An Sionnach Fionn – 400,000 And Rising
A quick post to note that after two-and-a-half years of existence An Sionnach Fionn has now passed 400,000 views, theContinue Reading
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Ireland’s Apartheid Republic
In response to yesterday’s surprise resignation by the Language Rights Commissioner Seán Ó Cuirreáin, an act of protest against the cultureContinue Reading
Ireland’s Second-Class Citizens – With Second-Class Rights
In a shock announcement this afternoon Ireland’s Language Commissioner, Seán Ó Cuirreáin, unexpectedly resigned from his office after nearly tenContinue Reading
Tolerating The Armed Struggle
So the multi-million euro Smithwick Tribunal has concluded that on the balance of probabilities the ambush by an Active ServiceContinue Reading
Your Flexible Friend
So independent Teachta Dála Colm Keaveney, a former member of the nominally left-wing and socialist Labour Party, is to joinContinue Reading
British War Hysteria – The Hibernoban!
So to another round of Fantasy Troubles as the news media in Britain, with a nod and a wink fromContinue Reading
No Irish-Speakers
Following the news yesterday that several hundred jobs are to be lost as three companies reduce or cease their operationsContinue Reading
Vae Victis!
The hostile reaction to the publication of Anne Cadwallader’s book “Lethal Allies”, a history of the British death squads whichContinue Reading
Life In The Big House
Nice work if you can get it. From the Irish Times: “A former mayor of Limerick has heavily criticised theContinue Reading
The Daily Lucinda
When the journalists and editors of a right-wing media cartel start campaigning for the creation of a political party toContinue Reading
Licensed To Kill
While the revelations about the murderous activities of British Army death squads in Ireland in the early and mid 1970sContinue Reading
Sinn Féin, Éirígí And The Republican Left
A quick post to highlight some recent political analyses. The first comes from World by Storm examining the alleged reductionContinue Reading
An Island Nation Once Called Ireland
Following on from my post here on the government plans to demolish uninhabited housing estates left behind by the evaporationContinue Reading
Death Squad Britain – The Past That Won’t Stay Hidden
Regular readers of An Sionnach Fionn will know how many times we have examined in detail the activities of Britain’sContinue Reading
Québécois Secularism Rattles Canadian Unionism
The debate in Québec over Bill 60 or the proposed Charter of Values, secularist legislation being advocated by the rulingContinue Reading
Socio-Economic Cleansing – The Irish Way Of Doing Things
So the Fine Oibre government is considering demolishing forty of the ”worse” ghost estates in the country. From the Journal:Continue Reading
Ireland’s Realpolitik
From the Irish Independent newspaper an example of how the establishment in Ireland, political, media, business and judicial, differentiates betweenContinue Reading
Wolfing Around
Given the importance of wolves in the traditions of the Indo-European peoples as far back as one can go intoContinue Reading
Publishing News From Scotland And Ireland
Congratulations to the author Tim Armstrong on his award from the Saltire Society, one of Scotland’s premier cultural organisations, for hisContinue Reading
Righting A Wrong Simply Because It Is The Right Thing To Do
Two vastly contrasting stories that ultimately derive from the same history of invasion, occupation, annexation and colonisation. The first dealsContinue Reading
Those Damn Gaels
While the Anglophone extreme in Ireland are foaming at the mouth (or more accurately, the keyboard) over the suggestion byContinue Reading
From Drogue Grenades To IRAMs
There are a couple of recent articles in the At War blog of the New York Times that are quiteContinue Reading
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