Conversant with Chairman Mao? The speech that split the IRA, July 1969.

The Treason Felony Blog

Almost all those involved in the IRA in 1969cite a speech given by Jimmy Steele in Ballyglass cemetery in Julythat yearas apivotal moment en route to the splits that occurred, firstlybetween Belfast and Dublinthat September and, then, across the IRA as a whole. The content of thespeech, delivered at the re-burial of two IRA volunteers executed in England in 1940,was reported in Peter Taylor’s bookProvos in 1998. But the published text doesn’t match the surviving audio of the speech, now held by the Irish Republican Museum in Conway Mill. Thedifferences are significant and give some fresh insight into those at the centre of the IRA split.

Taylor published the following text as a quote from the speech:

“Our two martyred comrades who we honour today … went forth to carry the fight to the enemy, into enemy territory, using the only methods that will ever succeed, not the…

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The taste of God.

monica byrne

Art by Hazel Lee Santino. Honeycomb and Castilleja.

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My short story “Gustus Dei” (Latin for “the taste of God”) is up today on The Baffler. I love this story so much and I’m so happy to finally share it with the world.

Morsels be:

(1) I wrote it for my application to Clarion in 2008. It’s based on a conversation I once had with my sister Clare at the Cleona Dairy Queen about how much we wished there was a “buffet bar” for the Eucharistic wafer.

(2) It has been rejected 51 times, as you can see in my anti-résumé. From the time it was last rejected in 2011 to when it was published in 2015, I did no revisions. It’s exactly the same story.

(3) So hey, fuck the “merit alone” argument. It was finally published because (Kim) Stan(ley) Robinson, who was reading Clarion applications in 2008 and…

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Career Mapping.

great post

The Little Free Library

The Little Free Library movement is a community based book exchange scheme. Working on the principle of ‘leave a book, take a book’, the scheme aims to promote community arts programs, positive mental health, and most importantly, literacy, particularly amongst children. The movement began in Wisconsin, USA in 2009, by Todd Bol, but has spread worldwide since then, with now over 25,000 little libraries spread across over 70 countries.

The first little free library built by Bol was a model of a one room schoolhouse as a tribute to his mother, a former school teacher who loved reading, which he filled with books and put on a post in his front yard. These libraries are handcrafted structures, with designs that range from Bol’s very first schoolhouse model, to those of phone boxes, tree stumps, wine casks, and even the TARDIS from Doctor Who. They vary in size, but are usually big enough to contain 10 to 50 books, the majority of which are donated.

The movement is now in Ireland, started by the Free Wee Library project in Buncrana, Co. Donegal, and there are now Wee Free Libraries in Donegal, Dublin, Carlow and Clare.

For more about The Little Free Library:

• Little Free Library – http://littlefreelibrary.org/
• Wee Free Library – http://www.freeweelibrary.com/

Performing the Archive’ conference, NUI Galway, 22-24 July

The Hardiman Library counts among its holding an unrivalled array of Irish theatre archives spanning from the late 19^th century to present day. With major archives including Druid Theatre, Thomas Kilroy, Arthur Shields, Siobhan McKenna, the Lyric Theatre, Belfast and Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe. The Abbey Theatre digital archive, the largest theatre archive digitization project in the world, comprising more than 1 million items including scripts, costume designs, prompt books and performances is also available to study for generations of scholars to come at the Hardiman Library.

Capitalising on this expertise, ‘Performing the Archive’ is an international conference taking place from 22-24 July 2015 at NUI Galway and will gather together academics, researchers, artists, archivists and librarians engaged in working with archival materials on research and performance projects to explore the uses and possibilities of the archive today from theoretical and methodological perspectives.

Keynote speakers include Patrick Lonergan and Lionel Pilkington of NUI Galway, Catherine Cole of University of California, Berkeley, Doug Reside, New York Public Library, Tracey C. Davis, Northwestern University, Chicago, Hugh Denard, Trinity College Dublin and Emilie Pine, University College Dublin.

The conference will feature over eighty speakers, representing thirteen countries over the three days. Key themes of the conference will include the status of archival research methodologies in published research and graduate training today; how has digitisation changed our access to theatre archives; case studies of theatre artists using archives in new work, the possibilities of collaboration between researchers and practitioners; how has digital humanities begun to reshape the possibilities of archival engagement?; how has the cataloguing of new/recent archives contributed to new learning and change? as well as the craft of the playwright: drafting, editing and writing for stage or radio as represented in the archives.

The conference will also include staged readings of historic and previously unknown scripts from the archives by students from the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance of NUI Galway. Other events will include a series of thematic workshops, book launches of new leading publications as well as excursions to events at the Galway International Arts Festival.

