Friday, September 6, 2002

Seamus Costello - Revolutionary Socialist From The Starry Plough Seamus Costello exhibited a greatness of the same order as James Connolly. His energy, his intelligence, accuracy and thoroughness, his humour, quickness, and decisiveness, made him an outstanding mind and personality in this generation of Irishmen. He was both a thinker and a man of action But he was also a man of deep concern and humanity based on that affectionate nature that he shared with his wife Maeliosa and children Caoilfionn, Fionan, Aoibbin, Ronan. He saw clear and far, and dared greatly. He dared to take up the unfinished task of James Connolly. Comments: Google It! 7:08:27 AM

Understanding Culture Billy Mitchell From The Blanket Sean Smyth's article Rose Tinted Culture brought to mind the following lines of Rabbie Burns - "O wad some power the giftie gie us, tae see ourselves as ithers see us". All too often we see ourselves and our experience of culture through rose tinted glasses and it does no harm for us to look at how others view us and our cultural experiences. As we grow older we tend to look back on what we feel were the halcyon days of wine and roses, forgetting that at times the wine was bitter and the roses had thorns. Comments: Google It! 7:02:11 AM

Harassment of Felons set to continue Laura Friel From AP/RN Last month, 13 members and staff of the Felon's Club in Andersonstown, West Belfast, thought they had, at last, a reason to celebrate after Judge Paul McRandall of Belfast's Magistrates Court ordered that cases against them should be dropped. Comments: Google It! 6:58:24 AM

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