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Wednesday, Feb 8th 2012


Articles Covering Nationalism

Anders Behring Breivik had no legitimate grievance | Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin

An article by Donagh of Dublin Opinion • July 28th 2011

Anders Behring Breivik had no legitimate grievance | Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin
In a Comment is Free post in the Guardian Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin explore the rhetoric being generated since Anders Behring Breivik’s Norway massacre which seeks to explain the violence of the attacks as a result of the “corrosion of Europe by [...]

The Crises of Multiculturalism: Extract from ‘Mediating the Crisis’: Revisiting the ‘Danish cartoon controversy’of 2005-6

The following is an extract from the book The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age, by Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin, which was published by Zed Books on July 10th. The preface was written by the Guardian and The Nation journalist Gary Younge and is available on The Nation website. There is also [...]

A Sense of Belonging

Book Review: New Finnish Grammar,  Diego Marani  (Dedalus Books)

A man is found battered and close to death on the quayside in Trieste during World War II. His identity is unknown and the man himself has completely lost his memory. Who he is and why he was so violently attacked remains unknown.  Is he Sampo Karjalainen, [...]

The Invention of the Jewish People

Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People (Verso, 2010) Paperback £9.99 stg.
Shlomo Sand’s The Invention of the Jewish People, an academically minded historical work that nonetheless spent nineteen weeks on the bestseller list in Israel, is a book that is much more incendiary than it ought to be. Sand’s basic thesis – that [...]

Revising Republicanism

Eoin Ó Broin’s Sinn Féin and the Politics of Left Republicanism (Pluto Books) looked like a timely book when it came out a few weeks ago.  Events since have only emphasised the relevance of its argument.
The book opens with a trenchant defence of Sinn Féin against allegations that is an authoritarian, quasi-fascist movement. Ó Broin acknowledges [...]

Sins of the Father

Sins of the Father:

Tracing the Decisions

That Shaped the Irish Economy,

by Conor McCabe

from The History Press

Now Available as an e-Book.

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