 

The full conference programme and schedule is available at www.conference.ie

Library Information Resources (LIR) Annual Seminar 2015

The LIR HEAnet User Group for Libraries aims to explore and develop awareness of electronic information resources and to promote the use of the HEAnet network in exploiting these resources. Since its inception in 1993, it has provided a forum for discussion on the use of electronic resources and networks by HEI libraries and encouraged communication and co-operation between member libraries in accessing electronic resources. Each year, LIR hosts a seminar organised around a central theme, and in the past has covered topics such as Open Access and Open Source, Cloud Based Collaboration and the Management of Electronic Resources.

This year’s seminar was entitled ‘Uncharted Territory? What Next for Webscale Discovery’, and dealt with the topic of library discovery tools. Keynote speakers on the day included Gareth Owen & Mark Hughes from WHELF (Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum) who discussed their recent assessment and selection process for their resource discovery tools: ‘Transitioning a Vision to Reality: The Wales Higher Education Library Forum (WHELF)’, and Dorinne Raaimakers, Utrecht University Library whose presentation, ‘Thinking the Unthinkable: A Library Without a Catalogue’, discussed Utrecht University’s decision to do away with their discovery tool.

Videos and slides of these presentations, as well as the other presentations on the day, including one from the James Hardiman Library’s Electronic Resources Librarian, Ronan Kennedy (Discovery Tools – Walking the Tightrope between Complexity and Simplicity), can be found on the LIR website, and will give valuable insight into the current trends in resource discovery, as well as how libraries plan to tackle this topic in the future.

Letter to the editor of the New York Times from Ambassador Anne Anderson

Date: 17 June 2015

To: The Editor, New York Times 

In the aftermath of the tragic accident in Berkeley, resulting in the deaths of six young Irish people and the serious injury of seven others, there has been an outpouring of sympathy across the United States.  All the messages we receive strike the same note:  deep sadness at these bright young lives cut short, or profoundly affected by injury, and hearts going out to the grieving families.

At such a time, we found some of the language in your article today (“Six Deaths in Berkeley Cast Pall on Program”) both insensitive and inaccurate.  No one yet knows what caused the collapse of the fourth-floor balcony; the matter is under urgent investigation by structural engineers.  The implication of your article – that the behaviour of the students was in some way a factor in the collapse – has caused deep offence.

It is quite simply wrong to say that the J1 visa programme is “a source of embarrassment for Ireland”.  On the contrary, we are fully supportive of this programme and we know that it brings enormous mutual benefit.  Some of our best and brightest young people participate; they come for a summer in the US on the threshold of their adult lives, and take back experiences and memories that establish life-long bonds.  And they make a real contribution here; one of the messages of condolence we received yesterday put it simply:  “We welcome their energy and joy”.

Yes, there have been isolated incidents of the type to which your article refers.  But they are wholly unrepresentative: bear in mind that 150,000 young Irish people have participated in the J1 program over the past fifty years, and some 7,000 are here for Summer 2015.  From all the feedback we receive, we know that the overwhelming majority of our J1 participants behave in a way that does Ireland proud.

At this time of searing grief, the messages of condolence and offers of support which are flooding in to the Embassy and our Consulates are balm to the soul.  They reflect far more accurately the feelings of the American people than does your article.

Anne Anderson

Ambassador

High court in India instructs indian Govt to provide access to deaf :)

n a landmark judgement in 2011 the High Court of Delhi has created history by instructing the Indian Govt to provide Interpreter access to the deaf community of India. The Nad India had filed a Public interest litigation in this regard in 2007.

A long awaited “post of Sign Langauge Interpreter” has been mooted and the Govt is now to hire interpreters to provide access to deaf people at all points of service access such as courts, hospitals, police stations and so on.

This is great news for the interpreting profession and also for the deaf community of India long oppressed and denied basic rights and access to core services. the court observed that the mainstreaming of the deaf community was very important and the Govt has to bear the cost of providing access.

Interpreting training centers in India languishing for the lack of applicants can now hope for a deluge as the opening up of 15-25000 jobs in interpreting brings a flood of people wanting to learn sign language and become interpreters.

The Higher Diploma in Business Studies (DBS) NUI Galway

The Higher Diploma in Business Studies (DBS) is a one year programme offered by the J. E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics.   Modules are offered from each of the Disciplines: Economics, Marketing, Management, Accountancy & Finance and Management Information Systems.    The programme gives a very good grounding on all aspects of the business environment and is a stepping stone to further study in Marketing, Management and Accountancy & Finance if so desired.

 

The programme is offered to degree holders from all Schools in NUI Galway other than students with a Commerce Degree.

 

If you would like more information on the programme please feel free to telephone, email me or call into Paula’s  which is situated in Room 355, Cairnes Building, North Campus, NUI  Galway.  Here is the link to our programme:

 

http://www.nuigalway.ie/business-public-policy-law/cairnes/courses/taught/businessstudieshdip/

 

 

Kind regards

 

Paula

 

 

Paula Kennedy,

J.E Cairnes School of Business & Economics,

Room 355, Cairnes Building,

National University of Ireland, Galway

 

A Week Without Social Media.

great post for 2day