JK Rowling, In Defence Of Greater England
Sometimes an individual should simply stick to doing what he or she does best. In the case of the BritishContinue Reading
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Catalan Nationalists Breaking Under The Pressure?
Despite the recent general election landslide for Nicola’s Sturgeon’s SNP in Scotland, independence remains an unlikely prospect in the nearContinue Reading
The British Army’s “Tuzo Plan” Of 1972
Over on the Broken Elbow blog the veteran Irish journalist Ed Moloney has a detailed examination of the British Army’sContinue Reading
Don’t Hate The Gays, Hate The Mothers Who Made Them Gay
The recent decision by a majority of voters in Ireland to support the inclusion of marriage-equality in our constitution continues to echo around the world,Continue Reading
Collusion Or The Secret History Of The British “Jihad” In Ireland
One might well regard it as forty years and several hundred deaths too late but RTÉ, Ireland’s public service broadcaster, seems to haveContinue Reading
Uaigh Éadaoine, Éadaoin’s Grave, Hill Of Howth
Ceann Bhinn Éadair or Howth Head is the suburbanised peninsula overlooking the northern half of Dublin Bay, a headland that is geographically dominatedContinue Reading
Irish Language Rights Are No Rights At All
Coincidental to the temporary silencing of a compliant Irish press by a billionaire businessman whose past dealings have become mired in controversy,Continue Reading
Substituting Numbers For Results In Iraq And Syria
From a report last week by Reuters, republished throughout the “Western” news media: “More than 10,000 Islamic State militants haveContinue Reading
The Battle Of Pettigo And Belleek, May To June 1922
The Battle of Pettigo and Belleek in the summer of 1922 was the largest military engagement between the Irish Republican ArmyContinue Reading
The National Flag Of Ireland Flies Over Stormont
The Green, White and Orange flies over the north-east’s regional assembly building at Stormont. We are living in the end days ofContinue Reading
He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named
On Thursday the 28th of May the independent TD Catherine Murphy, a recent campaigner against fiscal impropriety and corruption in Irish society, made a contribution to DáilContinue Reading
Britain’s Army Of Serial Killers In Ireland
In the late 1980s and early ‘90s British terrorist groups in the north-east of Ireland began to justify their attacksContinue Reading
Willard Price’s Adventure Series, With Hal And Roger Hunt
Oh happy days! Well not quite, but forgive a brief moment of satisfaction following the discovery of the name –Continue Reading
The Real and Fake Twitter Followers Of TheJournal.ie And George Hook
Back in March the social networking site Facebook insisted that I change my personal FB profile to a promotional FacebookContinue Reading
Michael White, The Debonair Greater Englander
Michael White, the parliamentary correspondent of the nominally centre-left Guardian newspaper in the UK, has gained an unenviable reputation overContinue Reading
The Conspiracy To Impose Homo-Fascism On Ireland
Well away from public scrutiny, is this the nonsense the base of the “No” campaign is comforting itself with inContinue Reading
The Fallen Of World War II
The “Fallen of World War II” is a data-driven feature examining the human cost of the Second World War, measuring the losses incurred to otherContinue Reading
LGBT Rights In Ireland Cannot Be Partitioned
No doubt most of you are aware that the referendum proposing the addition of a gender-neutral description of marriageContinue Reading
Fianna Fáil, A Party Without A Cause
My family has been dwelling in Dublin city and its environs since the mid-1800s, part of the mass rural exodusContinue Reading
Here Be Dragons, Book Images Of The Internet Archive On Flickr
Susceptible as I am to the marriage of history with technology, being the original antiquarian-technophile, my love affair with the Internet ArchiveContinue Reading
Fathers And Mothers Matter, Respect And Understanding Not So Much
We are in the last week of the referendum campaign debating the addition of a new sub-section to Bunreacht naContinue Reading
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