A useful collection of speeches by the former Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and Ulster Unionist Party leader, Captain Terence O'Neill. Upon readiA useful collection of speeches by the former Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and Ulster Unionist Party leader, Captain Terence O'Neill. Upon reading these speeches, one cannot but think that Northern Ireland would have been a much better place, and the union with Great Britain would have been much stronger, had he been left in peace. I am very much of the opinion that certain revolutionaries sought to undermine the unionist government from both directions via both the Civil Rights Movement and the supposedly hardline unionist critics of Captain O'Neill. ...more
Few of us have heard of the New English Bible let alone read much of it. A friend recommended it to me a few years ago as a useful tool for studying NFew of us have heard of the New English Bible let alone read much of it. A friend recommended it to me a few years ago as a useful tool for studying New Testament Greek. Having finally gotten around to reading its translation of the New Testament, the NEB certainly is beneficial from that point of view. One important point to remember is that it was not an update of the Authorised Version nor was it meant to replace it. From a literary perspective, it is unsuitable for public reading in church services. Much of the heat could be taken out of the KJV-only debate if people on both sides would admit that some translations are good as aids to study, but not for public reading....more
Simon Prince and Geoffrey Warner consider the beginnings of the Northern Ireland "Troubles" in the late 1960s by focusing on events in Belfast and LonSimon Prince and Geoffrey Warner consider the beginnings of the Northern Ireland "Troubles" in the late 1960s by focusing on events in Belfast and Londonderry. Specialists have criticised this book's approach and conclusions, but I thought it was a useful way to examine the beginning of "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland's first and second cities. It further convinced me that people on both sides were being played against each other to discredit Terence O'Neill's unionist government at Stormont. Northern Ireland would have been spared a lot of misery, and the union would probably be in a much stronger position if he had been left in peace. ...more
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