaun, for the Irish to expect to defeat by conventional military tactics the world’s foremost military power. In fact, most of the leaders of the Irish nationalists felt that the opportunity for success [...]
Dolours Price Again I am way behind time, but time is not way behind me, nothing much has changed as regards the aftercare of prisoners who have served long, or not so long, sentences. What happens to prisoners who have often spent fifteen, twenty years in gaol? Often on the Blanket, in their own body [...]
The Guardian, Wednesday October 5, 2005 Nature, war – or washing up? As Britain’s top poetry prize is awarded today, John Mullan examines what preoccupies our leading writers David Harsent has won this year’s Forward prize – but will anyone but academics pay attention? Who ever made money from poetry? For much of his career, [...]
Ruth Dudley Edwards, Guardian Ken Loach is being predictable and morally lazy in making yet another sympathetic portrayal of Irish republicanism. As an Irish historian living in England, I have become inured to the self-flagellation of nice, well-meaning, leftish people like George Monbiot when it comes to Ireland. They see only negatives when they consider [...]
George Monbiot, The Guardian, Tuesday June 6, 2006 Loach’s film about the Irish independence war is being rubbished because it tells the other side of the occupation story That they have not seen his film is no impediment. That it has won the Palme d’Or at Cannes only quickens their desire for reprisals. Ken Loach [...]
by Horst Mahler, Keinmachnow, 23 March 2001 German Lecture Series: Final Solution of the Jewish Question This paper was supposed to be given before the Conference of Revisionist Historians on 3 April 2001. The meeting was prohibited by the Lebanese government on 23 March 2001. Woe! Mordechai has become arrogant and blinded by his victory. [...]
PH Pearse Ireland unarmed will attain just as much freedom as it is convenient for England to give her; Ireland armed will attain ultimately just as much freedom as she wants.
Martin Ingram, Force Research Unit, May 2006 The accusation that an individual is an Informer is a serious one, and it goes without saying that the majority of accusations, over the last two years are sometimes way of the mark. Many of these allegations are made with an agenda in mind .The allegations do have [...]
Irish Proclamation of Independence – General Post Office, Dublin – April 24, 1916 POBLACHT NA H EIREANN THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons [...]
Mike Rogers, October 1st, Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin, Ireland 35 minutes MR: So you’ve never been to Ireland before? WG: No. no… and it’s a, you know, in a sense I’ve been reading about it all my life… because it’s a, you know… Joyce? the Modernists? Yeah. Such a literate, yeah, such a literary land. So [...]
From Belfast, Andrea Varacalli Due to Sinn Féin’s election victory what steps are now required to revive the peace process? There is now a huge onus on the British and Irish governments, but in particular on the British government, to drive forward with the full and faithful implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. There is [...]
Dolours Price So, Gerry, it has come to this. Not a lot when all is considered, nothing that didn’t already exist in some form since the creation of the State. Constitutional Nationalism has been a part of Six County politics since forever. Joe Devlin, Eddie McAteer and then the S.D.L.P, now Sinn Fein. Not a [...]
Irish American News, by Chris Fogarty, February 2006 (Author’s note: As this column reports news that the rest of the news media cover up, corrections of fact remain warmly welcome and will be included in the following month’s column. So far, none – after ten years.) For the Republic DESMOND WALSH, R.I.P., was very well-known [...]
A cura di Andrea Varacalli October 1981, Belfast Gerard McCrory was born in the Short Strand, East Belfast, on 25th February 1954. One of seven children, he attended St. Matthew’s Primary School and St. Mary’s Grammar School. In the first year of internament, he was the youngest internee at 17 years of age. He was [...]
Irish National Caucus, President,Father Sean Mc Manus, 4 february 2006 A letter to Mitchel Reiss Dr. Mitchel Reiss Special Envoy for Northern Ireland Saturday, February 4, 2006 Dear Mitchel, Because of your strong, unreserved support of the PSNI, I thought you would be interested in the enclosed article from Daily Ireland, “PSNI won’t become representative [...]
