Castle Catholics And Sham Irish – Journalism In Ireland
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The Election Campaign In Québec – The Expected And Unexpected
Last Wednesday Jean Charest, the head of the beleaguered Liberal Party government in Québec, called early provincial elections for September 4th amid a seriesContinue Reading
Dragging Ireland Back To The Middle Ages
Oh please… Jim Allister, that infamous throwback politician from the British Unionist minority in the north-east of Ireland, is kicking off againContinue Reading
A Double-Win For Wales In The Vale Of Glamorgan
As normal in the first week of August (and Lúghnasa didn’t pass unnoticed, either, despite my crazy work commitments) a big welcome for the returnContinue Reading
The Not So-Friendly World Of Harry Potter
Fascinating article by the Israeli translator Gili Bar-Hillel and her experiences of translating J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books into Hebrew.Continue Reading
The Irish National Invincibles And The Phoenix Park Assassinations
The Irish Story features a fascinating and long overdue reappraisal of the famous Phoenix Park Assassinations, the 1882 killing ofContinue Reading
PQ Back In Power In Québec?
With new elections to the provincial assembly in Québec expected soon the Globe and Mail carries what it claims willContinue Reading
A Long Overdue Statement
Forty years too late for an event that should never have happened in the first place. Whatever the excuses (and there were – and are – plenty)Continue Reading
IRA, CIRA And ÓnaÉ
Following on from my article about the claimed merger of several Republican Resistance groups to form a new Irish RepublicanContinue Reading
Scottish Nationalist And Labour Party Activist?
Now this is interesting. From The Scotsman: “LABOUR chiefs say a rebellion among its grassroots members in favour of independenceContinue Reading
Reading The Irish Revolution
Two lengthy but informative articles for you, both from the Dublin Review of Books (or DRB), examining aspects of theContinue Reading
Why Does Fine Gael And Labour Want Irish-Speakers To Be Second-Class Citizens With Second-Class Rights?
Well as the Fine Gael – Labour coalition government continues to pursue its policy of rolling back a decade ofContinue Reading
Having A Whale Of A Time At The Olympics
Irish Whales and the Olympics Games? A revealing historical curiosity from the Huffington Post that tells us much more aboutContinue Reading
A New IRA?
Well, given the rumours and rumblings, and perhaps not unrelated to the recent shooting of a (former?) prominent member of the 32 County Sovereignty CommitteeContinue Reading
Mary Tamm – The Perfect Companion
Unfortunately I may have got to the age when the authors and musicians, actors and actresses of one’s formative yearsContinue Reading
The Oirish Independent Spins Itself Dizzy
The Oirish Independent presents the perfect example of how to spin a story to match a set political agenda. InContinue Reading
Bigot’s Day Out
There’s a nicely paranoid opinion piece in today’s Oirish Independent newspaper attacking Ireland’s Irish-speaking citizens. Why? For daring to speakContinue Reading
Binn Éadair, Cúige Laighean, Éire, Meitheamh 2012
A few quick snaps from a walk around Binn Éadair…
The English Republic Of Ireland
More news on the dramatic walk-out from Dáil Éireann by Opposition parties in protest at the Fine Oibre coalition’s attemptContinue Reading
Get Up, Stand Up, Stand Up For Your Rights
For once an Sionnach Fionn is speechless. Someone has actually stood up for the civil rights of Ireland’s Irish-speaking communities andContinue Reading
The Final Solution To The Irish Problem
Well it would seem that the anglophone supremacists driving the anti-Irish agenda in Fine Gael and the Labour Party areContinue Reading
Militant Versus Supplicant
WalesOnline reports on a new Welsh civil rights group, Dyfodol i’r Iaith or “A Future for the Language”: “Dyfodol i’rContinue Reading
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