User:Gerry Lynch
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I'm Gerry Lynch. I was born on 28 July 1977 in Belfast, Northern Ireland and brought up there, eventually studying Politics at the Queen's University of Belfast (after school at St. Malachy's College). I graduated in 2000 and upped sticks for London. I live in the well-heeled and multi-cultural mélange of Bayswater.
I am not a lawyer.
Please send me a message on my User talk page in English, auf Deutsch ya da Türkçede.
Wiki contributions focus on the politics of Northern Ireland and its recent history, politics of Turkey and politics of Germany, although I may occasionally throw in the odd article on obscure contemporary classical composers or Anglicanism.
What's with Turkey? I've been on holiday there a number of times, gone to night classes and learned passable Turkish, really enjoy the country, thought I could use it to do something useful on Wikipedia.
The article I started on the galactic halo made it to the front page on August 3, 2004 - - see the record in the archive (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:Did_you_know&oldid=4985976).
I also contribute occasionally to German Wikipedia (http://de.wikipedia.org) and Turkish Wikipedia (http://tr.wikipedia.org).
I like music. A lot. Music that leavens life includes: John Adams | Bela Bartok | Ludwig van Beethoven | Benjamin Britten | Maurice Duruflé | Gabriel Fauré | Gustav Holst | Howard Hanson | Zoltan Kodaly | Jean Langlais | György Ligeti | Gustav Mahler | Olivier Messiaen | Dmitri Shostakovich | Jean Sibelius | Richard Strauss | Igor Stravinsky | Ralph Vaughan-Williams | Richard Wagner | Takashi Yoshimatsu ----- Nat King Cole | Jimi Hendrix | Kraftwerk | Bob Marley | Pink Floyd | The Cure | The Pixies | The Smiths | The Stone Roses ----- Edip Akbayram | Sezen Aksu | Zülfü Livaneli | Tarkan
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Articles I've worked on in some significant way:
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Northern Ireland Politics and Culture
- Northern Ireland - quite a brutal rewrite of the politics bit!
- History of Northern Ireland - wrote a lot of this before it migrated from the main article
- Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- 1981 Irish Hunger Strike - began this one
- David Ford - expanded from stub
- Holy Cross dispute - began this one
- Peter Robinson - expanded from stub
- Nigel Dodds - expanded from stub
- Bobby Sands
- armalite and the ballot box - expanded from stub
- Belfast - including much of the history section
- Derry
- North Down
- Paul Berry - began this one
- North Belfast (UK Parliament constituency)
- South Belfast (UK Parliament constituency)
- East Belfast (UK Parliament constituency)
- West Belfast (UK Parliament constituency)
- Kathy Stanton - began this one
German Politics
- Feleknas Uca - began this one
Turkish Politics and Culture
- Republican People's Party (Turkey) - expanded from stub
- Justice and Development Party (Turkey) - expanded from stub
- Felicity Party (Turkey) - began this one
- Alevi
- Kurds
- Islamism
- Diyarbakir - expanded from stub
- Denizli - edited
- Sezen Aksu - began this one
- Abdullah Gül
Anglicanism
- Church of Ireland
- Affirming Catholicism - began this one
- Forward in Faith - began this one
Classical Music
- Takashi Yoshimatsu - began this one
- Jean Langlais - began this one
- Valery Gergiev - began this one
- Akira Ikufube - began this one
- Percy Grainger - considerably expanded
European Union law and politics
- gold-plating - began this one
- host state regulation - began this one
- home state regulation - began this one
- maximum harmonisation - began this one
- minimum harmonisation - began this one
Astronomy
- galactic halo - started this one and it made it to 'Did You Know?' on the front page!
- Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy - expanded
- Canis Minor Dwarf Galaxy - began this one
Unclassifiable
- Roads in Ireland - added Northern Ireland trunk roads
- Jet2.com - began this one
- George Smiley - expanded from stub
- Green Party - tried to make less obviously from a Green POV
- Jeremy Clarkson - added info on degree controversy
- Margaret Hodge - added info on Nanny State speech
- Nanny state
More done, more to do
- Deep England - great article, needs a few minor corrections
- Roads in Ireland - Secondary N roads in the South
- City of Westminster
- Bayswater
- Zülfü Livaneli
- Mark Durkan
- Martin McGuinness
- Bairbre de Brún
- John Alderdice
- Jeffrey Donaldson
- True Path Party (Turkey)
- Nationalist Action Party (Turkey)
- Social Democratic People's Party (Turkey)
- Abdullah Öcalan
- Zaza
- Belfast - this could be a lot better
- 28 Days Later - ends halfway through the film
- Tansu Çiller
- George Smiley - need to add section on symbolism
- Robert Jastrow - just don't ask
- Ruth Ellis
- John Federick Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden
- Herbert Hensley Henson