Thanks for starting this interesting train of thought. I wonder if perhpas the latter might be achieved with the help of volunteers? There would have to be both the technology and the personal capacity to ensure that every page they visited was scrutinised. I wonder if it might be possible to make internet access a privilage for some prisoners? There would have to be rules. But prisoners do not have it and this is becoming a bigger and bigger barrier to their opportunity to interact normally with society.īeing able to post and discuss things on the internet is deeply healing for many too. As a society we are rightly addressing the importance of access to the interenet and the issues faced by those who do not have it. Your comment and recent events have made me think quite a lot about the way we interact with our prisoners Anna. ** To order signed copies of Alastair’s diaries via Waterstone’s, click here
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** School of Poetry, which includes poems from author Terry Pratchett, TV presenter Robert Llewellyn, as well as students and teachers from the school, can be found at Not the millions of shards still flying behind my eyes He nods and I wonder how he can know it has broken Now mixing so harsh so ugly I can look no more Of noise and colour, of voices and music and memory The tiny hands before my eyes can hold the glass no more I’m cracking up … I want Elvis or Johnny Cash or no, Kris Kristofferson Just as the brassband merged with the bagpipes Into a maelstrom of noise and colour and people I never knew why they called it cracking up I tried all sorts of ideas before settling on this poem, WHEN THE MIND CRACKS, which is clearly inspired by my own crack-up in 1986. I was approached a few months ago and asked to write a poem for a book being prepared by Bovington Middle School in Dorset, to raise money both for the school’s English deparment and for Help for Heroes. However, despite the possibilities afforded by the forum, which are utilized by posters for performing Irish in different ways, these everyday practices are effectively erased and invalidated by the prevailing discourses, which rely strongly on the notion of bilingualism as parallel and discrete monolingualisms.After yesterday’s guest blog on happiness, today I turn to the subject of madness, more specifically my own. The features of the forum and the online, real-time evolution of the discussion thread impact in a number of ways upon these discourses and ideologies. In the discussion thread, three particular discourses emerge: a "discourse of truth" about Irish as lacking both authority as a national language and authenticity as a minority language of a recognizable ethnic group a discourse of "them and us" involving a differentiation between "Irish speakers" and "non-Irish speakers", largely based on notions of competence and, finally, a newly emerging discourse of "sexy Irish", which signals a commodification of Irish speakers as young, beautiful and mediatisable. This article explores some of that complexity by investigating a thread on an online discussion forum on the subject of the first ever party leaders' debate in Irish that took place during the 2011 general election in Ireland. Thematising Irish in the media reflects the complex and contradictory sociolinguistic and language-ideological situation in Ireland.
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