Louth Music Festival now has it’s own Twitter channel at Twitter/louthmusicfest . Try it out and keep up to date with events.
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Iran Election & Twitter, YouTube & Flickr
June 16th, 2009 by
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I’ve been following the events unfolding on Twitter and the various links to other social networking sites, and it has been fascinating. Despite all the recent scepticism about Twitter, this does seem to be a real time unrolling of events. If you want to follow what is going on you need to log into Twitter and type #IranElection or #gr88 into the search engine and watch as the stream of news comes up.
Personally I think Obama has been correct to keep any comments from the Oval Office muted. Any sign of support from the USA for the demonstrators could result in a terrible crackdown by the hardliners and would certainly be regarded as interference in the affairs of a sovereign state. To say the world is watching is at this stage enough. One wishes the Green Revolution well, but this is an affair for Iranians to sort out for themselves. It is a pity that Russia hasn’t learnt this lesson and is sabre rattling for the discredited Iranian government. Mousavi is not a moderate in western terms but he does seem to have the backing of his people. If the election has been snatched as suggested then only a rerun will be acceptable to the Iranian people, a recount would be ridiculous.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
June 15th, 2009 by
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I have finished reading this Hosseini’s second novel and was not disappointed. The Kite Runner is very good, A Thousand Splendid Suns was even better. It is a gripping story, well told, and about a subject, a religion and a country we in the west know far too little about.
Told through the eyes of two Afghan women, we travel through roughly thirty years of Afghan history, encountering every twist and turn of the tortuous events of one of the most unstable periods in the country’s memory; through invasion, revolution, counter-invasion, famine and drought and finally, what may have turned out to be the false dawn of hope.
This is not a book for the faint-hearted, or for those who don’t want their preconceived ideas of Afghanistan shattered. It is raw and uncompromising, but tells a gripping and disturbing story with emotion, truth and guts but without sentiment. I found it high on the list of books I would wish to read again.
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Louth Music Festival – 2009
June 10th, 2009 by
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Check out the Louth Music Festival site. The festival runs from July 4th to July 11th 2009. There is something for everybody in this week long festival at various venues. Link in the right hand column.
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