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		<title>LIMERICK, IRELAND: JANUARY 1900</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 1900 1.      Compensation Water At the dawn of the 19th century the fishermen of Limerick had a serious problem. Something big was about to happen in their native city and they were ready, willing and hopefully able to do all in their power to stop the march of progress. The Limerick Fishery Conservators, presided [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1488&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marconi And The Titanic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Central News Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guglielmo Marconi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARCONI AND THE TITANIC By Gerard J. Hannan ‘CQD CQD SOS Titanic Position 41.44 N 50.24 W. Require immediate assistance. Come at once.We struck an iceberg. Sinking’ (12.17am 15.April.1912) (Titanic, 1912) From the very second the first SOS signal was sent from Titanic in the early hours of April 15, 1912 when that high-pitched musical tone [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1485&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hollywood History (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/hollywood-history-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Audrey Hepburn]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[classical hollywood cinema]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hitchcock film]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[oscars]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historical Interconnections and Differences Between Film and Television Drama as Industries and As Creative Processes Part 1 Differences in History of Film: 1. Hegemony Of Classical Hollywood Cinema By 1930s 2. Variety Of Alternative ‘National’ Cinemas 3. Distinction Between Popular And ‘Art House’ Cinema 4. Dimensions Of Social Class 5. Advent Of ‘New Hollywood Cinema’ [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1474&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gerry Hannan &#8216;Live&#8217; Now On Eirechill</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/gerry-hannan-live-now-on-eirechill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE GERRY HANNAN SHOW Join me now on Eirechill as I present my unique selection of Irish Celtic Music for the next few hours. OR SEND A REQUEST TO THE STUDIO &#160; &#160; &#160; Filed under: Extra Postings Tagged: Arts &#38; Entertainment, Business, Contact geometry, Daniel Hannan, Labels, Music, Record label, Specialty<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1470&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celtic Roots</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/celtic-roots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Celt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Celtic mythology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celtic Roots Authors Note: The following is a synopsis of Chapters 1 and 2 from ‘Celtic Mythology’  (Geddes &#38; Grosset, 1999). I have extracted some of the key points in relation to the Irish Celts. Gerard J. Hannan. The Celts are much less well known to us than the Greeks and the Romans were although [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1465&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nazis: A Warning From History (Full Series)</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2013/01/13/nazis-a-warning-from-history-full-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nazis: A Warning from History is a 1997 BBC documentary film series that examines Adolf Hitler and the Nazis&#8217; rise to power, their zenith, their decline and fall, and the consequences of their reign. It featured archive footage and interviews with eye witnesses and was shown in six episodes. The series was written and produced by Laurence Rees. The historical and script consultant [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1438&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zeitgeist 3 : Moving Forward</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/12/19/zeitgeist-3-moving-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jacque Fresco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Locke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Joseph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Sapolsky]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward is the third and final installment in Peter Joseph&#8217;s Zeitgeist film trilogy. The film was launched for free on the internet starting January 26, 2011. As of December, 2012, the film had over 19 million views on YouTube. The film is arranged into four successive parts. Within each part is an amalgam of interviews, narration and animated sequences. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1391&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zeitgeist 2 : Addendum</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bernard Lietaer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The film begins and ends with excerpts from a speech by Jiddu Krishnamurti. The remainder of the film is narrated by Peter Joseph and divided into four parts, each prefaced by an on-screen quotation from a notable scholar: Krishnamurti, John Adams, Bernard Lietaer, and Thomas Paine, respectively. Part I Part One states that money is the most corrosive societal tradition [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1388&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zeitgeist 1 : The Movie</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/12/19/zeitgeist-full-movie-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zeitgeist: The Movie is a 2007 documentary film by Peter Joseph. It asserts the Christ myth theory and a number of conspiracy theory-based ideas, including alternative theories for the parties responsible for the September 11 attacks in 2001 and that bankers manipulate the international monetary system and the media in order to consolidate power. The film was released online on June 18, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1384&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harris &amp; McCourt Feud</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/harris-mccourt-feud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 20:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Ashes Debate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bitter feud between fellow Limerick men over destiny of &#8216;Angela&#8217;s Ashes&#8217; One person will be spinning furiously in his grave at the unveiling of sculptor Seamus Connolly&#8217;s bronze bust of Frank McCourt in Dublin&#8217;s Writers Museum. The late Richard Harris would not take kindly to the bronze veneration of his fellow Limerick man and Angela&#8217;s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1376&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Resurrection (A Film Treatment)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RESURRECTION (Treatment) by Gerard J. Hannan Act I The sun falls on a small group of people standing around a grotto praying the Rosary and led by FR SIDD (45). Five noisy teenagers, four boys and girl, are playing with a football nearby. The priest interrupts the prayers and insists that the teenagers move away. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1373&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Painful Struggle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were tracking the news from Ireland over the past two weeks, you might have noticed the ironic coincidence of two stories.  