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Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti 

Posted on November 6, 2006 by Philip Casey

Robert Fisk gives an object lesson in the contemporary history of Iraq as he reflects on the death sentence of Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti . The suffering of Iraq beggars belief. All because of the curse of oil. Robert Fisk in The Independent (London)

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Irish writers win three Glen Dimplex New Writer Awards 

Posted on November 3, 2006 by Philip Casey

The Glen Dimplex New Writer Awards are for the best book published in the last year in Ireland and the United Kingdom by a first-time author. Each category winner receives €5,000. Philip Ó Ceallaigh, a native of Co Waterford who lives in Bucharest, won the fiction award for his short story collection Notes From a [...]

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