Author: An Sionnach Fionn
The Big Idea Artist Spotlight: John Harris
Whatever If you’ve read science fiction in the last quarter century, then you know the work John Harris: His artworkContinue Reading
Demand For Scottish Medium Education Outstrips Supply
From Glasgow’s Evening Times newspaper: “Christine and Iain Agnew are keen to support Scotland’s language and so sent son ArchieContinue Reading
The Lia Fáil Desecrated Once Again
Two years ago I featured a report on the act of vandalism carried out against the Lia Fáil, the ancientContinue Reading
Joan Burton, A Bridge Too Far
If there is an Irish government minister more disliked by Seán and Síle Citizen than Joan Burton you’d be hardContinue Reading
Fundamentalism Hates Fundamentalism
When religious fundamentalism combines with politics to create a cultural and societal norm that “the people” are expected to conform to it must alsoContinue Reading
Guardian Story On Boston Wiretaps
Originally posted on The Broken Elbow:
Irish tabloid faces questions over report on Boston College tapes family Wife of former project researcher…
The All-Ireland Percentage Vote For The European Parliament 2014
Thought I’d show some of the figures for the All-Ireland vote for the European Parliament being discussed on the blogContinue Reading
The art of independence and the ashes of Ukipukia
Originally posted on Wee Ginger Dug:
The world is having a flashback from a tab of LSD it dropped in the late…
Republican Left Leads The Poll In Catalonia
With all the focus on the success of Sinn Féin and various Left parties and candidates in the European andContinue Reading
Some Basque Lessons
This article on the resilience of the indigenous language of the historic Basque nation in north-eastern Spain and neighbouring France isContinue Reading
Celebrating the classics, Cars&Coffee style…
Originally posted on digitaldtour:
Celebrating the classics was an underlying theme recently at Cars&Coffee / Irvine. This fact became quite obvious…
The Morning After Poll
The headline figures from the RTÉ exit poll have been published and they are showing a huge jump in supportContinue Reading
Electoral Unrest In Derry
Interesting results in Derry with the election of three Independent candidates one of whom is unquestionably from the Republican Left.Continue Reading
The Vote
As usual I voted in the last half-hour of the polls (though unusually there were still quite a few peopleContinue Reading
TTIP – Ionsaí ar an daonlathas ar na bacáin
Originally posted on Crá Croí Cois Cuain:
Agóid in éadan TTIP sa Ghearmáin ar na mallaibh Thóg na póilíní timpeall 250 duine ag…
Vote to kill the counter-revolution
Originally posted on The Irish Republic:
If recent opinion polls are to be believed, Friday 23rd of May 2014 may turn out…
Statement On PSNI Threat To Boston Archive
Originally posted on The Broken Elbow:
I call upon the US government to resist this fishing expedition by the PSNI and to…
Expediency Is No Substitute For Commitment
From a profile in today’s Irish Times on Lynn Boylan, formerly Lynn Ní Bhaoighealláin , the Sinn Féin candidate inContinue Reading
Breaking News: NBC News Seeks Subpoenaed Interviews From Boston Court
Originally posted on The Broken Elbow:
Thebrokenelbow.com has learned in the last few minutes that NBC News has written to Judge William…
Ireland And Scotland, Our Democracies, Our Voices
The recent polls in Ireland and Scotland make for interesting reading in the run-up to the European and local electionsContinue Reading
Divide Et Impera
Seriously, have people lost all sense of reality in relation to the admittedly bitter divisions within the broad Republican movement stemming fromContinue Reading
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