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Good Book
I found the book to be an insightful look into Italian Colonialism in Eritrea. However Tekeste does little if any effort to hide his bias against Eritrean Independence, and Nationalism. If choosing this book keep in mind to read just the facts and leave his many opinions alone.

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This digital document is an article from APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East, published by Pam Stein/Input Solutions on April 17, 2000. The length of the article is 856 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: EAST AFRICA - Opposition To Middle East Peace Ending - Part 10.(East African Arab states' policies)(Brief Article)
Publication: APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East (Newsletter)
Date: April 17, 2000
Publisher: Pam Stein/Input Solutions
Volume: 39Issue: 4Page: NA

Article Type: Brief Article

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Pagan Dances of Caherbarnagh reveals the many facets ofthe Irish soul and of the Irish American immigrant’s unbreakableties to a faraway homeland.It is a beautiful and haunting collectionabout families lost between continents and time. This bittersweet butamusing book will affect the Irish in you, in all of us. ... Read more

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memories of Ireland
PAGAN DANCES OF CAHERBARNAGH is a collection of stories, spun from the fabric of a young girl's memories of her musician father, her homemaker mother, their farm, her sisters & brothers, & the passion of dancing that overtook the young men & women around her village, before rock & roll rumbled over the hills.

It is also an enchanting collection of memories of Irish immigrants, past & present, now settled in New York & Seattle & their forays back to The Old Country.

PAGAN DANCES OF CAHERBARNAGH is a breath of fresh Irish air, with glimpses of a time long gone; about people out of their element, filled with nostalgia for what once was & is now, only memory.

A Surprisingly Rich Journey
Gently surprised by the beauty and eloquence of prose, Bridget O'Mahony's Pagan Dances of Caherbarnagh takes the reader through the empty loneliness of the mournful Irish émigré.
Essentially this poignant tail is about emigration, survival in a foreign land and acceptance of a time lost. It is much more than it seems at first glance.

Pagan Dances is not technically a novel, but rather a story of reminiscences through the rendering of sad, touching letters from home and a series of short stories. It is heavy with typical Irish melancholy.

This is invaluable storytelling which easily holds the readers attention. Alternating between stories filled with eccentric characters that make up the Irish universe and letters from a heartbroken mother in Ireland to her son now living in Seattle, this book takes you on a wistful Irish journey.

In particular I enjoyed the letters from family members in Ireland. They revealed more about the heartache of broken families forced into exile due to the economic circumstances before the recent Celtic Tiger economy.

Years of isolation from family and friends, the familiarity of the homeland and the fast pace of their contemporary lives underscores the main character of Christie Horan, who ends up being too busy to return home to attend his mother's funeral.
One good example of fear within Irish society is one man's ostracization as he contemplates selling his farm. The anger projected at him is easily felt emanating from the pages.

One of my fondest and most lasting memories of Ireland is the prolific fuchsia shrubs seemingly everywhere in Ireland. O'Mahony's description of the red and purple flowers growing wild struck a sensitive chord in me.

Of course there are references to set dancing and music throughout this tome but it is the lasting quality of melancholic longing which stretches its long, grasping tentacles around your heart that sets the mood, It does not make a vain attempt at pretending to be a literary masterpiece. It is just a really good read.

A moving, fiery tale
Pagan Dances Of Caherbarnagh is a splendidly written novel revealing the soul of Ireland and the breath of America. Written with resounding emotion, author Bridget O'Mahony's covers the heart-wrenching loss of leaving one's country, family, and identity for a glittering future hope in a far-off land. A moving, fiery tale of drive, determination, and the uplifting vigor of the spirit, Bridget O'Mahony's is highly recommended reading from first page to last!. ... Read more

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This insightful study examines the role of U.S. foreign policy in the Horn of Africa during and after the Cold War era and the extent to which American influence aided or impeded the emergence of political democracy and the promotion of economic development within the region. ... Read more

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For the first time in their history, Eritreans were engaged, as a sovereign people, in the making of the basic document by which they would be governed. Regarded by Eritreans as the culmination of their legitimate struggle for national self determination, the Constitution became an integral part of this continuous and crucial struggle.

Written by a scholar and practitioner who led the process of constitution drafting in the newly independent Eritrea from 1994 to 1997, this book analyzes the process from beginning to end, recording in concise summaries the intensive public debates held in village and town meetings during that three-year period.

In his book, Bereket Habte Selassie identifies the constitution as a bulwark of a democratic system of government and defines a good constitution as one tested by the nature and degree of public participation in its making, hence his careful attention to the drafting process. In addition to describing the process of constitution making, he also uses chapter-to-chapter text analysis and commentaries to engage the reader in important discussions on the Eritrean constitution itself. ... Read more

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An Important Story
The Eritrean struggle for independence and justice is an inspiring one, oddly (or maybe not so oddly) ignored by the West and even the rest of Africa. The ultimately successful conflict against not just Ethiopian imperialism but centuries-old traditions, prejudices and abuse covers the entire panoply of religious, political and social issues. This book necessarilly deals with the efforts to emancipate women who fought side-by-side with men for 30 years. The progressive attitude taken by the EPLF in this regard is indeed extraordinary, and the fact that this tiny nation, awash in a sea of semi-feudalism dating back hundreds of years, would take on such deeply ingrained biases in the first place is a testament to their vision for a post-victory Eritrea. But the question remainsas to why this country is not used as a model for what the rest of Africa could be, and sadly, it has occurred to me that it's in the West's best interest to keep Africans dependent on foreign largesse. This in no way absolves Africans from their own manifest failures, nor should we ignore Eritrea's at-times all-too-American predeliction for violence and war as a resolution to its problems.
Still, this book, with its interviews and description of pre-victory Eritrean attitudes towards women (the book was written in 1990, a year before the Mengistu regime's collapse)is a good addition to anyone's collection of books on Third World revolutionary movements.

a history one would not find of many wars
i have read this book recently on a trip to Eritrea. it gives a prespective on the conflict with Ethiopia which is egnored by most historians in their sweeping tales of battles and generals. the eritrean freedom fighters were 30% of the troops on the eritrean side and this is the story of the why, were and hows of this. plus it has many of the goverment charters in dealing with the gender issues of this young country. a must for people interested in the role of women in combat. ... Read more