The Irish

Henry Kelly is totes on-topic for this thread

After graduating from University College Dublin with a degree in English in 1968, he became journalist with The Irish Times, and was swiftly promoted to the post of its Belfast-based Northern Editor in 1970, at the start of civil unrest and The Troubles in Northern Ireland, a post which he held for five years. During his time in Ulster he published the book How Stormont Fell (1972), which is still highly regarded in its field

hmm 2 stars on goodreads 1 vote, nary a mention on amazon reviews even or nowhere else.. cracking work on your own wiki entry though henry.

If we are not to wait until the final act or at least an exhausted pause, it is necessary to be quickly in and quickly out. An excellent example of the problems and prospects of such an exercise can be found in Henry Kelly's How Stormont Fell (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1972) that covers the period of Faulkner's Premiership, March, 1971, to March, 1972. Kelly, Northern Editor of the Irish Times, long a perceptive and knowledgeable if not completely disinterested observer of the Northern scene, has done a sound and balanced study, good journalism in the best sense of the word. And the book had an obvious beginning and end, came out in a rush while the iron was hot and a ready-made

j. bowyer bell on kelly's book

lol that’s hilarious

exellent!

in terms of actual good books by Irish people who later became tv personalities, have either if ye read It’s Only A Game?

yes, it's very good, as is a strange kind of glory, dunphy's book on matt busby (himself a member of the irish diaspora) is similarly excellent.

Duphy book sounds ace, my 3rd fave Graun writer Richard Williams reps for it as well.

It’s so good! Can also recommend Tony Cascarino’s book

The rocky road gets some praise as well.

I met Sarah Kennedy once, must've pulled a face when we were doing a cheek kiss for the photographer cos she said something like "I'm not into this either" in a pissy voice

its probably the 4th or 5th time that Ive mentioned it on the board, but yes the Tony Cascarino book is excellent

But do you recommend any books by Irish footballers? <----- the old ones are the best

I associate Cascarino with TalkSport and just assume anything to do with him is bad. ftr I don't even know if he is still a TS regular.

Idk but that book was pretty honest about him & his failings and as such is a lot more memorable than yr usual “we got a great result and the gaffer was over the moon” autos. Strong recommend alongside the Dunphy one!

Believe me as a Celtic fan I don't need to read a book to know about Tony Cascarino's failings.

lol you should still read it though

Paul McGrath's book is good

Not light reading though, needless to say

The button pushing scandal is fucking ridiculous.

https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2019/1023/1085079-dail-votes/

Something to be said for the Brits’ painfully slow method after all.

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2019/10/22/ireland-queuing-to-see-the-look-on-arlene-fosters-face/

I’m actually dying. Is this real?! The best thing they’ve done since man falling on the ice, and maybe Bachelors Walk for my favourite RTÉ thing ever.

Excuse me? @rtenews 😂😂😂🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇 pic.twitter.com/ZCXwNoja2v

— Holly Carpenter (@Holly0910) October 31, 2019

Haha I love it

Really into this Reeling in the Years account, Seamus Heaney reading a poem while Dragostea Din Tei plays over the top is peak

pic.twitter.com/HuHL8s8Dm8

— No Context Reeling In The Years (@ReelingDotJPG) November 1, 2019

jesus rte

The 2000s edition of Reeling in the Years was notably inferior to the preceding ones, especially from a music supervision standpoint

Or maybe it's just that life was

Possibly? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of those ones.

1996 pic.twitter.com/VhEJ1QudQy

— No Context Reeling In The Years (@ReelingDotJPG) November 1, 2019

I take it back, this was of course superb and would have been so in any decade

2005 pic.twitter.com/80yei9QEzz

— No Context Reeling In The Years (@ReelingDotJPG) November 1, 2019

ah can we not with the 96 final lads pls

Too soon?

until we fuckin win one*

*ive won one but god bless mayo i am a strong ally and their lot is mine

Ye know you can’t win one til the curse is lifted

that last bugger died before last year's exit fyi

i mean to whom do we appeal

is this contingent on us taking 13 asylum seekers because ive taken the temperature down home and its shaky enough lookin

Don’t ye have to wait for the whole 51 team to die?

ya i think they're all gone now

uh rip like

Paddy Prendergast still going?

look if im honest it looks dodge when our lot track them like that dyhear what im sayin

Nadine Coyle and Andrew Maxwell both on I’m A Celebrity..., what a time to be alive.

Had to Google Andrew Maxwell, still none the wiser.

He's the wtf guy sitting beside Brendan O'Neill when Big Bren is going on about being from Irish peasant stock.

Ah right, good lad, hope he likes kangaroo balls

i can support him when the stage is us vs tories

otherwise, he had a wonderful mother id say

Andrew Maxwell used to be on The Panel and had the rare quality of resembling both Haughey and Bosco

https://youtu.be/4Xlo_IU2gcI

He supports Scottish football team Hibernian F.C..[3]

Poseur.

Are you suggesting he’s overcompensating?

paddying the cv

returning the soup

Not sure why anyone outside of Leith would support Hibs tbh.