Tom Carew
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Available for media appearances, articles, commissions, panels, talks. Irish Blogger, Writer, Philosopher & Independent Researcher/Analyst/Commentator |
| Location | Dublin, Anglo-spheric NE Atlantic; Archipelago of Pretannic Peoples, Ireland |
| Introduction | Defender of UNIVERSAL Freedom+Democracy+Ethics. Opposed global+domestic terror. IN: SPME=Scholars for Peace in ME,TUFI=Trade Union Friends of Israel.TULIP=Trade Unionists Linking Israel & Palestine. EX-Chair Irl-Israel Friendship League. EX: Treas/Sec Peace Train Org, STOP 96-Solidarity to Organise Peace. AGM Recording Sec Journey of Reconciliation Trust/Mesen (Messines) Cte, Irish Solidarnosc.Anti-Apartheid Movt, Divorce Action Gp, Anti-Amendment Campaign -abortion 1982. Trade Un Natl Pres-PSEU, F/T Sec Post Office TU Gp, Dublin Council of TUs Ex,Chair Tallaght TU Unemployed Ctr Dublin, TU CCN/Congress Centres Network, Delegate - Community/Vol Pillar =Natl Social Partnership of Govt Business Farmers Unions,EX-Director, Dublin Employment Pact, S Dublin Co Enterprise Brd, Tallaght Partnership, EX-member, S Dublin Co Council [a] Transport Strategic Policy Cte, [b] Co Development Board, Chair: BALDONNEL Mil AFB Task Force - S Dublin Co Dev Board,Grad: Natl Univ of Irl {Philosophy, Classics}, EX, Intl VP Union of Students in Irl, Ir Council for Overseas Students, Intl Cte - Natl Youth Council, Delegate to Council of Eur Natl Youth Ctes, |
| Interests | Passionate, Axio-Logo-Teleo-Zetetic explorer, people, places, periods, ideas, Irish, European, Israeli, ME,Military, History, Intl Politics, Philosophy, HDCA - Human Development & Capability Association, AWID - Association for Womens Rights In Development, Poetry, Travel, Aviation, Space, Pro-Tour Cycling, FC Barcelona, Kilkenny Hurling, Manchester Utd, Chess, Dogs, Red Wine, Good food, Discovery & History Channels,Enneagram Type 8 -The Challenger, INTP/ENTJ Myers-Briggs Type,MEMBER, http://www.librarything.com/profile/tmcarew, LinkedIn, FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE.com,HEROES: Druze IDF & Beduin volunteers - Jordan IDF & Egypt, Mossad, Shin Beth, FDNY, NYPD, CIA, SM DAN DALY NY USMC 2nd Congressional Medal of Honor & 6/1918 Navy Cross,MORDECHAI ANIELEWICZ Warsaw Ghetto Revolt 4/1943,Martin Luther King,MAYADA -Iraqi woman tortured by Saddam's evil regime, Dr. WAFA SULTAN, AYAAN HIRSI ALI, IRSHAD MANJI, Antartic Explorers, Tom Crean, Ernst Shackleton,Col Jas FITZMAURICE 4/1928 E-W Atlantic Irish aviation pioneer, Willy Brandt, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Alexander Dubcek, Jean Moulin,HANNAH SENESH born Budapest 1921 poet diarist playwright Haganah Jewish Resistance fighter & parachutist murdered by Nazis Budapest Nov 8 1944, |
| Favorite movies | The Third Man 1947, The Big Lift 1950 -1948 Berlin Blockade,The Quiet Man, Casablanca, Sgt York 1941, Escape from Sobibor 1987, La Dolce Vita, Lawrence of Arabia 1962, Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo, Zorba the Greek, Z 1969 Costas Gavras 5/1963 pol murder Greek MP Dr. Grigoris Lambrakis, Schindler's List, Longest Day, The Sullivans -5 USN Bros WW II, A Bridge Too Far, Bridge on the River Kwai, ODESSA File -1974,Saving Pvt Ryan, The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski, Exodus, 21 Hours at Munich 1976, Raid on Entebbe 1977 Irvin Kershner, Une Affaire de Femmes 1988 Claude Chabrol Isabelle Huppert re Marie-Louise Giraud=Cherbourg laundress guillotined La Roquette Prison Paris Petain fascists Jul 30 1943 induced 