Omagh Chess Darkman

Narrated portrait of sectarian-woe in modern Europe featuring ideations of 'chess-driven' inter-religious drawings.

An homage to peace-visions in the modern UK, featuring the idyllic if 'troubled' area of Omagh (Northern Ireland), where politics meets dancing! 

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I moved to Omagh, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) from Algeria to teach a progressive/inventive chess-course to the predominantly Irish-Catholic community (high-school) students in an otherwise British-Protestant population dominant country of Northern Ireland. I've family relations ties to the Algerian/Indian revolutionary movements against British/French rule and became fascinated by modern social-media commentary regarding 'folk' politics in modern Europe (Facebook-IQ!).

In particular, two works by Frantz Fanon and Eamon De Valera moved me to the sectarian woes in Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), a modern 'stamp' of 'mismanaged' inter-religious coexistence and decided to become a chess-teacher in Omagh where I'd been invited to set-up the chess-program for the Irish-Catholic high-school students alongside an adjunct media-net program for chess-education homeschooling spanning all throughout Northern Ireland, while motivating the young students to learn more about the 'roots' of coexistence worry.

STUDENT: The 'Professor' as we refer to him is quite remarkable and has made the 'Chess-Club' IQ fun along with net-school.

We've used special computer-chess program of vital coloring and home user-friendly play to produce tourneys among students and our Omagh home-base program ('Chess-Club') is quite the rave and has built upon the already-popular Omagh high-school bonded chess club and is a homeschooling venture for modern social-media and encourages video-game stylized education in chess (a piece-position movement strategy game involving offense-defense balances) while instructing 'cool' life-lessons on the applied lessons of stalemate-chess or tie/draw/no-win decision oriented competition temperance for peace-treaty intelligence!

Now, we've all read or seen the stories on newspapers/TV about the sectarian 'troubles' in Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) between the Irish-Catholic minorities and British-Protestant majority population since the original partition of mainland (Catholic) Ireland in the early 20th-Century following the declaration of the pronounced Irish Free State.

The ongoing 'troubles' in Omagh and other places/counties in Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) reflect in part the frustrations of unemployment/poverty faced by the Catholic-minorities seeking greater representation by the UK-Parliament through the negotiation arm of the 'Irish Republican Army' (IRA) known as Sinn Fein which works to declare cease-fires between guerrillas and British police/military and end the violence corroding modern-era 'promises' of commerce-bridges to inter-religious coexisence.

When one of my Catholic students was murdered for his leadership-role in the Omagh Chess-Club, I took up arms/fury and joined the new world underground group known loosely as the 'Foreign Irish Republican Army' (F-IRA) which is a new 'addendum' or spin-off of the Real Irish Republican Army. The F-IRA members, which recruit people from around Europe who're not necessarily Irish, are committed to radical forms of open journalism promotion for the forwarding of progressive education initiatives like chess-homeschooling in troubled Northern Ireland (UK) and sometimes use subversive techniques to create more 'speech-space' for community inter-religious coexistence ventures!

I confess that half of all this country-inspiration was garnered from my readings of Fanon and De Valera regarding the 'economics' behind street-intuitions of lands/areas 'troubled' by inter-religious coexistence 'consciousness' favoring more literacy/education for the 'roots' of governance frailty.

BELFAST-POST: This new chess-stalemate 'themed' NI/UK education initiative, with F-IRA 'tentacles' created journalism-photo!

I live out of a hotel-room in Omagh with my princely inherited fortune(s) and consider most of this work, half school-house and half cyber-terminal, reflective of the commitment to using liberal ideations of social mobilization to create media-era dialogue surrounding inter-religious coexistence art(s).

STUDENT: The 'Professor' lives in a very nice (if modest!) hotel-room right here in Omagh; we feel like he's a 'family' teacher!

The quality of antiterrorism rhetoric and pro-pluralism governance ideations in modern Europe 'grow' out of the bridges/buttresses that erect the sturdiness for pedestrians seeking to use commerce imagination to make inter-religious coexistence feel much more sane, so that the idea of 'aliens' is replaced with the 'art(s)' of history's Earth-d.

"The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process" (James T. Walsh).

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)