Dolours Price My own experiences with Gerry Kelly as a comrade on a difficult mission in England and our subsequent imprisonment together leaves me somewhat emotionally vulnerable to the person. We went through a lot together. It causes me a great deal of pain to ridicule the boy I once knew to be stubborn, anti-establishment, [...]
William Butler Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate [...]
Patrick Kavanagh They laughed at one I loved- The triangular hill that hung Under the Big Forth. They said That I was bounded by the whitethorn hedges Of the little farm and did not know the world. But I knew that love’s doorway to life Is the same doorway everywhere. Ashamed of what I loved [...]
by Tony Negri [Toni Negri was one of the historic leadership of the Italian revolutionary group Potere Operaio (Workers' Power) and is currently serving a prison sentence in Rebibbia prison, Rome. Negri gave himself up on July 1, 1997, after 14 years' exile in Paris in a bid to close a chapter in his own [...]
21st January 2006, McKevitt & Sands Family statement It was recently reported by various media, that Michael McKevitt was “convicted of directing terrorism at the time of Omagh.” This is factually inaccurate. Unfortunately, this is not the first time the media have carried false and misleading reports about Michael. Therefore we feel it is necessary [...]
Il comunicato, letto da Seanna Walsh, con il quale i Provisional Ira dichiara la cessazione della campagna armata iniziata nel 1970. Da tempo, prima della lettura di questo comunicato, i Provisional avevano iniziato la distruzione del proprio arsenale sotto la supervisione dell’IICD. La campagna armata, inoltre, era terminata a tutti gli effetti dalla dichiarazione del [...]
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La famiglia di Tommy English cita in giudizio la PSNI
La famiglia del comandante paramilitare lealista Tommy English ha fatto causa alla PSNI per i mancati provvedimenti presi contro l’agente di polizia legato a 10 omicidi Le denunce provengono dalla vedova e dei figli di English e sono basate sul rapporto che ha evidenziato la collusione tra alcuni ufficiali di polizia ed i paramilitari lealisti. [...]
Marian Price verrà visitata da un medico delle Nazioni Unite
Un medico è stato incaricato dalle Nazioni Unite di valutare attentamente le condizioni di Marian Price, mentre montano le preoccupazioni per la sua salute Il medico ONU la visiterà presso la prigione di Hidebank Wood a South Belfast, nelle vesti di relatore speciale delle Nazioni Unite. La repubblicana di West Belfast è stata tenuta in [...]
Balmoral Review: una folla unionista invade Belfast
Solo la tolleranza delle reciproche tradizioni garantirà un pacifico decennio di celebrazione dei centenari, ha detto uno dei più importanti orangisti di Belfast durante il primo grande raduno storico unionista che si è svolto in maniera abbastanza tranquilla lo scorso fine settimana. Mervyn Gibson, pastore presbiteriano e Gran Cappellano di Belfast, stava parlando sabato in [...]
Derry: un arresto per pipe bomba sotto la vettura dei genitori di un poliziotto
Un uomo è stato fermato per la pipe bomb lasciata sotto l’automobile dei genitori di un agente della PSNI L’incidente avvenne in Drumleck Drive, nella zona di Shantallow, il 15 aprile scorso. Alcune abitazioni furono evacuate per permettere agli artificieri dell’esercito britannico di operare sull’ordigno. L’agente di polizia non viveva nella casa. La polizia aveva [...]
Le “prove” segrete e il caso di Marian Price
di Daniel Holder La scorsa settimana c’erano due significativi promemoria sullo strisciante utilizzo di “prove” segrete. Il primo è la continuazione della detenzione di Marian McGlinchey (cognome da nubile, Price), sebbene i suoi tre co-accusati sono stati liberati quando un giudice ha rigettato le accuse contro tutti e quattro. Marian Price tecnicamente parlando era già [...]
