It Is No More A Sin To Kill An Irishman Than A Dog
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The INLA Show Of Strength In The City Of Derry
Following the recent death of Peggy O’Hara, the veteran political activist in the city of Derry, the Irish Republican Socialist Party andContinue Reading
Killing The Irish
Over the last few weeks I have been receiving unusually frequent and comprehensive PR releases from the Green Party’s press office, sometimesContinue Reading
Questioning The Media Myth Of The Moderate Orange Order
Another July 12th round of rioting, street disturbances, house-burnings and general displays of sectarianism, racism and straight-forward fascism. Of course someContinue Reading
The Eircode Controversy Or Screwing The Irish In That Other England
Eircode, the controversial, multi-million euro postal code system for Ireland, has been launched by Alex White, the coalition’s minister forContinue Reading
A Sordid Tale Of British Gunmen, Bombers And Policemen
In his final exploration of the evidence sourced for the RTÉ television documentary “Collusion”, a feature-length programme examining the links between the UK military and intelligence services garrisonedContinue Reading
58% Support Welsh Teaching For Children In English-Speaking Schools
ITV News in the UK has a headline-grabbing story on its website: “Exclusive poll: 64% oppose compulsory Welsh to ageContinue Reading
Shoot-To-Kill, Britain’s Summary Executions And Assassinations In Ireland
Sometimes I do wonder if the dozens of Irish and British journalists who spent most of their careers loftily dismissingContinue Reading
The Reorganisation Of The IRA In The Early 1970s
Irish journalist and author Ed Moloney, now resident in New York, has an interesting article over on his Broken ElbowContinue Reading
Microsoft’s Rudderless Ship Dumps More Crew
News that Microsoft is to shed nearly eight thousand staff from its global operations should come as a surprise toContinue Reading
The DUP Lays Down The Law As The NAMA Scandal Grows
Here we go again! It seems that Ireland has gone from the Land of Saints and Scholars to the Land ofContinue Reading
For July 12th Confederate, Nazi And British Terrorist Flags Fly In Ireland
So in the run-up to the annual July 12th “celebrations” in the north-east of Ireland some extreme elements of theContinue Reading
Ukraine’s Bilingual Nation
The European version of Politico, the American news and current affairs website, has a short article by Timothy SnyderContinue Reading
The Blog Awards Ireland 2015
I’ve received several messages from attentive readers in relation to the Blog Awards Ireland 2015, which are now open forContinue Reading
The United States, War Junkie
The always excellent Tom Dispatch has an insightful article by William Astore, a former US air force lieutenant colonel, on whatContinue Reading
Confederate Flaggers And Unionist Fleggers
The similarities between the extreme fringe of the British unionist minority in the north-eastern part of Ireland and the extreme fringeContinue Reading
It Pays To Be Adam But Rarely Eve
To be a woman in a world where some men have cast aside the necessary bonds of civilization is a dreadful fate indeed.Continue Reading
Kurdish Victories In Syria And Iraq Make For Nervous Turks
Just as things were beginning to look up for the various Kurdish factions fighting the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, reports out ofContinue Reading
Israel’s Journey From Jewish State To Pariah State
Are there any issues more divisive in “Western” political discourse than the existence, history and policies of the modern nation-state ofContinue Reading
Irish Is Not Dying, Irish Is Being Killed
When the greater part of Ireland won its independence from the United Kingdom in the early 1920s the number ofContinue Reading
Dylann Roof, The Last Rhodesian – Or Ulsterman
In the wake of the racially-motivated massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by DylannContinue Reading
Supporting The Kurds
Malcolm Harris in the New Republic focuses on the great anomaly of the conflict in Syria and Iraq: the United States’Continue Reading
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