The Orange Order – Bringing Fear And Intimidation To A Community Near You
To their members and supporters (not to mention sympathisers) the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland is a purely “cultural organisation”Continue Reading
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Kill All Taigs – Fuck All Papists – The Tory Party Plays The Orange Card In Scotland
Ever heard of Tory Hoose? No? Well you’re about to: “Tory Hoose is a new chapter in progressive thinking andContinue Reading
Fine Gael Blues: Dr. James Reilly And Cllr Anne Devitt
Those investigators of all that is grubby in Irish politics over at Broadsheet.ie reveal some interesting facts about the relationshipContinue Reading
Ardoyne Residents Respond To Orange Order Intimidation
In response to the annual violence sparked by a handful of intimidating marches through Irish communities in the British Occupied North of Ireland by the militant British nationalist andContinue Reading
From The Five Demands – Tensions In Ardoyne
BREAKING NEWS. RIOT IN CORSO AD ARDOYNE More here…
Speak Irish? Get To The Back Of The Line!
The total percentage cost from its budget for all of the Irish language services provided by just one government department in Ireland,Continue Reading
In The Shadow Of The Maple Leaf
In recent years Canada has become something of a prestige go-to-destination in these economically straitened times for many people inContinue Reading
Celebrating British War Crimes In Ireland – The Orange Kulturfest
In light of the attempts by the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland and other British Protestant fundamentalist organisations in theContinue Reading
No Democracy, Now!
Right-wing Canadian journalist Andrew Coyne expresses a view in the National Post on Québec independence that I suspect many CanadiansContinue Reading
Cork City Council Supports Same-Sex Marriage
Talking of appealing to the liberal centre-right and left, some more Varadkar-related news on the back of the passing byContinue Reading
An Eye To the Future?
According to the Oirish Independent Fine Gael golden boy Leo Varadkar is off to improve his Irish language abilities in theContinue Reading
Haigh!
Well, to paraphrase someone else, I haven’t gone away y’know 😉 A bout of illness, a bit of R’n’R, andContinue Reading
The Irish Unarmed Struggle
The Journal carries an article on the Irish language from Ian Mac Eochagáin, a professional Russian-English translator. Or more accurately itContinue Reading
Gaeltacht Bill 2012 – Another View
Donncha Ó hÉallaithe, Irish language and community researcher and writer, examines the new Gaeltacht Bill 2012 in the Irish TimesContinue Reading
Raidió Rí-Rá
Some good news from the Irish language radio station Raidió Rí-Rá, featured in an article over on Radio World: “Irish-languageContinue Reading
Better Apart
Quick post on two articles. One is an interview in the British left-wing magazine Red Pepper with Plaid Cymru’s progressiveContinue Reading
A Win For Seán And Síle Citizen
Wow! Logic and reason has been displayed by the Irish civil service in relation to the Irish speaking citizenry of the state. Or did the barrage of national andContinue Reading
Bravetongue
Two stories highlighting good news for our fellow Gaels in Scotland as the declining population of Scottish speakers begins toContinue Reading
Britain – The Enemy Combatant
Sinn Féin is continuing to press home its advantage following the visit by Britain’s head of state to Ireland to attend a Co-Operate IrelandContinue Reading
Turning A Mass Grave Into A Food Court – The Immorality Of Modern Ireland
Talking of queens let us remember the Famine Queen herself and this story featured by the excellent Irish History Podcast. The headline saysContinue Reading
The White Glove Of Britain Shakes The Red Hand Of Ulster
Well an interesting day, and the deed is done, but the fallout from related events continues following on from yesterday’s peaceful protest on the Black Mountain by RepublicansContinue Reading
Men Of Violence?
In relation to my earlier post about the demonstration on Black Mountain overlooking Belfast where Republicans from the 1916 Societies erected a large IrishContinue Reading
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