Showing posts with label Take it Down From the Mast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Take it Down From the Mast. Show all posts
In the wake of last night’s anti internment rally some Belfast Felons Club Officials have taken to complaining about the fact that one of the marching bands stopped outside the premises to give the politics of the people behind the club a bit of Stick. What the club Officials found irascible was the playing of a tune that has great emotive resonance in republican history and folklore, Take it Down from the Mast. It seems to have been as well received as an electric shock.
Former IRA volunteer and ex-prisoner, spent 18 years in Long Kesh, 4 years on the blanket and no-wash/no work protests which led to the hunger strikes of the 80s. Completed PhD at Queens upon release from prison. Left the Republican Movement at the endorsement of the Good Friday Agreement, and went on to become a journalist. Co-founder of The Blanket, an online magazine that critically analyzed the Irish peace process. Lead researcher for the Belfast Project, an oral history of the Troubles.