27 mis-carriages when 1.7m French were POWs [0.8m married] & 0.6m were Nazi slave laborers Contraception was not legalised until 1967 Nazi-collaborator Petain guillotined 3 women but last previous case was 1887, Trzy Kolory/Three Colors -Blue 1993 White+Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski, Juliette Binoche, Ladder 49, Dr. Strangelove, Blazing Saddles, MASH, When Harry Met Sally, A Fish called Wanda, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Name of the Rose, Chocolat, Il Postino, Amelie, A Love Denied -1999 6-month boycott of 2 Protestant shops Fethard-on-Sea SW Co Wexford when Prot mother of 2 girls Sheila Cooney, refused to educate them as RC & returned at Easter 1958, The Commitments -Roddy Doyle, Shadowlands -C. S. Lewis, March of the Penguins, United 93, Down and Out in Beverly Hills -Bette Midler, Zwartboek/Black Book -2006 Paul Verhoeven -Jewish singer Rachel Steinn & Dutch Resistance, Flags of our Fathers -Iwo Jima, Die Grosse Stille/Into Great Silence -2005 Philip Groning silent documentary Grande Charteuse meet thrice a day for prayer,Carthusian Monks alpine valley HQ Isere Dept E France founded 1084 by Bruno 370 in 19 monasteries, 300 -Leonidas & Queen Gorgo v Persian aggressor Xerxes & Ephialtes @Thermopylae 480 BCE, |
| Favorite music | Woody Guthrie, Ewan Mac Coll, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Rory Gallagher, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, U2, Van Morrison, Thin Lizzie, Louis Armstrong, Stanley Turpentine, Big Joe Turner,Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, John Lee Hooker, Leadbelly, Fats Waller, Billie Holliday, Count Basie,Sidney Bechet, Benny Goodman, Nat King Cole, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Elkie Brooks, Coldplay, Mikis Theodorakis, Nikos & Yiannis Xylouris, Runrig, Capercaille, Karen Matheson, Skipinnish, Dan Ar Braz, Louis Capart,Alan Stivell, Bagad Kemper, Gilles Servat, Skolvan, Chieftains, Planxty, Stockton's Wing, De Danann, Davy Spillane, Clannad, Maire Brennan, Altan, Bagatelle, Hothouse Flowers, Paul Brady, Luke Kelly, Dubliners, Shani, Nazanin, Nadia Ali, Susan Bluechild. |
| Favorite books | 3,400 catalogued www.librarything.com/profile/tmcarew, Homer, Euripides, Thucydides, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Plato, Mans Search for Meaning -Viktor Frankl, Fear of Freedom -Eric Fromm, Between Man & Man + I & Thou -Martin Buber, Gabriel Marcel-Being & Having, Sam Keen-Hymns to an Unknown God & Beginnings & Apology for Wonder, Matthew Fox, Thomas Merton, Tony de Mello, John Main, William Johnston, Teilhard de Chardin, Simone Weil, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Etty Hillesum -An Interrupted Life & Letters from Westerbork [1996], Hans Kung, Insight-Bernard J.F. Lonergan, The Rebel-Albert Camus, Open Society-Karl R. Popper, Danube -Claude Magris, Black Sea-Neal Acherson, The Siege-Conor Cruise O'Brien, Robert Capa, Amos Oz, Orhan Pamuk-Istanbul, Iris Murdoch, Umberto Eco, Sam Beckett, Nikos Kazantzakis -Report to Greco, Paul Tillich-The Courage To Be, Teilhard de Chardin, Richard Kearney, Chaim Herzog-Living History, Fitz-Teddy Fennelly, Catch 22-Joseph Heller, Mayada, Iris Origo, Irvin D. Yalom -Existential Psychotherapy, Getting to Yes, Negotiating Without Giving In=Fisher+Ury+Patton, Eastern Approaches - BG Fitzroy MacClean, Why Truth Matters -Benson & Stangroom, POEMS, T.S. Eliot, Robert Burns, John Hewitt, Louis Mac Neice, Richard Murphy, Francis Ledwidge, Michael Longley, G.A. Studdert-Kennedy, Bertolt Brecht, |