Evening in Belfast

Another Pesky Belfast Mural

Talk about Podcasting
This is a conversation I had with Paddy Hoey, editor of Gobshite’s Miscellany, about blogging and podcasting and the future of new media and old. Mind you, Paddy did most of the talking. We recorded it over an ordinary BT landline with a SSS RTL-650 from Solid State Sound.  

The Churches and the Troubles
One overlooked aspect of the Eames Bradley report on the past was the charge that the churches have a respionsibility for sectarianism. Rev Lesley Carroll explained it all to the Clonard Fitzroy Fellowship last week. [embed]http://modoherty.net/podcasts/churchblame.mp3[/embed]

The new book, some extracts..
My next book, Under His Roof, to be published by Summer Palace Press in time for Christmas, is a sequence of vignettes about my late father, Barney O’Doherty. I have recorded a few pieces below and will add more later. Keeping Yourself to Yourself Barney assessed the merits of a man by his ability to keep quiet about his doings. Barney’s Dogs We always knew a dog’s time was up when it started to cough. These were dry hacking coughs that disturbed the creature’s whole body. And the bounce woul