27 February 2003 Edition
British collusion Brigadier posted to the Gulf
27 February 2003
British Prime Minister Tony Blair was recently described by one of his own backbench MPs as the true heir to Margaret Thatcher Free article
Examining the language of power
27 February 2003
Ella O'Dwyer's astonishing book, "The Rising of the Moon", is all about the language of power, and its origins are in the 14 years that Ella herself spent as a political prisoner in England. At the launch, Seamus Deane attemted to sum up the scope of the work - "It is a book about the language of slavery, victimhood, silence engineered by coercion, the language of emancipation, the language to get out of the cage, which Ella knows all about, that language which is abducted by people in power, dedicated to the very overthrow of those who seek freedom." Free article
Harney's U-turn On CE Schemes
27 February 2003
Community businesses in north Dublin got a stay of execution on Monday after Mary Harney did a u-turn on her decision to withdraw FáS funding from 12 community business schemes. Free article
Limerick on the Web
27 February 2003
Limerick Sinn Féin has arrived on the web. Their site, www.limericksinnfein.com, compiled by the Clancy/O'Callaghan cumann, has already received hundreds of hits. Free article
Outrage as Basque paper is suppressed
27 February 2003
At this time of debate around sanctions over human rights abuses, it is worth reminding ourselves that human rights standards in some EU countries are far from what governments would like us to believe. Spain is a fine example, with a long record of a dirty war against the Basques, combined with cultural and political repression. Free article
Art Mac Cumhaigh
27 February 2003
After the abuse the soul of the 18th century poet 'Art Mac Cumhaigh' suffered during the Slógadh, An DRAOI RUA attempts to redeem some credibility for the man's charachter so that he may rest in peace again. Free article
A very short-lived coup
27 February 2003
Last week, RTé brought us an invaluable piece of history from Venezuela, True Lives: Surviving the Coup. Free article