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Following reposting my review of GUD#5 here is my review of GUD#6. Following this I had interesting correspondence with Lou Antonelli and Jim Pascual Agustin Following my review of GUD Issue 5, it…
Following on my reposting of my review of Aldebo 1 Issue 39, here is the first of my two reviews of issues of Greatest Uncommon Denominator magazine. The early paragraphs include…
Original here. Some interesting thoughts from Martin McGrath on Eskragh here Aldebo 1 Issue 39 A review by Seamus Sweeney Advertisement Produced in the North Dublin…
Original here “This is the West, Sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” This famous quote from John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is…
Here is the original. Tom Shone’s big idea seemed more radical in 2005 than it does now – indeed now it is pretty much mainstream. The triumph of what is still…
From The Social Affairs Unit blog on January 5th 2005. Since this was written, and even more “modernised” version, the BBC’s “Sherlock”, has been made and widely celebrated. While I initially…
This book is a good example of contemporary (well, 14 year old at this stage) academic writing in the humanities – jargon and theory rich, concerned with unpicking privilege and inequality…
Nuclear angst was a staple for those who were old enough to be aware of the oft-trumpeted apocalyptic threat in the 1980s. In the 1990s it became a lot less…
Séamus Sweeney 