In Belfast last night:
Yes, it's as bad as it looks.
When we were there a year ago, the occasional "RIRA" graffiti in Ulster cities and reports of UVF thuggery could be dismissed hopefully as the work of low-level hooligans using centuries of conflict as an excuse for what they would do anyway. After all, street crime is endemic to modern urban societies, isn't it?
Hope remains that this does not escalate, but the anxiety is ramping up.
UPDATE: Good background piece on the current state of affairs in Short Strand. The comments are illuminating, too.
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- Brian Fies Writes Inventive and Enchanting Books -- and All of the Entries in His Blog
- Coyote Crossing: Writing and Photography from the Mojave Desert and Elsewhere by Chris Clarke
- G. Dan Mitchell is a music prof at my school, and was one of my successors as president of its faculty senate. Despite those impediments, he has managed to become the finest Northern California landscape photographer (both rural and urban) since Ansel Adams. Note that I don't use any "IMHO" or similar weaseling in that assessment; the man is THAT good.
- Give me liberty or give me Todd. On second thought, give me both, since it's a double-d and not in German anyway.
- Mary Ellen Carew's "Xtreme English: Love Notes to the English Language" is probably the best thing coming out of DC these days. Faint praise, I know, but check it out anyway.
- Mike Peterson's Ruminations from New England. A lifelong journalist, Mike's observations are insightful, often provocative, and always entertaining.
- Mojo-the-Cat: "bouncing thru life for 10 consekutev yeers"
- Painting On: Newfoundland artist Margaret Ryall's words are crafted as skillfully as her brushstrokes. That she is also a veteran of Birr Castle's Bothy is a plus, but not a sine qua non, for inclusion in this blogroll.
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- Ruth Channels Lucy van Pelt from South Carolina.
- The best comic strip or panel of the day, as selected by Mike Peterson, more expert than whom no one is.
- Vicki teaches physics in sign language and calls herself oddprofessor
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I can remember when I felt very proud of my Irish heritage. No more. I'm fed up with the violence. They seem like a bunch of fookin' savages1
I'm inclined to spread the blame around, M.E., beyond the island's perimeter.
... not to the exclusion of many people inside the perimeter, though, certainly.
The BBC website appears to be covering events pretty quickly: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-13869210
So, how's the economy doing over there these days? Still got lots of jobs for young people? Celtic Tiger still keeping everyone busy and well-motivated?
Yeah. It wasn't a serious question.
Have been watching this unfold on the news with distress.
Those same conflicts and hatreds came across the pond to Newfoundland, sadly, albeit not in overtly violent ways (Usually. There were gang fights). We were brought up to believe that Catholics were at least to be suspect, and fraternization with them to be avoided if possible. (My cousin once confessed to me that the adults around her demonized Catholics so much that she got the notion that "a Catholic" was some kind of a monster which might leap out from behind a fence to ambush you. She was terrified of them as a child until she realized they were just *other people*.) Dismantling the religious school system, which segregated us, in the early 90s has helped a lot.
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