When the author of the international best seller &#8220;Angela&#8217;s Ashes,&#8221; Frank McCourt, died on July 19, the Irish press was as quick to praise him in death as it had been to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1370&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sting Of Memory</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; THE STING OF MEMORY FRANK MCCOURT, AUTHOR OF &#8220;ANGELA&#8217;S ASHES,&#8221; IS BEING HONORED IN HIS HOMETOWN OF LIMERICK. BUT SOME LOCALS HAVE THEIR IRISH UP ABOUT MCCOURT&#8217;S RECOLLECTION OF GRINDING POVERTY IN THE CITY&#8217;S &#8220;LANES.&#8221; By Fawn Vrazo The Philadelphia Inquirer November 4, 1997 LIMERICK, IRELAND: Frank McCourt is back in Limerick, the city [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1366&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Memoir Lashed And Loved</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANGELA&#8217;S ASHES&#8217; AUTHOR FINDS FOES, FRIENDS IN LIMERICK By Kevin Cullen Boston Globe Staff October 29, 1997 LIMERICK, Ireland &#8212; When he came back to this city that he hates, loves, and can&#8217;t get over, Frank McCourt brought along his three brothers because, as he put it, &#8220;In Limerick, you&#8217;ve got to watch your back.&#8221; [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1361&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Harris On McCourt And Angela&#8217;s Ashes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Harris Stands Up For His Native City in Local Radio Interview By Eugene Phelan Airdate January 20th 2000 International film star Richard Harris has publicly lambasted his fellow Limerickman and contemporary Frank McCourt for his depiction of Limerick in the Pulitzer Prize winning book ANGELA’S ASHES. He also launched an attack on film director [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1357&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Miserable Liar?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rarely has a book had such a compelling opening line. &#8216;When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1353&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A City Descending Into &#8216;Ashes&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; A City Descending Into &#8216;Ashes&#8217; By Gerard Hannan He was known by his childhood friends as Frank &#8216;The Flay&#8217; McCourt because on his first day at Leamy&#8217;s School he was handed a small bun with hard burnt raisins on top. He had never seen a &#8216;burnt raisin&#8217; in his life and he threw the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1350&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Angela&#8217;s Ashes: Untold Stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first heard of Angela &#8216;Sheehan&#8217; McCourt in 1996 it was from two aunts of mine who told me that they went to Bingo every Saturday night with two &#8216;lovely women&#8217; from the lanes of Limerick. It was a regular Saturday night outing for the four ladies as they made their way through the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1343&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;Ashes&#8217; Interview</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/the-ashes-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a full and forthright EXCLUSIVE interview with Limerick.com controversial author, journalist and broadcaster Gerard Hannan talks about his Limerick childhood, his brush with the international media, his popularity as a tamed Irish shock-jock and his globally famous row with Pulitzer prize-winning author of Angela&#8217;s Ashes Frank McCourt. Interview conducted by Jan Rice for Limerick.com [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1340&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of Irish Food</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/the-myth-of-irish-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper begins by assessing Roland Barthes theory of ‘Mythologies’ and its primary elements and uses these tools to analyse recent Irish media texts successfully advocating the consumption of Irish foods. However, while the ‘Buy Irish’ campaign has been successful in creating demand the Irish economy has failed in delivering Irish product to demanding consumers [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1335&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Screenplay: A New Paradigm</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/the-screenplay-a-new-paradigm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[gaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oscars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paradigm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plot point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protagonist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Screenplay]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Syd Field]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The Screenplay: A New Paradigm By Gerard J. Hannan Screenplays are visual. Dialogue is at a minimum. Words are not all that is required to explain the story. Pictures should do all the work. Movies, by definition, are moving pictures. Pictures that move. (Keane, 1998) Writing a treatment accomplishes many goals. Treatments reflect the intricacies [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1315&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Postmodernism In The Films Of David Lynch</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/postmodernism-in-the-films-of-david-lynch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Filmmaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historiographic metafiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intertextuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magic realism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maximalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paranoia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Postmodern characteristics in the movies. The primaryt elements of postmodernism in cinema are Pastiche, Intertextuality, Metafiction, Historiographic metafiction, Temporal distortion, Technoculture and hyperreality, Paranoia, Maximalism, Minimalism, Faction, Participation &#38;  Magical realism in the films of Daviid Lynch. In this short film these elements are demonstrated. Filed under: Media Tagged: Arts, Film, Filmmaking, Historiographic metafiction, Intertextuality, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1304&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Postmodernism And American Animation</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/postmodernism-and-american-animation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Age of Enlightenment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fredric Jameson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holocaust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean Baudrillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Postmodernism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Simpsons]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; This paper offers a brief history of postmodernism followed by an analysis of the writings of two of the most prominent theorists of postmodernism in aesthetic production, Jean Francois Lyotard and Frederic Jameson. There is a postmodernist reading of American contemporary TV animation using primarily two animated programs; Seth McFarlane’s Family Guy (Family Guy, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1301&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syd Fields Three Act Structure Paradigm</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/syd-fields-three-act-structure-paradigm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magnolia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert McKee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syd Field]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UBS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; “Structure is the prime element of film.” (Miller, 1984) “Screenplays are structure; that’s all they are. They are structure.” (Goldman, 1981) But, while the importance of structure is clear, interpretation is often less so. Syd Field’s ‘three-act-structure’ model is a perfectly natural device; not one that can be avoided by screenwriters. It is no more than [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1296&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nazis Take Power.