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Nov 26, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Rashid I. Khalidi |Mark O’connell
The historian Rashid Khalidi has, for many years, been a preeminent Arab-American intellectual and among the most vocal critics of America’s involvement in the conflict between Israel and Palestine. In the aftermath of the armed incursion by Hamas and other militant groups on Israeli territory on October 7 last year, and of the ongoing Israeli military campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon that followed, Khalidi and his work have only increased in relevance.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Mark O’connell |Mark O'Connell
For 10 months, between September 2021 and June 2022, the French writer Emmanuel Carrère went every day to the Palais de Justice in Paris. He was there to attend the trial of a group of men accused of involvement in the terrorist attacks carried out in that city in November 2015, in which Islamic State militants massacred 130 people and injured hundreds more.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
markoconnell.co.uk | Mark O’connell
‘As the countdown begins for the new millennium there is still one number you can always count on…’A Bond teaser poster is a special thing. It is feverishly awaited by fans and moviegoers alike and still makes this bullet catcher’s heart skip a beat when he first sees a new one resplendent in a cinema lobby. Twenty-five years ago this month, the millennial bullet The World is Not Enough made its debut across the world in November 1999.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Mark O’connell |Mark O'Connell
As the Long Read turns 10 we are raiding the archives to bring you a favourite piece from each year since 2014, with new introductions from the authors. This week from 2018: How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific. By Mark O’Connell
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
markoconnell.co.uk | Mark O’connell
From the opening shot of the opening Bond movie Dr. No (1962) where three “blind” assassins trundle on a mission of murder across traffic before cowering in a private members club car park, James Bond’s onscreen romance with automobiles was in sixth gear. Instantly part of the machismo, panache and kinetic pace of 007, these various high-end automobiles, motorcycles, fold-up planes and moon buggies are now Bond’s necessary co-stars, sidekicks and possibly even love interest.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
markoconnell.co.uk | Mark O’connell
On the sixtieth anniversary of Goldfinger – and at the very moment the film first premiered in London on September 17th 1964 – EON Productions and Burlington Arcade held a grand celebration to mark the launch of The 007, Goldfinger and all things Bond. With the Piccadilly retail haven already a proven great destination for Bond celebrations and 007-skewed champagne respites, it makes total sense that both our man James and the Burlington Beadles should be once again sharing house-space.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
markoconnell.co.uk | Mark O’connell
“This is gold, Mr. Bond. All my life I’ve been in love with its colour… its’ brilliance, its’ divine heaviness.”Goldfinger / 1964September 2024 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the film that arguably changed not just Bond. Director Guy Hamilton’s 007 debut Goldfinger also changed action cinema. Almost singlehandedly, Goldfinger and 1964 lent a new gait, poise and pace to adventure cinema.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
echolive.ie | Mark O’connell
Joy for Leeside in the Cork Women’s Senior Kevin Barry Cup final on Saturday afternoon in St Colman's Park. This was a superb final between two sides that played some fantastic football, but Leeside edged this encounter, and they now go into Wednesday’s final league game against Passage hoping to secure the double. Leeside had some wonderful performances all over the pitch with Lidia Pasiecznik and Ava Lotty superb at the back.
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
msn.com | Mark O’connell
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Mark O’connell |Mark O'Connell
Born in Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1979, author and journalist Mark O’Connell studied English at Trinity College Dublin, where he completed a PhD on John Banville. His first nonfiction book, , a study of transhumanism, won the 2018 Wellcome prize and the 2019 Rooney prize. Notes from an Apocalypse, exploring the end of civilisation, was published in April 2020.
