Evidence Of The Biggest Battle Known From Bronze Age Europe
The magazine, Science, has a fantastic in-depth article reporting on research carried out into a treasure trove of prehistoric findsContinue Reading
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Russian Tank Meets American Missile In Syrian Proxy War
Whatever else one may say about the muddled involvement of the United States and the Russian Federation in the dreadful Syrian civil war itContinue Reading
A Catholic Priest And The Message Of British Guns Good, Irish Guns Bad
So a Roman Catholic priest, a Jesuit intellectual no less, condemns armed insurrection by a significant body of men andContinue Reading
Writer Barry Kennerk Replies To His Critics
My short post on Friday criticising the tone and content of the New York Times opinion piece, “Inventing the Irish“, has generated considerable interestContinue Reading
The John Redmond Banner And Ireland’s 35,000 Dead
A quick update on the divisive 1916-2016 centenary banner erected by Dublin city council at the prominent Bank of Ireland building in College GreenContinue Reading
In Praise Of Garry Shandling
I’ve never really understood the grief some people feel at the death of a public figure, usually a celebrity ofContinue Reading
The New York Times Argues That The Irish Are Actually British
The New York Times has published an extraordinary opinion piece by the writer, Barry Kennerk, on the significance of the centenaryContinue Reading
Improvised Armour, From The British Army 1916 To The Islamic State 2016
Just after 12 o’clock on the afternoon of Easter Monday, the 24th of April 1916, Patrick H. Pearse and his revolutionary colleagues were escortedContinue Reading
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Two Irish Fantasy Writers On The 1916 Easter Rising
A quick post to recommend this short essay, “The Political Imagination: Irish Fantasy Writers and the Easter Rising“, by Rob MaslenContinue Reading
Two Documentaries On The Kurdish War, Plus The Russians Get A Fright
A couple of recent video documentaries on the Kurdish struggle in Syria and Iraq. The first, “Kurdistan: Girls at War“, wasContinue Reading
Michael Ware On The Iraq War And The Islamic State
These two interviews with the Australian war correspondent, Michael Ware, highlighting his traumatic experiences reporting on the conflict in Iraq, nowContinue Reading
Orange Is Not The Only Fruit, Just Ask The Mandarins Of The Alliance Party
So, the regional justice minister in the north-east, David Ford, has disdained an invite to the official celebrations in the capital markingContinue Reading
The Excusers And Apologists For The Bloody Sunday Massacre Are Still With Us
At the tail end of last year the former British army commander turned security “expert”, Tim Collins, writing in Britain’s conservative SundayContinue Reading
The Scottish Government Backs BBC Alba In The Wake Of Tory Budget Cuts
Last November I featured news from Britain on the decision by the Conservative Party government in London to make savage cuts to the public fundingContinue Reading
#Jacobin1916 Launch 19.03.2016
On Saturday, March 19th 2016, an Irish edition of Jacobin Magazine will be launched in Liberty Hall, Dublin. The issue willContinue Reading
Irish And Celtic Origins In The Late Bronze Age
At the end of last year I discussed the publication of a research paper analysing the ancient DNA remains of a number of individuals whoContinue Reading
When Irish History And Geography Meets American Earnestness
From the United States (but of course), and more specifically, the city of Seattle (naturally), a video illustration of “100 YearsContinue Reading
Internationalised Domain Names To Be Introduced For Ireland Namespace
It seems likely that the IE Domain Registry (IEDR), the company that manages Ireland’s “.ie” country code top-level domain (ccTLD), is to go aheadContinue Reading
Rejected General Election Pigs Looking For A Trough
Way back in June of 2013 a post on the Cedar Lounge Revolution asked, “Is the Seanad really a dumping groundContinue Reading
John Redmond MP, The Historical Man And The Revisionist Myth
In recent days we have witnessed the bizarre spectacle of Dublin city council erecting a 1916-2016 centenary banner at theContinue Reading
Abortion Prohibitionists Choose To Victim Blame Women And Girls
There are people of both genders around the world who oppose the provision of clinical abortion services to women for aContinue Reading
A New Dáil, A New Ceann Comhairle, An Old Taoiseach
Today was the first session of the post-election Dáil Éireann, the thirty-second incarnation of Ireland’s legislature since the revolutionary assembly of 1919-21. In the centenaryContinue Reading
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