Gráinne Holland – Teanga na nGael
In a shameless rip-off of the Cedar Lounge Revolution here is my own “Something For The Weekend“. Belfast’s Gráinne HollandContinue Reading
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Anglophone Propaganda And The British Press
Well that didn’t take long. Barely a week has passed since the right-wing British news media carried a series ofContinue Reading
British Bombs On Irish Streets
The British claim that the North of Ireland is British. A sovereign and integrated part of the territory of theContinue Reading
In Defence Of Israel
I’ve always admired the state of Israel and the Israeli people as a whole. From an Irish point of viewContinue Reading
Pádraig Mac Piarais – The New Study In Review
I’ve been meaning to write a review of the new biography of Pádraig Mac Piarais, “Patrick Pearse: the making of a revolutionary“ byContinue Reading
A Letter From John Paul Wootton
John Paul Wootton is a twenty year old Irishman who was arrested on the 10th of March 2009 at theContinue Reading
“New” IRA Prisoners End Their Dirty Protest In Maghaberry Prison
It’s been announced that a section of the Irish political prisoners engaged in a “Dirty Protest” in the notorious MaghaberryContinue Reading
Elections In Catalonia
The Guardian newspaper carries another article on the possibility of Catalonian independence as elections loom in the Iberian nation. However,Continue Reading
Some Political Musings
As a Gaelic Republican I suppose my politics lie somewhere on the social-democratic centre-left. Sometimes my opinions veer towards theContinue Reading
The Mystery Of The BiLingo Website
A follow-up on my post yesterday about BiLingo, a website in Wales behind a series of claims alleging that AnglophoneContinue Reading
Character Assassination And The Herald
Without a single shred of evidence that could stand up in a court, apparently based upon nothing but hearsay andContinue Reading
The NDP – A Separatist In Federalist Clothing?
Interesting article in the Toronto Sun on the phenomenon of a party-within-a-party represented by the separatist inclinations of some Québec-basedContinue Reading
The Culture War In Wales Hots Up
The nationalistic press in Britain is currently lathering itself up into paroxysms of anglophone outrage over alleged “discrimination” against English-speaking children attending schoolsContinue Reading
Its The Process, Stupid
Award-winning investigative journalist and writer Paul Larkin is a very busy man indeed. The author of “A Very British Jihad”,Continue Reading
Dot Éire – An Irish Solution To An English Problem
I’ve talked before on An Sionnach Fionn about the need for a dedicated Irish language internet address for Ireland, whatContinue Reading
Britain’s Irish Civil War
In my 2011 review of historian Liz Gillis’ new Irish Civil War study “The Fall of Dublin” from Mercier Press IContinue Reading
Some New Arrivals
In recent months I have been somewhat remiss in posting no new book reviews on An Sionnach Fionn. This isContinue Reading
Irish Political Prisoners And The Revolutionary Dynamic
Well there is no surprise in this tragic news. In fact observers have been predicting something along these lines forContinue Reading
Samhain
Well the sunset in Baile Átha Cliath is less than half-an-hour away and with it comes Samhain or the greatContinue Reading
A Gaelic Storm In Canada
There is something of a minor political row in Canada over the status of the Gaelic language, specifically Scottish butContinue Reading
Folk Memory
Here is an interesting article, on genes and memory, from the New York Times: “I still wonder how I endedContinue Reading
Colm Tóibín – Not In My Name
Over the years I’ve slowly come to dislike Colm Tóibín. He is one of that closed group of Irish writersContinue Reading
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