The Sound of the Shuttle

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Gerald Dawe. The Sound of the Shuttle

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There is no prescriptive answer here. For the response of the individual imagination is born of a need to get through as best it can to whomever cares to listen. The mediating role of the print and broadcasting world is crucial. For example, take The Irish Reporter, an important left-of-centre journal, published in Dublin. In a recent issue, there are photographs of ‘Protestants at play’. In one of them a woman, doing a knees-up, shows off her knickers; in the background is an Orange band.

Side on, the title declares, the protestants. The facing page carries a statement from Sinn Féin on its struggle to improve the quality of life of Irish people. There are other articles dealing with post-colonialism but, stuck there in the back pages, is that unrepentant Protestant woman, having a good time.

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