Author: An Sionnach Fionn
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Joan Burton, Minister For Amnesia
Joan Burton, the unapologetic “minister for austerity” and now Labour Party leader on the (unlikely) possibility of Sinn Féin beingContinue Reading
New Europe Defies Old Europe
Last Thursday over 1.8 million men, women and children took to the streets of Barcelona demanding independence for Catalonia in aContinue Reading
Ian Paisley 1926-2014
There is an Irish tradition that if you have nothing good to say of the dead then say nothing. ThatContinue Reading
Lies, Damned Lies, And The British News Media
Early yesterday morning Scotland’s first minister, Alex Salmond, held a lengthy Q&A with the Scottish, British and international news mediaContinue Reading
John Prescott, A Metaphor For Failed Britain
As the referendum campaign on Scottish independence enters its closing days Lord John Prescott, the former Deputy Prime Minister of theContinue Reading
An Leabhar Beag Gorm, The Little Blue Book
Last week Wilson McLeod took to the website Bella Caledonia to criticise the glaring absence of the native Scottish (Gaelic)Continue Reading
Australia’s Shame
Native Australians make up just 2% of Australia’s population but form an incredible 26% of the national prison population, risingContinue Reading
Solidarity From Wales, Go For It Scotland
A quick heads-up for a rally by the Welsh Go For It Scotland – Ewch Amdani Alba campaign group inContinue Reading
Scotland Requires Some Gaelic Solidarity
Until recent weeks the Irish media was relatively quiet on events in Scotland expecting, like most commentators around the globe,Continue Reading
The Irrational Nature Of The Anti-Irish Bigots
Have some indigenous Gaelic moles crept into the hallowed Hibernophobe halls of Independent House, publishers of the Indo stable of newspapers? A coupleContinue Reading
Scotland To Say Yes?
Within the margin of error but given two years of unrelenting attacks by the British political and media establishment itContinue Reading
A Republic Of Equals
There is an old saying in the history of Ireland that relates to the waves of immigration our island nation hasContinue Reading
Irish-Medium Education Overcoming The Odds
Over the last decade the devolved government in Wales, with near cross-party unanimity, has used its growing powers over educationContinue Reading
The Yazidis And The Origins Of The Desert Religions
There are all sorts of crazy theories surrounding the rise of ISIS, now the Islamic State (IS), and its successesContinue Reading
Scotland The Brave
The Mirror has an excellent post featuring a recent radio discussion in the United States on Scotland’s upcoming referendum onContinue Reading
The Many Faces Of The Irish News Media
Jim Cusack, the “security” correspondent of the Sunday Independent newspaper and arch-apologist for British colonial policing in Ireland, has pennedContinue Reading
The Age Of Wars
Couple of things caught my eye over the weekend. One is the low key presence of the regular Iraqi ArmedContinue Reading
Second Spoken Languages Of Contemporary Europe
Interesting charts from the folk at (the anglocentric) Move Hub: “This map shows the second most common first language inContinue Reading
The Irish Republic
I remember writing an essay many years ago where I stated that the Irish revolution was the making of Ireland’sContinue Reading
Salmond Hammers Darling In Second TV Debate
Well the verdict is in and it seems that Alex Salmond, the SNP first minister of Scotland, has emerged asContinue Reading
No Speak The Irish!
As if the precarious position of Irish-speaking citizens and communities in Ireland was not difficult enough living under the authorityContinue Reading
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