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Post by Jim on Apr 15, 2008 15:33:10 GMT
I read a book by him called Loyalists about a year ago and it was very interesting and gave a lot of insight to loyalist paramilitaries and their thinking, would consider him a good author that would contest with his journalism.
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Post by earl on Apr 15, 2008 18:56:23 GMT
must watch this tonight.
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Post by Jim on Apr 15, 2008 19:40:38 GMT
I've read Provos, well, most of it.
What do you mean on video?
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Post by earl on Apr 16, 2008 14:31:35 GMT
Very interesting program last night. Next week is in NI and seems to feature heavily on the Enniskillen bomb.
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Post by Jim on Apr 16, 2008 16:13:40 GMT
I couldn't watch it as I don't have a TV anymore.
Setanta, how did you tape a buckin' book? Is it some nunce sat there reading it to a video recorder or something?
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Post by Bilk on Apr 16, 2008 19:24:36 GMT
Taylor is a self hating brit who never agrees with anything any British government does. A bit along the lines of that idiot who purred like a cat. The Scots git can't remember his name, but he was stuck up Saddam Husein's ass. Oh just remembered George Galloway, stupid scots git. I didn't agree with the war in Iraq either, but I also didn't think Saddam was a saint. Taylor probably does  Don't hear many republicans quoting Ruth Dudley Edwards, a Dublin born literary woman who just loves the IRA and SF. Think she was the person who christened them MOPE (Most opressed people in Europe) |
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Post by Bilk on Apr 16, 2008 19:37:53 GMT
bilk ,have a look at his stuff and then judge him. maybe because RDE is a fool with the writing ability of my two year old. I can quote her mistakes all day long. Can't say that about Taylor. No, that's because you don't see his silly scriblings as mistakes  I see RDE as a literary genius of her time. I did look btw, he believed the chief of staff of the RA, who is thought to have fire the first shot on bloody sunday when he said that crap about his garden. fuckin idiot |
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Post by Bilk on Apr 16, 2008 20:42:14 GMT
RDE said that the Republic of Ireland should thank Britain for leaving us such a robust economy after Partition... shall I go on? And this guy said that the chief of staff of the provies would rather have been doing his lawn on bloody Sunday, shall I go on? |
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Post by Bilk on Apr 16, 2008 20:46:33 GMT
"I first became aware of the word "terrorism" in 1970 when the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) blew up two aircraft at a remote airstrip in Jordan to try and secure the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli and other jails. "
Where the hell was he before 1970, in a neuclear bunker? Che Guvarra, Barder meinhoff were to name but two around in the 60's creating mayhem.
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Post by Bilk on Apr 16, 2008 20:55:04 GMT
"That same year the IRA was beginning to emerge in Northern Ireland, planning to turn the issue of civil rights into a violent insurgency designed to drive the British out of the province. "Bloody Sunday" on 30 January 1972 was my first taste of the Irish conflict. " I'm so glad he at least agrees with me on this |
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Post by Jim on Apr 17, 2008 4:35:10 GMT
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I see RDE as a literary genius of her time.