Dear Idiots, Stop, Please, Just Stop Commenting On Irish Affairs
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Think Tanks And Policy Institutes, Politics And War By Other Means
The centrist US news and current affairs website, The Atlantic, features a prominent article by H.A. Hellyer, a security-analyst with theContinue Reading
An Irish Girl Rebel And The American Poet Joyce Kilmer
I thought some readers of An Sionnach Fionn might be interested in this interview, originally published in The New YorkContinue Reading
The Actions Of Ezra Nawi Make Headlines In Israel Again, As They Once Did In Ireland
In the summer of 2011 the former university lecturer and Joycean scholar, David Norris, was one of the front-runners in theContinue Reading
Dissident Republicans With Their Rockets And Their Guns
Did someone mention, “general election“? With April the 8th serving as the legal cut-off point for the holding of theContinue Reading
Syria In 2015 And The Murder Of Ruqia Hassan
Joshua Landis, the Director of the Centre for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma and author of the ever reliable Syrian CommentContinue Reading
WordPress Reader, The Flipboard And Newsstand Alternative
In a recent post I highlighted the availability of An Sionnach Fionn’s news feed on Flipboard, the cross-platform social-media aggregator that can be found inContinue Reading
The Renua Election Manifesto, Light On The Taxes, Lighter On The Irish
Renua, the right-wing “1% party”, launched its seventy-six page 2016 election manifesto yesterday under the stewardship of its leader, the conservative media darling,Continue Reading
Is MTV’s New Fantasy Offering Shannara Shore Or Shannara Cribs?
In the 1990s and early 2000s many critics decried the stunted practice in the movie and television industries of plagiarising the productions of rivalContinue Reading
It’s The Democracy, Stupid
Pat McCarthy, who was imprisoned without trial by the British in the early 1970s for alleged membership of the (Official) Irish Republican ArmyContinue Reading
The Irish Language In Montréal
There’s a surprisingly lengthy article in the Montréal Gazette newspaper by feature writer, Kate Sheridan, on the growing number of Irish-speakers andContinue Reading
Captain Robert Nairac, Britain’s Death Squad Adventurer
2016 may be the centenary of the Easter Rising of 1916, and some journalists employed by the main titles ofContinue Reading
Saudi Arabia Executes Dozens While Saudi Princes Party Hard
The decision by the despotic kingdom of Saudi Arabia to execute forty-seven prisoners convicted of various offensives, primarily what the nominally Salafist-Wahhabi regime inContinue Reading
An Sionnach Fionn Available On Flipboard And Google Play Newsstand
Just a quick post to let readers know that An Sionnach Fionn is now available for users of Flipboard, the popular freeContinue Reading
The Labour Party Fattens Up Before The Electoral Culling Begins
The Labour Party membership ready themselves for the coming electoral storm by burying their snouts deep in the salary-trough…
Top Twenty Articles For 2015
It’s New Year’s Day, traditionally a time for news and current affairs websites or blogs to feature a list of theirContinue Reading
Athbhliain Faoi Shéan Is Faoi Mhaise Daoibh!
A very happy new year’s eve to all the readers and sharers of An Sionnach Fionn from me, your humbleContinue Reading
Joan Burton Falls Out Of A Boat In Vicious Attack By Sinister Water
An Tánaiste and Labour Party boss, Joan Burton, with her PR-handlers in a tiny boat, in a tiny side-trickle of aContinue Reading
Majority Of Irish DNA May Have Originated In The Middle East And Eastern Europe
I’m sure some of you may have seen the recent flurry of articles in the national and international press highlightingContinue Reading
The Tangled Politics Of The Iraqi Kurdistan Region
A fair degree of simplistic thinking exists in the Western news media and political classes when it comes to the position ofContinue Reading
The Killing Of Zahran Alloush, A Gift To The Islamic State
So Zahran Alloush, the controversial military commander of Jaysh al-Islam, one of the largest non-secular Opposition groups in Syria, and five ofContinue Reading
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