Showing posts with label Guest Writer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guest Writer. Show all posts
Guest writer Daithi O’Donnabhain on what the Proclamation should mean to the current generation of republicans.
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| Daithi O’Donnabhain |
Gerard Murphy adds his perspective to the discussion on the IRA and the Disappeared of the 1920s. Gerard Murphy is the author of The Year of Disappearances: Political Killings in Cork, 1920-1921.
Guest writer Fionnghuala Nic Roibeaird with her take on what she sees as a rape culture within the Provisional IRA. The author is an anarcha-feminist from Belfast.
Growing up in West Belfast, as Maíria Cahill did, you are immediately introduced and submerged into a culture of republicanism and of the armed struggle. Murals, flags and gardens of remembrance make it impossible to escape. What is lurking in the shadows of these symbols and the shadows of local heroes is the clandestine sexual abuse that went on during those turbulent years – clandestine to the public but an open secret within the republican family.
Growing up in West Belfast, as Maíria Cahill did, you are immediately introduced and submerged into a culture of republicanism and of the armed struggle. Murals, flags and gardens of remembrance make it impossible to escape. What is lurking in the shadows of these symbols and the shadows of local heroes is the clandestine sexual abuse that went on during those turbulent years – clandestine to the public but an open secret within the republican family.
Guest writer Cormac Ryan with an account of his struggle against depression.
Earlier in the week, I was listening to a song that contained the lyrics "Please help me, I'm alone and I'm drowning". It pretty much floored me and, apart from listening to that song repeatedly, I've done little else for the rest of the week. Drowning, I can relate to.
Earlier in the week, I was listening to a song that contained the lyrics "Please help me, I'm alone and I'm drowning". It pretty much floored me and, apart from listening to that song repeatedly, I've done little else for the rest of the week. Drowning, I can relate to.
Guest writer Steven Katsineris with an appeal on behalf of a Palestinian child killed in a hit and run incident by an Israeli land thief.
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| Inas Shawkat |
Guest piece by Ciaran Mulholland.
This weekend in Bray the Irish Republican Socialist Movement will commemorate the courageous visionary, and their founding leader, Seamus Costello. This was a man who led by example, and his activism from the cradle to the grave is testament to his determination and enthusiasm in furthering the concept of a genuine 32 County Socialist Republic, where all the children of the Nation are cherished equally.
"I Owe My Allegiance only to the Working Class"
Guest writer, the Parisian domiciled Frankie McKillen with his views on the drugs issue.
Fuck it, I quit.
Charlo Greene famously said those words live on KTVA after she reported on a segment about pot to concentrate on legalizing marijuana in Alaska. What she said before dramatically quitting her job was ...
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| TPQ's Belfast Rockabilly Frankie McKIllen |
Fuck it, I quit.
Charlo Greene famously said those words live on KTVA after she reported on a segment about pot to concentrate on legalizing marijuana in Alaska. What she said before dramatically quitting her job was ...
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