</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/nazis-take-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[European History.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adolf Hitler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[German]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hitler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nazi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nazism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reichstag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weimar Republic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here we shall explore why the Weimar Republic collapsed and how Hitler came to power. What was it that caused the Germans to vote for him and how he went about creating levers of power for himself. It will also elaborate on how Hitler crushed opposition even within his own party. At the start of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1217&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Coming of Nazism.</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/the-coming-of-nazism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[European History.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adolf Hitler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[German]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hitler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mein Kampf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nazi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nazism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prussia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Versailles Treaty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hitler was one of many Germans who believed 1918 marked a betrayal of Germany by its leaders. Corrupt politicians, not army, were accountable for Germany’s sufferings. Hitler’s contempt for bureaucracy was expressed when he wrote; “Was this the meaning of the sacrifice which the German mother made to the fatherland when with sore heart she [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1208&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Whiteboys.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ireland History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[County Tipperary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[County Waterford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Levellers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[munster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seven Years War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tipperary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tithe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waterford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whiteboy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The great tradition of the Whiteboys in the south of Ireland had its beginnings in Tipperary in 1761. They always assembled at night with their shirts over their clothes, which caused them to be called the Whiteboys. The exactions of tithe-farmers and the enclosure of commonage sparked the initial oath bound combination in parts of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1188&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Irish Catholic Question.</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/irish-catholic-and-protestant-divide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ireland History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish Catholic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Penal Laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protestantism in Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Irishmen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction.   All Irish history from around 1550 onward can be regarded as an extended comment on the Catholic question. However, contemporary historians use the term the ‘Catholic question’ in reference to the readmission of Catholics to full civil, religious and political equality in three ways, which were timing, terms and sponsorship. At what point [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1181&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catholicism And Penal Laws (1695)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ireland History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government of Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish Catholic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protestantism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This essay shall explore the purpose and origins of the Irish penal laws which have always been subjects of contention amongst historians. These laws have been viewed as ruthless in their primary purpose of the suppression of Catholics. It has been argued that the penal laws were tolerated by an Irish Parliament greedy for land [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1176&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vocabulary Lessons.</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/vocabulary-lessons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOREMAN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neologism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Student]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching English as a foreign language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vocabulary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction. A Vocabulary lesson is a way of teaching new words to students. When introducing new words it is a mistake to resort to long boring lists of words and simply having the class read them, the teacher to translate them and have students memorise them. This process of teaching new words can be dull [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1161&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Role Play In Class</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/1157/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[role-play]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Student]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teacher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching English as a foreign language]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Role-Play Introduction: Including role-play into the classroom activities adds diversity, a change of pace and occasions for a lot of language production. It can be an essential part of the class and used for a wide variety of learning procedures. Simply put; Role-play is any speaking activity when a student either put themselves into somebody [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1157&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Games In Teaching.</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/language-games-in-teaching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BLEEP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bleep censor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Student]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching English as a foreign language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TEFL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Verb]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[LANGUAGE GAME. BLEEP. The Yes/No Quiz. Introduction. When selecting games for TEFL (Teaching English As A Foreign Language) classes, one must take a much wider look at how the students came to be there, and what English they need to survive. When TEFL students are learning the playing of games can relieve stress, and allow [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1148&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hitchcock: Reluctant Auteur.