Two firefighters and a member of the public die in a fire on the 14th and 15th floors of a 17-storey tower block in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. Seven other people are hospitalised, one in serious condition, and 70 people are evacuated from the block. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/4228737.stm).
Robert Kilroy-Silk offically launches the Veritas political party, on an anti-immigration platform, after quitting the euroscepticUK Independence Party after a failed leadership bid. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4227921.stm)(ThisIsLondon) (http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/16311399?source=PA&ct=5)(Guardian) (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/otherparties/story/0,9061,1404085,00.html)
The British Council’s ongoing partnership with the International Dance Festival Ireland has given Irish audiences the opportunity to see some of the best UK dance companies and choreographers in recent years.
Irish premieres by the Michael Clark Company, Akram Khan, Rosemary Butcher, Sonia Sabri, Jasmin Vardimon, New Art Club and Jonathan Burrows were followed by sell-out performances and the European premiere of DV8’s Just For Show, as the first out-of-festival special event.
In 2006, it was the turn of Nigel Charnock to grab Irish audiences attention with his astonishing performance of Frank at Project Arts Centre, a stage which ‘isn’t big enough to hold him’ (Irish Times).
Current republican strategy and analysis to a large degree is a result of the dynamics that sprang from the events of the H-Block protests and hunger strikes.
Irish Republican strategy is, as often as not, a matter of endurance and exploiting the cards dealt by a superior, imperious, and morally bankrupt force.
The course of the current stage of Irish history has also been profoundly affected by the sacrifice of the ten men who freely gave their young lives that the promise of a just and independent Irish Republic would prevail over the monstrous tyranny that had perverted their country's history for 800 years.
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