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Fox News, The Theocratic Broadcaster
As a fighter for the indigenous language and culture of the island-nation of Ireland I sometimes have mixed feelings aboutContinue Reading
Ireland’s 800 Year Culture War
Recently a trilingual Danish acquaintance of mine, somewhat familiar with Ireland, asked me why is it that most of theContinue Reading
Oireachtas Reform – Gilding A Poisoned Lilly
Some uncomfortable reading in the New York Times newspaper for Ireland’s Neo-Ascendancy elites as the author Tana French reveals theContinue Reading
The Would-Be Revolution Devours Its Children
As regular readers know I’m no fan of Ireland’s anti-republican Far Left parties, in particular the Socialist Party and theContinue Reading
Big Boost For Online Scottish Language Resource
Some great news for the ongoing development and growth of the Scottish language. The government of Scotland has announced aContinue Reading
Racist Fun With The Journal.ie
YAY! The Daily Edge, part of the “Irish” news and current affairs website TheJournal.ie, has a “humorous” article today onContinue Reading
Second-Class Irish
A Word From Japan, the occasional blog of an Irishman who was formerly resident in the Land of the RisingContinue Reading
The House Negro And The Big House Paddy
Some political activists from the African-American community in the United States have a pejorative term for a black person believedContinue Reading
Catalonia, Scotland And Québec
Couple of articles looking at the faltering fortunes of the sovereignty movements in Scotland and Québec when compared to theContinue Reading
O Brother, Sounds Familiar
The Coen brothers are geniuses and “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” is one of their greatest movies with fantastic performancesContinue Reading
Et Tu, Brute?
Interesting to see that we are not the only ones having trouble with our Senate. From the National Post inContinue Reading
Pat Rabbitte Meets Seán And Síle Citizen – Again
Pat Rabbitte, rottweiler of the Labour politburo, seems to have a habit of coming a cropper in hotel bars and publicContinue Reading
Irish TV? We Should Be So Lucky!
So, essentially a big fuck you to the Irish-speaking citizens and communities of Ireland from former Trotskyite rebel-without-a-cause Pat Rabbitte,Continue Reading
Lashún Gatna “Beautiful Child”
Lashún Gatna or “Beautiful Child”, a song in the traditional Irish Traveller style written and sung by Jack Delaney. TheContinue Reading
Revival Of A Native American Tongue
After some bad-news stories I thought you might like a break with a good-news one from Cotton Boll Conspiracy: “TheContinue Reading
Lord Laird Under The Microscope
That dubious champion of the Irish-Scots dialect, Lord Laird, is placed under the spotlight by Niall Meehan over on SpinwatchContinue Reading
Vasili Blokhin, The Butcher Of Katyn
A fascinating and quite disturbing post by the Cotton Boll Conspiracy on the infamous “Soviet Butcher” Vasili Blokhin. chief executioner ofContinue Reading
Settler Culture
Some more displays of the British Unionist culture of the British Unionist minority in Ireland. Unrepresentative of the mainly Scots-IrishContinue Reading
David Norris, A Southern Unionist?
In 2011 Senator David Norris ran for the presidency of Ireland in a campaign beset by controversy about his somewhatContinue Reading
Fianna Fáil And The Brown Shirts
The Belfast cumann of Fianna Fáil wishes the Orange Order a happy July 12th (with a lovely photo of uniformedContinue Reading
The British Culture Of Ireland’s British Minority
July the 12th and the British culture of the British Unionist minority in Ireland at its worse: racist, sectarian, xenophobic,Continue Reading
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