Monday, February 4, 2008
Evelyn
The Times
November 19, 2007
Richard Ford
"The Bill proposes to remove the need for IVF providers to take into account the child's need for a father when considering an IVF application, and to confer legal parenthood on people who have no biological relationship to a child born as a result of IVF. This radically undermines the place of the father in a child's life, and makes the natural rights of the child subordinate to the desires of the couple. It is profoundly wrong."
The Well Below The Valley
The song is called The Well Below the Valley. Apparently it's an old Irish itinerant song. The first version I heard of it was by Christy Moore on his Live at the Point album (fuller version than this one), and there are versions of the song by him on youtube.
So disturbing. They violate their own fucking dogma. If you confess sins to God via confession than you are forgiven. They denied that for these women. It's as if they were condemmed to death for fuckin nothin
Its easy to blame the Catholic Church and the Irish State for everything that happened in the Magdalene Laundries but the families who sent their girls there are as much to blame and they should be ashamed of themselves turning their backs. Maybe the world was a different place back then but thats still no excuse.
In The Name Of The Father
You're right, it still happens. Thousands of Irish men and women were imprisoned without charge or trial during the Troubles by the British. Today, the same is happening to Muslims in the name of the so-called 'war on terror', in prisons in Britain, Guantanamo Bay, and around the world. All to further the aims of US foreign policy or the great oil grab.
The Playboy Of The Western World
This exciting production is innovative and unique drawing on the counterpoints of an Irish story and contemporary urban Chinese culture. The well known anti-hero Christy Mahon morphs into a fast-taking Chinese who hangs out in a foot massage parlour. Rather than a village in darkest rural Ireland , this Asian version is transposed to a modern setting of an a 'Whore-dressers' on the outskirts of Beijing in 2006
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