Author: Ralph Robb
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The Twist- Article 3
The Arrest In a work of fiction, particularly crime fiction, the story may include an event, a small, seemingly inconsequential event that leads to unforeseen consequences. And so it is with Don’s story but unfortunately this is no work of fiction and the consequences of this small action would prove to be catastrophic for him.…
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The Troubles Legacy Legislation
The Troubles Legacy legislation passed by the British Conservative government has been condemned by politicians of all shades in Ireland and yet goes mostly unremarked upon in Britain.
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No Stone Unturned review – a scrupulous documentary
This documentary unsparingly recounts the 1994 murders of six men and wounding of five others at O’Toole’s Bar in County Down. But to illustrate how difficult it is to find the answers that would lead to some form of justice, two of the journalists who supplied material for the film were arrested by the Police…
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The Themes of What Goes Around
By the time I began to write my story back in the 1990s one of my preoccupations had become the lack of access to justice for people without much money, ‘social status’, or connections. Distance in time and space, as I had by then immigrated to Canada with my wife and four children, had helped…
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The Twist- Article 2
As well as holding leftwing views, like millions of others, Don Blaney believes that Ireland should be a 32 county republic. But he doesn’t just believe that a republic would best serve the Irish, whatever their religious or ethnic background, he also believes – as someone who has helped people regardless of their nationality –…
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The Twist Article 1
The Twist Prologue In the coming weeks and months I will be publishing 24 short articles that I wrote following my conversations with the man who was also my literary editor and publisher who became caught up with the investigation into, what was then, the biggest bank robbery ever to have taken place in Ireland…
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When Malcolm X took on British Racism
Such was the furore following the election in Smethwick in 1964 that the civil rights campaigner Malcolm X was moved to pay a visit.
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Enoch Powell
Wolverhampton became a byword for hostility towards inhabitants who were not white and British when in 1968 Enoch Powell, a local MP, made a speech to his fellow Conservatives in which he called for people like my parents to be repatriated. As warning of what could happen should immigrants continue to be allowed into Britain…
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The Twist
In the coming weeks and months I will be publishing 24 short articles that I wrote following my conversations with the man who was also my literary editor and publisher who became caught up with the investigation into, what was then, the biggest bank robbery ever to have taken place in Ireland or Britain. The…
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