Interesting Links for 11-01-2017

[nwhyte]

Martin McGuiness’s departure represents failure on all sides
Newton Emerson sums it up.
(tags: northernireland )

Peter Weston (1944-2017)
Among many other things, he owned the foundry which has made the Hugo Awards since 1984.
(tags: hugos sf death )

North looking at a new election landscape
My piece for Wednesday's Irish Times
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Comments

[fishlifter]

Small detail but Peter's birth year should be 1943 (it is now correct on File 770). -- Mark

[johnny9fingers]

Whereabouts are you from? I have close rellies in Armagh, Dublin, and Sligo. (They are McCabes, Shorts, Quins, and Lennons, all of whom are related to each other and coming originally from Cross or Tier, or nearby in Armagh.

[anef]

Thank you for the article about NI - there was clearly a lot more going on than in the news reports, so it's good to understand the political context. Though rather depressing.