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Five Questions: A Guy’s Moleskine Notebook

8th August 2006 with 1 Comment

1. Why do you blog?
I’ve waited for years to have a website but being deprived of knowledge of HTML, Java and techie skills, I never knew how to establish one. Then the review community at Amazon.com seemed appealing to me and I began submitting book reviews to the site in 2000. A few of my [...]

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The Wind That Shakes The Barley

8th June 2006 with 10 Comments

The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Ken Loache’s film about Ireland in 1919 and the unanimous winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, has been much criticized by the British press.
A “poisonously anti-British corruption of the history of the war of Irish independence … The Wind That Shakes the Barley is not just wrong. It [...]

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