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Last Updated: Sunday, 6 June, 2004, 22:01 GMT 23:01 UK
Malachi O'Doherty on Phrases

In a new two part series for the Sunday Supplement in June 2004, the Belfast-based political commentator Malachi O'Doherty gives us a highly personal and critical look at the importance of language to the way in which Northern Irish politics has been conducted over recent turbulent decades.

Borrowing from a letter to Winston Churchill from the British ambassador in Ireland, he tells us that Phrases Make History Here.

Click here to listen to part one



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