Showing posts with label Derek Mahon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Derek Mahon. Show all posts

October 23, 2015

The Garden Centre Prod explained



I am a self-professed garden centre protestant. I wrote about my trip to the Féile an Phobail as a garden centre prod. The Irish historian Roy Foster said Professor Paul Bew coined the term. He didn't in fact. The neologism was the creation of Ms. Bew, i.e. professor Greta Jones.

For the etymology of 'Garden Centre Prod', Professor Greta Jones explains:

October 06, 2015

Northern Ireland's Dance

By Ian Knox
I remain very confused about Belfast and Northern Ireland. So much of it is progressive, cultured and astonishingly metropolitan. Yet the politics is feudal and tribal and certain estates are ominous and intimidating.
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