Posts Tagged ireland

Don’t Mention the Border

Don’t Mention the Border

There is an amusing cartoon doing the rounds, where the characters speculate on the possibility of the  Republic of Ireland   rejoining the Commonwealth in the aftermath of last week’s State Visit by an t-Uachtarán, Michael D.  I suspect that there are Georgian drawing rooms in Dublin where

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The Politician and the Photographer

The Politician and the Photographer

I watched two TV programmes back-to-back last night, the first on RTE was ‘Thatcher – Ireland and the Iron Lady’, followed by a BBC documentary in the ‘Imagine’ series on photographer, Don McCullin. While the subjects were quite contrasting personalities, the programmes shared common themes – attitudes

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