Comments on The Pensive Quill: Vengeful, Vindictive, Violent

Rory, it is a powerful book in terms of the emoti...

2011-08-29T12:40:49.320+01:00

Rory,

it is a powerful book in terms of the emotions it raises.

Rory Bobby,s and his comrades death,s made us all ...

2011-08-26T09:52:40.294+01:00

Rory Bobby,s and his comrades death,s made us all cry, the treachery which followed made some of us weep.

Anthony, Marty, I wan't to read Tommy's b...

2011-08-26T08:42:22.956+01:00

Anthony, Marty,

I wan't to read Tommy's book myself. Reading Blanketmen, but to be honest stopped over a week ago after ch.13 when Bobby Sands went on hunger strike. Made me cry.

I will finish it though.

Rory

Marty, Kevin Bean's book can be very tough go...

2011-08-26T08:31:09.551+01:00

Marty,

Kevin Bean's book can be very tough going. But well worth the effort. His framework is the general point that Nuala was expressing when referring to the role of community groups.

Will look it up Anthony still working my way throu...

2011-08-25T22:12:26.450+01:00

Will look it up Anthony still working my way through (slowly)Kevin Bean,s The New Politics Of Sinn Féin, jaysuus its hard going a cara!.f##k you for reviewing it and f##k Nuala for lending me it.

Marty, Tommy Mckearney does a a good critique in...

2011-08-25T21:30:26.231+01:00

Marty,

Tommy Mckearney does a a good critique in his book. he strips them of any radical veneer. Well worh a read

Totally agree Anthony in their haste and greed the...

2011-08-25T21:20:15.755+01:00

Totally agree Anthony in their haste and greed they took the eye of the ball and lost out big time, psf had some powerfull chips to gamble with and squandered the lot,that they are the largest nationialist party is their only remaining gambit,yet they act like toothless tigers,which I suppose they now are.

Marty, the more this goes on the more it shows ju...

2011-08-25T20:36:34.204+01:00

Marty,

the more this goes on the more it shows just how entrenched the DUP is. Sf has lost mightily in all of this. I notice today that Raymond McCartney is hitting out at the repressive legislation that allows children to be arrested. Raymond is right but he does not seem to follow throiugh on his logic and ask how SF failed to get all this sorted out when they decided to sign up to policing. Even in reformist terms the SF performance has been poor. Had they not been so eager for a few micro ministries they could have got a much better deal.

Anthony the sack cloth and ashes have,nt went away...

2011-08-25T20:31:19.497+01:00

Anthony the sack cloth and ashes have,nt went away you know a cara, the dup havent changed their spots nor do they have to,a great pic of a mighty relieved Roisin, was talking to her just a few hours before BL was released, the lass worked her butt of for that result, even a humanatarian decision can be made into a secterian dispute by this bunch of bigots psf should remember when you lie down with dogs you rise with fleas,

And of course the DUP are still kicking up. They a...

2011-08-23T08:21:51.280+01:00

And of course the DUP are still kicking up. They are claiming they got no info from their meeting with Christine Glen, one of the parole commissioners. If they have their way all licences will be withdrawn

Great that Brendan was fianlly released, I agree ...

2011-08-20T14:34:14.063+01:00

Great that Brendan was fianlly released,

I agree with the sentiment that "The energy unleashed in the campaign to free Brendan Lillis should not be allowed to dissipate It should be rechanneled into the areas where it is most needed."

Hopefully this will happen. The most positive thing I can see from this whole sorry saga is that republicans took to the streets all over Ireland in quiet, dignified protests. I was at many in Dublin, Wexford and Wicklow.

It may have helped to improve the perception of republicans in the wider community, in the South anyway.

Roisin is an absolute shining star and I am so glad for her, Brendan and their loved ones.

Rory

while this has centre stage it has to be said that...

2011-08-20T13:10:13.348+01:00

while this has centre stage it has to be said that again this week a and enters a house of a nationalist family in west belfast
in tiger kidnapping
do they do it in the name of ireland and irish freedom
IMPO it is what it is criminality
carried out by criminals for self gain

Good job. Nice to see the grassroots ordinary peop...

2011-08-19T22:23:39.215+01:00

Good job. Nice to see the grassroots ordinary people have their voice heard and score a victory. Doesn't seem to happen too often unfortunately.

finally, common sense emerges.

2011-08-19T22:10:26.410+01:00

finally, common sense emerges.