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Fortnight (magazine)
''Fortnight'' was a monthly political and cultural magazine published in Belfast, Northern Ireland."Fortnight: A Chapter Closes" The magazine was founded in 1970 with the aim of providing analysis and criticism of politics, culture, and the arts from those from both inside and outside the local mainstream. ''Fortnight'' was read by and contributed to by people from all over the spectrum. is credited as saying "A month without ''Fortnight'' would be twice as long." Previous contributors include politicians and journalists. Most notably, - ex-leade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The UK includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and most of List of islands of the United Kingdom, the smaller islands within the British Isles, covering . Northern Ireland shares Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. It maintains sovereignty over the British Overseas Territories, which are located across various oceans and seas globally. The UK had an estimated population of over 68.2 million people in 2023. The capital and largest city of both England and the UK is London. The cities o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Holland (journalist)
Mary Holland (19 June 1935 – 7 June 2004) was an Irish journalist who specialised in writing about Ireland and in particular Northern Ireland. Born in Dover but raised in Ireland, she married a British diplomat, Ronald Higgins; they lived in Indonesia but the marriage was annulled. She originally worked in fashion for ''Vogue'' magazine and then ''The Observer''. She came to prominence as one of the first Irish journalists to report on the rise of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association and became an increasingly prominent commentator on the affairs of the region. In 1977 Conor Cruise O'Brien was appointed editor-in-chief of the paper. O'Brien was a writer and politician who served as a government minister in the Oireachtas The Oireachtas ( ; ), sometimes referred to as Oireachtas Éireann, is the Bicameralism, bicameral parliament of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The Oireachtas consists of the president of Ireland and the two houses of the Oireachtas (): a ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medbh McGuckian
Medbh McGuckian (born as Maeve McCaughan on 12 August 1950) is a poet from Northern Ireland. Biography She was born the third of six children as Maeve McCaughan to Hugh and Margaret McCaughan in North Belfast. Her father was a school headmaster and her mother an influential art and music enthusiast.Irish women writers: an A-to-Z guide by Alexander G. Gonzalez p. 200. Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, CT, 2006. She was educated at Holy Family Primary School and Dominican College, Fortwilliam and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1972 and a |
James Simmons (poet)
James Stewart Alexander Simmons (1933–2001) was a poet, literary critic and songwriter from Derry, Northern Ireland. Biography Simmons was born into a middle-class Protestant family in Derry in 1933. He attended Campbell College in Belfast before moving to the University of Leeds to read for a degree in English. He married Laura Stinson and returned to Northern Ireland to teach at Friends' School Lisburn for five years. His final foreign excursion was a position at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria, where he worked for three years. During this time, they had five children: Rachael, Sarah, Adam, Helen and Penelope. He returned to Northern Ireland in 1968, accepting a position at the recently opened New University of Ulster in Coleraine, where he remained until his retirement in 1984. During the early '70s (the bloodiest times of all in Northern Ireland), he was the inspiration and leading light for The Resistance Cabaret, a satirical revue combining song, poetry and political ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malachi O'Doherty
Malachi John O'Doherty (born 1951, Muff, County Donegal, Ireland) is a journalist, author and broadcaster in Northern Ireland. He is the producer and presenter of the audio blog ''Arts Talk''. Career O'Doherty was one of the longest running commentators/columnists on any Irish radio programme, having been a regular on Radio Ulster's ''Talkback'' from its creation in the mid-1980s until a revamp of the programme in 2009. He provided political and social commentary for BBC NI's '' Hearts and Minds'' programme, and was often a frequent reporter for BBC Radio Ulster's '' Sunday Sequence'' in the programme's heyday. His political journalism has been published in many Irish and British newspapers and periodicals, including ''The Irish Times'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Sunday Times'', ''The Observer'', ''The Scotsman'' and The ''New Statesman''. In the mid-1990s he worked on and presented several television documentaries on Northern Irish culture and politics, for Channel Four, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Dialogue
Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to: Politics *A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people. *A member of a Democratic Party: **Democratic Party (Cyprus) (DCY) **Democratic Party (Hong Kong) (DPHK) **Democratic Party (Italy) (PD) ** Democratic Party (Japan) (DP) **Democratic Party (United States) (D) **Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ** Democratic Party’s (South Korea, 2015) **Democratic Party (Indonesia) (PD) ** Democratic Party (other), for a full list *A member of a Democrat Party (other) *A member of a Democracy Party (other) *Australian Democrats, a political party *Democrats (Brazil), a political party *Democrats (Chile), a political party * Democrats (Croatia), a political party *Democrats (Gothenburg political party), in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden *Democrats (Greece), a political party *Democrats (Greenland), a political party * Democrats (Slovakia), a political party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Pollak
