Monthly Archives: December 2014

Ode to an Ulster Politician by Robert Burns

Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie, O, what a panic’s in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty Wi bickering brattle! I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee, Wi’ murdering pattle. I’m truly sorry man’s dominion Has … Continue reading

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Christmas Poem from the Walrus and the Carpenter to the Oyster Loyalists

“The sun was shining on the sea,       Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make       The billows smooth and bright — And this was odd, because it was       The middle of the night. The moon was … Continue reading

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Who were The Cruthin? – Eddie McIwaine

Who were The Cruthin? That’s a question I was asked once upon a time by Van Morrison and I hadn’t a clue, but I was able to point Van (and myself) to an absorbing book by academic Dr Ian Adamson … Continue reading

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Convovulation and the Question of Malachi

How can quantum gravity help explain the origin of the universe?.. This is the question on a gable wall on the Ormeau Embankment in Belfast that the Political Commentator Malachi O Doherty asks himself every day.. The answer is Convovulation, my … Continue reading

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