Sinister Policing In The Ireland Of Fine Gael And Labour
In November of 2014 the Tánaiste and Labour Party leader, Joan Burton, was greeted by several dozen local residents protesting theContinue Reading
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An Interview With The Parents Of Peace Activist Rachel Corrie
Back in August of 2013 the US-based current affairs website, MintPress News, gained considerable publicity when a report by its correspondents allegedlyContinue Reading
Denis O’Brien, Putting The Boot In
In relation to the controversial entrepreneur Denis O’Brien , the “Donald Trump” of the Irish business world, and his seeming determination to litigate his criticsContinue Reading
American Journalism Fails The Irish Test Once Again
Kurt Eichenwald is a veteran American journalist of some thirty years standing who has specialised in everything from corporate malfeasanceContinue Reading
A’ Seinn An Aghaidh Na Balbhachd
A quick thank you to regular contributor Marconatrix for an email reminder of this 2012 video-documentary from Michael Newton, A’ Seinn an aghaidh na BalbhachdContinue Reading
Attitudes Towards The Irish Language On The Island of Ireland 2015
The Economic and Social Research Institute, the well-known independent think-tank, has released a new, one hundred page study titled, “Attitudes towardsContinue Reading
Fox News Republican Presidential Debate
The right-wing pundits of Fox News have staged their controversial debate between the top ten potential candidates for the conservativeContinue Reading
Hiroshima And Nagasaki 70 Years On
By any rational appraisal the deployment of nuclear weapons against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 6th and 9th ofContinue Reading
The Irish Language Deniers
In an interesting if factually flawed article the surprisingly authoritarian newspaper columnist Victoria White, the eco-activist wife of the Green Party’s lame duckContinue Reading
British Reparations For British Crimes In Ireland And India
Shashi Tharoor, the noted Indian politician and author, delivers some home truths on the murderous nature of the British Empire toContinue Reading
An Sionnach Fionn, On Your Smartphone And Tablet
Back in February the internet giant Google announced significant future changes to the way it handled online searches, prioritising websites that adaptedContinue Reading
Citizen Journalism And Bellingcat
If you are interested in what is commonly known as “citizen journalism“, the internet-invigorated tradition of independent news reporting and analyses coming from individualsContinue Reading
Ireland And Catalonia, Some Historic Parallels
In the general election of December 1918 the revolutionary Irish republican and nationalist party, Sinn Féin, took 73 of theContinue Reading
Lá Lúghnasa Agus Diarmaid Ó Donnabháin Rossa
A belated happy Lá Lúghnasa to one and all as we celebrate the traditional harvest festival marking the commencement of the third quarterContinue Reading
Vice News On The Fianna Éireann And RSF
The pioneering US current affairs website Vice News has just published a short documentary examining the Fianna Éireann, the youthContinue Reading
Super Colonised Irish Syndrome
In today’s Irish Times newspaper Seaghán Mac an tSionnaigh reviews the latest in a wave of books from a new generation ofContinue Reading
Unprecedented Times In Catalan And Irish Politics
Consumed with matters closer to home I have had little chance to highlight some important political developments in Catalonia, in particular the emergenceContinue Reading
Barbarians At The Gate
One of the more remarkable phenomena of modern Ireland has been the slow deculturation of the Irish people, a process ongoing since theContinue Reading
The Hooded Men, British Torture-Centres In Ireland
The Irish Times has a laudably detailed article examining the historic issue of the “Hooded Men”: Irish citizens detained by theContinue Reading
British Spies In The IRA, Myth Versus Reality
Just a quick heads-up for those who have access to the series “Twentieth Century British History” from the Oxford Journals.Continue Reading
Jeremy Corbyn And The Self-Deluding British Press
Watching the right-wing and nationalist press in the UK gnashing its teeth at the thoughts of left-wing MP, Jeremy Corbyn,Continue Reading
Israel On The Road To Self-Destruction
It is somewhat dispiriting, for those on the progressive left, to watch Israel’s continued slide into sectarian and racial totalitarianism,Continue Reading
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