Hobitit – The Hobbits
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Raven, Swordmistress Of Chaos, Chris Achilléos
Chris Achilléos is a Cypriot-born British artist who came to prominence in the 1970s and ‘80s with illustrations for aContinue Reading
Inés Del Rio Prada Freed In Basque Country
Inés del Rio Prada, a member of ETA (the Basque separatist organisation) and Spain’s longest serving political prisoner, has beenContinue Reading
Eat The Old
Back in September the journal.ie, an online Irish news and current affairs website, held a poll asking its readers ifContinue Reading
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 6.4″ Smartphone – Oh How I Love Thee
A few weeks ago I was discussing my need for a new mobile phone to replace my existing three year oldContinue Reading
Win 8.1, WiFi And Lenovo’s Q190
So Win 8.1, the service pack that is not a service pack, has been disgorged into Win 8 machines allContinue Reading
Scotland’s Non-People
Right-wing journalist and British nationalist writer Allan Massie has a misleading opinion piece in today’s Scotsman newspaper on the ScottishContinue Reading
The Recent Hezbollah Executions In Syria
Phillip Smyth in the excellent Brown Moses blog examines a particularly graphic war crime in Syria, the filmed execution by allegedContinue Reading
Romantic Ireland’s Grave
From the Dublin culture and history blog Come Here To Me: “The Croppies Acre memorial in Dublin commemorates the UnitedContinue Reading
Death Dealer, Frank Frazetta
The name of Frank Frazetta will conjure up for many some of the most luscious and artistically accomplished Fantasy artContinue Reading
Not In Our Name
Two Irish citizens, both petty criminals with some minor involvement in the drugs’ trade, separately “executed” in the Irish citiesContinue Reading
End Times In The United States
While some in the United States believe their nation is perched on the cusp of a very literal biblical apocalypseContinue Reading
The Democratic Road To A Reunited Ireland
The group-blog “It’s A Political World” has a very good post examining the suppression by the old Unionist regime atContinue Reading
Flegs! In Scotland!
This “flegger” thing seems to be positively contagious. From Wings Over Scotland news on the proposal by members of theContinue Reading
Remembering The Shankill Road Bombing
I suspect that I am not the only Republican made uneasy by a community plan in Ardoyne to hold aContinue Reading
Hispanicise And Anglicize
Interesting article in the Irish Times on Monday examining attempts by the anti-separatist regional government in the Balearic Islands toContinue Reading
To Phone Or Not To Phone
I’m normally one of those fevered device-swapping, early-adopting geeks eager to get his or her hands on the next techContinue Reading
The Shadow Of The Torturer, Bruce Pennington
For lovers of science-fiction and fantasy book art from the 1970s and ’80s the name of Bruce Pennington looms large.Continue Reading
The Labour Party, Not Waving But Drowning
There may well be something anomalous about the latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI opinion poll but even with that caveat inContinue Reading
The Success Of Ghettoising Irish In The Schools
Tell a lie often enough and loud enough, and eventually it becomes the perceived truth. From RTÉ: “Minister of StateContinue Reading
Education In Britain – Cultural Conditioning?
In the 2011 census on the island of Britain large numbers of people living in Scotland, Wales and England rejectedContinue Reading
British Clowns Have Their Day In Court
The political, intellectual and cultural powerhouse of British nationalism in Ireland: Willie Frazer and chums. Oh well, at leastContinue Reading
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