Monthly Archives: July 2012

The Minister With a Conscience

The Minister With A Conscience

 

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Hounding

Hounding.
Def:  A domestic dog of any various breeds commonly used for hunting, characteristically having drooping ears, a short coat and a deep resonant voice.

 

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Revolutionary Unionism

Former Blanket journalist DR JOHN COULTER has been developing his Revolutionary Unionist ideology in recent years. In this exclusive article for Long Kesh Inside Out, he suggests loyalists consider its concepts as a political way forward and a method by which loyalism can give leadership to the Protestant community.

 

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ACT East Belfast

Act for Community Transformation - ACT Initiative – ‘Feet on the Street’ Project

Action for Community Transformation – ACT Initiative – ‘Feet on the Street’ Project

Members of Ballymacarett Somme Association, in partnership with the East Belfast ACT Area Action Group, participated in a sponsored walk from Pitt Park to the grounds of Stormont on Saturday 29th June, 2012.  The project was to raise funds for the Ballymacarrett Women’s Group and their forthcoming children’s party and cultural day on July 11th for children living on the Interface.  Jim Wilson, chairman of Ballymacarrett Somme Association stated; “we have a long record of attempting to help community initiatives when we can and on this occasion our members have excelled by raising £1000 for the kids in the area”.  This partnership work consolidates our commitment  in ‘reaching out’ to the local communities and, once again, shows our efforts in working positively at grassroots level for the good of the community.  The ACT Initiative continues to play a meaningful role in the transformation of our members and the development of working-class communities.

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Get Your Boots On

This poem will probably only hit home to those of a certain age and who were “fortunate” enough to be Compound men.  The phrase became part of our every day speak particularly in the early days of political status when we seemed to have showdowns with virtually everyone.  Even now nearly forty years later I would hear some of the auld hands joke about getting their boots on.

 

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Jackie McDonald’s Contribution to Maintaining Loyalist Culture

http://audioboo.fm/boos/877894-uda-leader-calls-on-orange-order-to-abandon-return-parades-to-defuse-tensions-on-the-streets-during-the-twelfth

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Sixties Soliloquy

SIXTIES SOLILOQUY

 

On a marvellous night for Moondance
 Twiggy stole our hearts
MLK had an impossible dream
JFK’s was blasted apart

 

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Time for A Working Class Re-Think?

Robert Allen, has asked us all a very important question. “How do we intend to get Working Class Loyalists off their arses, out of the pubs and into the polling booths?” I suggest that we begin by getting off our own arses first and flooding this site with constructive ideas ,on how we can transform the PUP into the sort of Working Class Party, that all Working Class Loyalists can support and vote for regardless of which organisation, or none, that they have pledged their Loyalty to. 

 

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The Twelfth Morning–Templemore Avenue

THE TWELFTH MORNING—TEMPLEMORE AVENUE

 

Bunting, fluttering, skipping in the early morning draught
A long lonely note of a fife carried on the breeze
Strong smell of burnt wood drifting– catching every breath
Bleary eyed and weary we head towards the assemblage in the Avenue.

 

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ODE TO THE CRUM

Ode to the Crum.

Slamming doors, dirty floors,

Screams at night, one off the twos, fucking screws,

Stinking food, lock up now, slam those flaps,

Thick stone walls, rusted bars

Man I hate that Crum.

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