Andy Pollak is a journalist, editor, writer and commentator focusing on cross-border cooperation in Ireland. He led the Centre for Cross Border Studies, and served on the board of the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation. Early life and education Pollak was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, and largely brought up in London. His father, a Czech citizen of German-speaking Jewish descent, lost his editor's job and was forced to flee Czechoslovakia after the Communist takeover in 1948. His 1951 book, ''Strange Land Behind Me'', tells the story of his 11 years between being badly wounded fighting for the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War in 1937, through adventures and imprisonment in the Balkans and India, to his escape from Prague. Pollak's mother, Eileen Gaston, from Ballymena, had gone to Prague to teach English after the Second World War. He received a history degree from the University of Sussex in 1969. Work After graduation, Pollak spent some time travelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nell McCafferty
Ellen Pamela McCafferty (28 March 1944 – 21 August 2024) was an Irish journalist, playwright, civil rights campaigner and feminist. She wrote for ''The Irish Press'', ''The Irish Times'', ''Sunday Tribune'', ''Hot Press'' and ''The Village Voice''. Early life McCafferty was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, to Hugh and Lily McCafferty, a devout Catholic, and spent her early years in the Bogside area of the city. She was admitted to Queen's University Belfast (QUB) where she earned a degree in Arts. After a brief spell as a substitute English teacher in Northern Ireland and a stint on a kibbutz in Israel, she took up a post with ''The Irish Times''. Career McCafferty was a founding member of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement. Her journalistic writing on women and women's rights reflected her beliefs on the status of women in Irish society. In 1970, she wrote that "Women's Liberation is finding it very hard to explain the difference, when you come down to it, except in ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Walsh (journalist)
Richard (Dick) "Drug" Walsh (30 December 1877 – 28 July 1958) was an Irish hurler who played as a centre-forward at senior level for the Kilkenny county team. Born in Mooncoin, County Kilkenny, Walsh first arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of twenty-four when he first linked up with the Kilkenny senior team. He made his senior debut during the 1904 championship. Walsh immediately became a regular member of the starting fifteen, and won seven All-Ireland medals and seven Leinster medals. His idol was ‘Big Joe’ Scullion with the diabetes and the bad leg from the North. It’s said he took the nickname ‘Drug’ because Big Joe took a lot of ibuprofen for the bad leg. He captained the team to the All-Ireland titles in 1907, 1909 and 1913. As a member of the Leinster inter-provincial team Walsh captained the team to the Railway Shield. At club level he was a four-time championship medallist with Mooncoin. Walsh retired from inter-county hurling following th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cooney (journalist)
John Cooney may refer to: * Johnny Cooney (1901–1986), American baseball player * John Cooney (boxer) (1996–2025), Irish boxer * John Cooney (politician) (1836–1894), American lawyer and politician from New York * John Cooney (rugby union) (born 1990), Irish rugby union player * John Cooney (video game developer), American game designer from Sacramento {{hndis, Cooney, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conor O'Clery
Conor O'Clery is an Irish journalist and writer. Background Born in Belfast, Conor O'Clery graduated from Queen's University Belfast in 1972. He was deputy editor of The Gown, the QUB student newspaper. Career O'Clery worked for ''The Irish Times'' for over 30 years in various positions, including news editor and foreign correspondent based in London, Moscow, Washington, D.C., Beijing and New York City. He wrote for ''The New Republic'' from Moscow, contributed columns to ''Newsweek International'', and has been a frequent commentator on broadcast channels BBC, NPR and CNN. O'Clery won several awards, including Journalist of the Year, twice, in Ireland: first, in 1987, for his reporting of the Soviet Union, and secondly, in 2002, for reporting the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, which he witnessed from his office three blocks away. O'Clery has written a number of books. He lives in Dublin with his Russian-born Armenian wife, Zhanna. His book, ''The Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Belfast Telegraph
The ''Belfast Telegraph'' is a daily newspaper published in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by Independent News & Media, which also publishes the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent and various other newspapers and magazines in Ireland. Its editor is Eoin Brannigan. Reflecting its unionist tradition, the paper has historically been "favoured by the Protestant population", while also being read within Catholic nationalist communities in Northern Ireland. It has been owned by Independent News and Media, a Dublin-based media company, since 2000, and is the company's only print title outside of the Republic of Ireland. History It was first published as the ''Belfast Evening Telegraph'' on 1 September 1870 by brothers William and George Baird. Its first edition cost half a penny and ran to four pages covering the Franco-Prussian War and local news. The evening edition of the newspaper was originally called the "Sixth Late", and "Sixth Late Tele" was a familiar cry made by vendors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
