by Colman Cassidy The Irish Times (1) Frank Dunlop 19 April 2000 Mr Frank Dunlop asked for a temporary adjournment yesterday when he became ill while giving his dramatic evidence in which he detailed the payments he made to Dublin County Councillors. However, he was unable to return to the witness stand and the tribunal…
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By Colman Cassidy ABSTRACT In this paper, I turn the question around to focus, primarily, on whether ethnicity is a fiction with particular reference to Brittany. The outcome of that debate is, prima facie, a major determinant of whether there is a ‘people’. The essay is in three parts. The first gives the background to…
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By Colman Cassidy Introduction Semiotics is the construction of worlds of meaning. It sees communication as the production and exchange of meanings: how messages and texts interact with people to produce meanings. The message, then, is a construction of signs, which through interaction with the receivers, produce meaning. 1)Fiske, John, Introduction to Communication Studies. London:…
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Colman Cassidy hit the Soviet Union in spots on a whistle-stop tour, a few weeks after the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine, for the Sunday Press. From Moscow to Alma Ata everything appeared ‘normal’, from rock concerts to Parsi temples… “Excuse me, please, I must talk to you about something that is to me, very important.”…
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By Colman Cassidy Abstract This paper attempts to address whether it is possible to design a regime in which ‘political entrepreneurs’ will not exploit the clients they purport to serve. For convenience, it is broken into six parts. Part I discusses the gap in political science literature as regards political entrepreneurship relative to other areas…
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