</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/hitchcock-the-reluctant-auteur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 10:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alfred Hitchcock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grace Kelly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hitchcock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Novak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laura Mulvey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rear Window]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vertigo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lisa: ‘Jeff, do you think a murderer would let you see all that? That he shouldn&#8217;t keep his shades down and hide behind them?’ Jeff: ‘That&#8217;s where he&#8217;s being clever. …..Acting…..nonchalant’. (Hayes 1953) This paper will consider two Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) films; Rear Window (1954) and Vertigo (1958) to explain how ‘acting nonchalant’ the ‘Catholic [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1143&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mickey Mouse And Globalisation.</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/mickey-mouse-and-globalisation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 17:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Mac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coca Cola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disneyland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mickey Mouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Walt Disney Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walt Disney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Globalisation is the transformation of our experiences in our local lives influenced by global forces. In our local lives we are influenced by international news, foreign music, foreign films, food, greater communications and Internet interaction. We are now connected with every other small community in the world and as such we are part of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1139&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Birth Of Modern Europe.</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/birth-of-modern-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 17:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[European History.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Austria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Concert of Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress of Vienna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[French Revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Klemens Von Metternich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Napoleon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Napoleonic Wars]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; This document aims to introduce the main features of European History in the period 1815 to 1848 and to understand and assess key events and to evaluate and analyse how Historians explain these events. The document is a step by step account of the History of ‘Modern’ Europe from the final defeat of Napoleon in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1135&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Film Studies.</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/04/06/film-studies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizen Kane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Ford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maltese Falcon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orson Welles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Spade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Searchers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Welles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Westerns]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Citizen Kane and The Maltese Falcon. 1.        Jump Cut: A jump cut in film editing is when two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly. For example, In the Maltese Falcon we see two characters walking down the street, water walking in the same direction and the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1117&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saints In Hibernia.</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/orders-of-the-saints-in-hibernia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gildas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holy Spirit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saint Patrick]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here begins the Catalogue of the Orders of the Saints in Hibernia according to different periods: 432-543. The first Order of the Saints was in the time of Patrick, and then all the bishops, 350 in number, were famous and holy and full of the Holy Spirit. They were founders of churches, worshipped one head, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1103&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Irish Historical Sources.</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/irish-historical-sources/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ireland History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brehon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celtic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish Language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle Irish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The start of Irish History is usually considered by historians to have happened the 5th century CE with the arrival of St. Patrick because with him came the first written documentation. The language spoken was Celtic and we know this because when St. Patrick arrived he could communicate with the natives. This documented history is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1099&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celtic Myths And Sagas</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/celtic-myths-and-sagas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book of Armagh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book of Ballymote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book of Leinster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saint Patrick]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Through the centuries many events and stories change in the retelling for many reasons. Exaggeration, bias or perhaps hostility to the subject matter or the outcome of the event led to inevitable distortion and misrepresentation of the reality. We must allow for this fact as we study ancient documents relating the events of the distant [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1090&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Irish Evidence To Celts.</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/irish-evidence-to-celts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beltany Stone Circle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bronze Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celtic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[County Roscommon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[River Bann]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In County Roscommon, near the village of Tulsk is the Cruachan which is a complex of archaeological sites in what is described as the capital of Connachta. It hosted some of the main ritual gatherings in ancient times and is important to mythologists as the seat of Ailill and Medb (the intoxicating one – related [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1080&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celtic Conundrum.