Two Women Called Keogh, The First And Last Fatalities Of 1916-1921
Two women with the surname of Keogh have the sad distinction of being the first and last female fatalities of theContinue Reading
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Better Be Hanged At Home Than Die Like Dogs In Ireland
The literary historian, James Shapiro, has a fascinating article in the Irish Times on William Shakespeare’s aversion to Ireland and the Irish.Continue Reading
Instruction To Customer In Wales: Speak English Or Get Out!
Given my recent posts on the issue of linguistic and cultural discrimination here in Ireland, this report from WalesOnline hardly needsContinue Reading
Unionists Britsplaining The Position Of The Irish Language In Ireland
In relation to my post yesterday on the miserable record of British colonialism in Ireland, which continues to echo in the settler politics ofContinue Reading
The Uncomfortable Question Of Settler Politics In Ireland
The one thing that is guaranteed to infuriate most politicians and journalists from the British unionist minority in Ireland is to make reference to theContinue Reading
No, Declan! You Never Go Full Tinfoil Hat!
Declan Lynch, regular Sunday Independent columnist, drinks deep from the paranoid well of the partitionist core, before rushing to the battlements of Dublin Castle,Continue Reading
Fianna Fáil, The Enabler Of Fine Gael And Labour Government?
Rank hypocrisy is the key hallmark of the political establishment in Ireland, you say? Surely not! From the Irish News,Continue Reading
Blake’s 7 And Gareth Thomas
A quick post to note the passing last week of the seventy-one year old Welsh-born actor Gareth Thomas, who is bestContinue Reading
The IRA’s Assassination Of The American Leader Of A British Death Squad In Ireland
The Daily Beast, under a typically sensationalist headline, “Why Did The IRA Assassinate This American?“, details in a rather selective manner theContinue Reading
Did Britain Lose The War To Win The Peace?
I’ve recommended the historical analyses of Pat Walsh in a previous post and this sample from his forthcoming publication, “Resurgence”, theContinue Reading
From Russia’s National Guard To America’s Private Air Forces
At the risk of drawing the ire of the sockpuppet brigades labouring away in various nondescript buildings around the city of Saint Petersburg, a statement by theContinue Reading
American Weapons And Equipment Among Syria’s Opposition Factions
During the hot years of the Cold War one of the few things the opposing superpowers of the USSR andContinue Reading
The War Nerd, The Punk And The American Supporters Of Irish Freedom
Speaking of laudable Irish-American journalists, the War Nerd (aka Gary Bercher, aka the protean John Dolan) has recently unlocked hisContinue Reading
Andrew O’Hehir On The 1916 Easter Rising
I regularly lambaste American journalists on ASF for their piss-poor knowledge of Ireland and its history, a phenomenon made worse by someContinue Reading
Will The Black And Tans Be Added To The Glasnevin Wall of Shame?
Further on the divisive “Wall of Remembrance” unveiled in the historic grounds of Glasnevin Cemetery on Sunday, a monument which partly pays tributeContinue Reading
The New World Panama Order
Like some mad conspiracy theory from the outer reaches of the world wide web the revelations relating to the Panama-based law firm, Mossack Fonseca, have explodedContinue Reading
Rachel Maddow On The Politics Of Abortion
Apologies to the offended but I find myself in broad agreement with this insightful, and bluntly honest, assessment of theContinue Reading
Atheist Ireland, Not In My Name
All things are political, even religion. Or the lack thereof. My secular atheism influences my view of faith in Ireland’s complex history, both for goodContinue Reading
Glasnevin’s 1916 Wall Of Shame
The apologists for colonialism have their day as the Glasnevin 1916 Remembrance Wall honours British killers alongside the Irish they killed
The Great Betrayal Of Ireland’s Counter-Revolution
Back in 2014 I wrote about the “Great Betrayal”, the abandonment of an all-Ireland republic, an all-Ireland revolution, and anContinue Reading
Donald Trump Questions The Geneva Conventions
Political commentators have been speculating for months that the Donald Trump campaign for the GOP’s presidential nomination would eventually, inevitably, goContinue Reading
Not Merely Free But Gaelic 1916-2016
In August of 1915, Patrick H. Pearse, future president and commander-in-chief of the Provisional Government and Army of the IrishContinue Reading
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