Dunloy colours, more's the pain

such a kind thing to say about a book that is essentially, come to think of it, in Kerry colours

It's the same thing

I will really look forward to looking at these, because I think it always gives such a useful sense of 'official' attitudes at the time. I have looked at some of them from the 1920s on and some equally callous comments about the Belfast pogroms appear

Fuck anybody talking about anything other than the British state's war crimes

That's very kind - thanks for reading it!

Late Allen

I finished my paper talking about my grandparents, and the ways that we talk about people as demographics or lost causes

Siobhra Aiken (QUB) leads off the afternoon session on the cultural and memory resonances of partition and the boundary commission