Northern Ireland in the hands of the cast of a comic operetta

Irish Independent ^ | 4 November 2001 | Eilis O'Hanlon

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Today's Northern Ireland News

[Banjoguy]

...couldn't care less. There seems to be quite enough political intrigue and violence in the states.

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Sadly, some of it is funding terrorism in Northern Ireland.

[Dan De Quille]

Thanks for the Newshound link, Norn. Bookmarked.

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Rep. Peter King supporting terrorism in Northern Ireland

[Valin]

Some of us do, care that is. You my have noticed that it has become a very small world in the last 100 years or so.

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Bomb in Birmingham, England, UK

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Brendan O'Leary - apologist for terrorists

Irish terrorists bowed to pressure when Haass kicked ass. According to O'Leary the terrorists volunteered to be good boys!!

[slane]

Hello Norn and thanks for the ping! Speaking of Peter King, if you ever want a laugh, take a look at his painfully amateurish effort at fiction, 'A Terrible Beauty'(if you can find a copy, that is). It's an unintentionally comical, cliche-packed hymn to the IRA thinly disguised as a novel, as well as a revealing look at how King sees things in NI. All the characters are one-dimensional cardboard cutouts - saintly, oppressed Catholics protected from the evil oppressor Prods and Brits by the noble IRA. The one bad Catholic is the informer, who of course has an English surname to underscore his treachery. I thumbed through it in a bookshop and would have bought it as an example of how really dreadful writing can make it into print if the author is a well-known congressman, but I didn't want to put any money in King's pocket.

[Norn Iron]

Click Gerry Adams - Before the Dawn for another gem from the same school!!

In days of old
When knights were bold
And toilets weren't invented,
They did a load
In the middle of the road
And went away contented

His trousers were down around his ankles. He was cleaning his backside with a handful of grass and bracken.

"G'wan, yi dirty baste!" we screamed in unison. "You're stinking."

[Norn Iron]

"Terrible Beauty" Book Launch at Boston College

Many felt it got a great boost when President Clinton was recently seen with it under his arm as he got off Air Force One.

Don't they have a washroom on Air Force One? Clinton was last seen heading for the outdoor privy!!

[slane]

Gerry's fond memories of his bucolic days as a wee lad rambling the slopes of Divis Mountain is positively eloquent next to Peter's efforts! At least the dialogue is genuine.

the book has received very favorable reviews

Ah, but from who? They don't mention that, do they! If the best you can do is cite Bubba carting your book around as a recommendation, that's pretty pathetic!

[Norn Iron]

A novel written by a politician ought to be regarded much as Dr. Johnson looked upon the dancing bear: One is impressed not so much that it is done well, but that it is done at all. That said, it must still be pointed out that Congressman King has given us a piece of IRA agitprop that Brendan Behan himself wouldn't be able to read with a straight face.

[Imperial Warrior]

Lots of IRA funding seems to come out of Boston, Massachusetts, the launch base for the four terrorist hijackers that killed thousands of innocent American civilians and more if they could have.