Howls Of Anglo Anguish As TG4 Wins Rugby Contract?
TG4 has announced an exclusive 3-year deal with the ERC to broadcast highlights of the Heineken and Amlin Challenge Cups. This isContinue Reading
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Irish From Brazil!
Interesting the things one stumbles across on the idirlíon / internet. All I can say is, give this girl a contractContinue Reading
Enda Kenny: Trust Me, I’m A Politician
You gotta love Enda ‘Paddy‘ Kenny. Sure, without him wouldn’t we still be living with a government of corrupt, lying, money-grabbing shysters, out to doContinue Reading
Scotland The Brave – And Free?
A new poll in the Herald Scotland shows increased support for Scottish Independence. According to the newspaper: ‘The number of peopleContinue Reading
New Scottish Language School For Edinburgh?
Welcome news that Dún Éideann / Edinburgh city council are considering a dedicated Scottish language school for the city, as demand for Scottish-mediumContinue Reading
Enda ‘Paddy’ Kenny Strikes Again!
An Taoiseach Enda ‘My Oirish Brings All The Paddies To The Yard‘ Kenny has come up with another golden nuggetContinue Reading
Playing The Red Card – British Unionists, A Free Scotland And The United States
We’ve all heard and read about British Unionists Nationalists playing the Orange Card to protect the ‘Union’ as Ireland reached its penultimate struggleContinue Reading
An Táin – The Graphic Novel
Still widely available is Colmán Ó Raghallaigh’s An Táin, the ground-breaking Irish language graphic novel or Úrscéal Grafacha illustrated byContinue Reading
The TUV Goes Irish – Thanks To Hector O’Hackatdawn!
The website of irredentist British Unionist party the Traditional Unionost Voice (or TUV), was hacked earlier today by IrishContinue Reading
The Irish Republican Army Way – And The Taliban Way
The War Nerd (aka Gary Brecher aka John Dolan) examines the Long War military and political strategies of the (Provisional)Continue Reading
Left Archive: An tÓglach – Offical Organ of the Irish Republican Army, December 1967 (via The Cedar Lounge Revolution)
Historian Brian Hanley looks at the Irish Republican Army in the late 1960s through its internal publication, An tÓglach ‘TheContinue Reading
Dad’s Army Panic Grips The British Left – Thanks To Alex Salmond
One of the more enjoyable aspects of the last few weeks has been watching the defenders of the neighbouring artificialContinue Reading
The Phoenix Rising?
According to a special investigative report in the British newspaper, the Independent on Sunday, the continuing rise of the so-called “Dissident Republican” movements in Ireland,Continue Reading
Ireland’s Anglomedia Establishment – Turning On Its Own?
Odd event of the week: Ireland’s Anglomedia establishment turning on one of its own, as Senator David Norris sees his presidential hopes beginning to frayContinue Reading
TV3 And The Irish Language – Beyond The Pale?
Apparently the independent (British-owned) Irish television broadcaster TV3 is still humming and hawing about continuing the practice of broadcasting theContinue Reading
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It’s Sci-Fi – Irish Sci-Fi!
I’ve written several articles about the long tradition of Irish language authors working in the Science-Fiction, Fantasy and Horror genresContinue Reading
Éamon Gilmore, Lisbon II, And Selective Memory Syndrome
Poor oul Éamon Gilmore. That doyen of the Liberal Left has been caught out again with his much-discussed and seeminglyContinue Reading
David Norris, The Presidency, 1916, And All That
Senator David Norris addresses the chief charge in opposition to his candidacy for the office of the President of Ireland, and substantively so in my opinion. HereContinue Reading
Imagine Ireland – Without The Irish?
The last week has seen a round of PR hullabaloo and government press spinning to publicise Imagine Ireland, a government-backedContinue Reading
The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies
An edited version of my review of historian Alan Taylor’s ‘The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects,Continue Reading
An Traoi – Troy
If you, like me, are fascinated (obsessed?) with the ancient Greek story of many-towered Ilium represented by the epic poems ofContinue Reading
