Ryan Murdock
Editor-at-Large at Outpost Magazine
Columnist at Freelance
Author of A Sunny Place for Shady People & Vagabond Dreams. Host of Personal Landscapes pod. Editor-at-Large (Europe) for Canada's Outpost magazine. RGS Fellow.
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3 weeks ago |
ryanmurdock.com | Ryan Murdock
Clair Wills was in her twenties when she learned she had a cousin she’d never met. It wasn’t as though their families drifted apart. She’d never been told of this person’s existence. It was shrouded in shame and secrecy, and she wanted to understand why. She pieced the story together from forgotten anecdotes, dim memories and institutional archives spanning four generations of her own family, and the history of Ireland from the 1890s to the 1980s.
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1 month ago |
ryanmurdock.com | Ryan Murdock
What would you do if someone you knew your entire life — your mother — suddenly revealed that she’d been a spy? Deborah Lawrenson turned her story into a novel. The tangled web of espionage she weaves in The Secretary is fiction, but the background to the story is authentic, drawn in part from a seemingly innocent diary her mother wrote in 1958 while working at the British Embassy in Moscow. It’s an exciting high stakes thriller with insightful social commentary and a vivid sense of place.
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1 month ago |
theshiftnews.com | Kevin Cassar |Ryan Murdock
Keith Pace, Maria and Desideria Grixti pleaded guilty to having insulted and threatened physical violence against three ONE journalists. They admitted to breaching public order and swearing in public after the entire country watched aghast as the three of them brazenly threatened reporters with violence using vulgar and offensive language.
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1 month ago |
theshiftnews.com | Ryan Murdock
Alex Cutajar was given another handpicked government job in 2024, serving as an advisor to the CEO of the Occupational Health and Safety Authority (OHSA) to manage a national campaign on health and safety in construction sites. According to his contract, seen by The Shift, Cutajar was paid thousands for the direct order. It is not known whether the campaign was eventually implemented. No competitive tender was issued for the job.
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1 month ago |
theshiftnews.com | Ryan Murdock
Prime Minister Robert Abela’s attack on The Shift has been registered as a threat to press freedom by European portal Mapping Media Freedom. The European platform tracks threats to journalists as well as violations and limitations imposed on media organizations and individuals.
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Clair Wills joined me on Personal Landscapes podcast to talk about Ireland’s mother and baby homes, the stigma of illegitimacy, and how secrecy can shape a family and a society. Listen on iTunes, Spotify, etc https://t.co/vw0ANfeqIn
Clair Wills on Ireland’s missing persons https://t.co/2MmAvG19vT
Deborah Lawrenson on her mother the spy https://t.co/tIiUGtzlgk