</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/celtic-conundrum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Pigs Dyke]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was during the Iron Age that Celtic culture was first introduced to Ireland. There were both similarities and differences between Irish Celtic culture and continental cultures of that period. Archaeology and history combine to give us a vivid picture of the Continental Celts but is that picture accurate when it comes to Ireland? Were the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1032&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caesar On The Keltoi.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caesar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[They worship as their divinity, Mercury in particular, and have many images of him, and regard him as the inventor of all arts, they consider him, the guide of their journeys and marches, and believe him to have very great influence over the acquisition of gain and mercantile transactions. Next to him they worship Apollo, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1026&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celtic Religious Festivals.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Coligny Calendar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Halloween]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; We can infer certain things about the religious beliefs of the Celts from the nature of their festivals. To get accurate information about these festivals historians usually turn to the Coligny Calendar which appears to be written in Gaulish by the people of France before the coming of the Romans and this language continued [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1007&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gaulish Influence On Celts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BCE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celtic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celtic polytheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Era]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Generally speaking the basic tenet of Celtic religion was polytheist (belief in many Gods) as opposed to monotheist. We can clearly see from the number of Gods worshipped by the ancient tribes that they were polytheists. It seems that they were also an animist culture – which means they believed that not only people but also [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=1003&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celtic Gods.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celtic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dis Pater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goddess]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish mythology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julius Caesar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Druid priests of the Celts did not write down the stories of their gods and goddesses, but instead transmitted them orally, so our knowledge of the early Celtic deities is limited. Romans of the first century B.C. recorded the Celtic myths and then later, after the introduction of Christianity to the British Isles, the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=975&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celtic European Influences.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celtic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celtic languages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gallic War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iron Age]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In order to fully understand Irish Celtic history we must also understand how the people of the time were influenced by fellow Europeans. For example, Julius Caesar, fuelled by propaganda, who fought the Gaul‘s (or Gallicos) of France, wrote extensively about them. Our main focus is on the Celtic Period or, as it was [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=950&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Four Celtic Cycles.</title>
		<link>http://irishmediaman.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/four-celtic-cycles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cú Chulainn]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fenian Cycle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fionn Mac Cumhaill]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Irish mythology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Irish evidence and international evidence as to how life must have been, not only for the Celts resident in Ireland, but also for international Celts living across Western Europe is mostly based on mythology. The international evidence can show us, for example, what kind of religion the Celtic speaking people of Europe believed in. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=935&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-Christian Ireland.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BCE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celtic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Era]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History of Ireland (400–800)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iron Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prehistoric Ireland]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tory Island]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historians and Mythologists often disagree in relation to when the Celts first arrived in Ireland. Very little was documented prior to the C.600 BCE and this, according to historians, is taken as an indication that this may very well have marked the arrival of the Celts. It was somewhere about 600-500 BCE that the race perhaps [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=924&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Semiotics.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Pierce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ferdinand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linguistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roland Barthes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Semiotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[signs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syntagmatic analysis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; How we communicate with each other, from passing each other on the street, to the more complex forms of communication is the essence of what we will understand by the study of media and communications. When there is a breakdown in communications within any relationship the penalties can be disastrous. More significantly this [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=914&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas: Poet Or Plagiarist?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Hannan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Muse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brendan Behan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brendan Kennelly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Do not go gentle into that good night]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dylan Thomas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Joyce]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sigmund Freud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask any poet and he will tell you Dylan Thomas was a pioneer of contemporary poetry, demonstrated his skills of excellence in the poem &#8220;Do not go gentle&#8221; which has become one of the most quintessential popular culture poems of the modern era. It is a master template for perfection in poetry as art form. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmediaman.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34055313&#038;post=888&#038;subd=irishmediaman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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