Living Inside The Pale – Or The Contemptible Nature Of Irish Journalism
On June 18th 1994 in the small Irish village of Loughinisland a number of Irish men and women gathered together in their localContinue Reading
Category: Current Affairs
Stars Come Out For Scotland
From the Scotsman: “SOME of Scotland’s “leading stars” will lend their support to the campaign for Scottish independence when itContinue Reading
Minding Your Language In Derry
A new survey of local secondary students by Derry City Council has found a fair degree of both use and support amongst pupils fromContinue Reading
History And Counter-History In Ireland – Confronting The Apologist Historians
Just a quick post to highlight Protestant Cork 1911-1926, one of the best resources I’ve seen so far on the issue of the alleged declineContinue Reading
Polling The Future
Following on from yesterday’s post about the effects of the right-wing policies of Canada’s Tory-led federal government on the separatist-inclined province (orContinue Reading
The Canadian Right Pushes Away The Québécois Left
There’s a recent article in the Global Post examining the actions of the Conservative Party government in Canada and theContinue Reading
Gay Rights And Gael Rights. Facing Down The Bigots
The Irish Examiner has an editorial, presumably reflecting the newspaper’s official view, which yet again shows the extraordinarily warped reasoning of theContinue Reading
Support Austerity Treaty Says Pat Cox Megarich European Politician. Sorry! I Meant, MEP
Ah, the upcoming referendum on the Austerity Treaty has the Golden Circle all of a-quiver as they face the outsideContinue Reading
Bad Blood In The Massachusetts Senate Race?
There is a minor firestorm in US politics at the moment (and no, I don’t mean the jaw-droppingly medieval lawContinue Reading
Ignorance Is Bliss
In the Scotsman newspaper columnist Fiona McCade has contributed to the world of journalism one of the most selfish, self-centred,Continue Reading
Brit-Nats Jump Down The Rabbit Hole To Escape The SNP Vote
Apparently the Scottish National Party received an electoral drubbing in the local elections held in Scotland last week. Or soContinue Reading
The Dragon In The East
The Irish political classes. What a work of man they are. Throughout the 19th century they clung parasite-like to theContinue Reading
Bobaí Ó Seachnasaigh
The British version of the Huffington Post, which strangely I’ve always found a wee bit right-wing given its liberal US origins, carries a lengthyContinue Reading
Gaelic North America
I’ve discussed the popularity of the Irish language in North America before but it’s not the only Gaelic tongue enjoying a renaissance there. InContinue Reading
Shining A Light On Institutional Discrimination?
Following on from the revelations of serious breaches by a significant number of public bodies in relation to their legal obligations underContinue Reading
Surprise Results For New Irish Language Survey In The North
The northern regional Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL) has published a new study, ‘Public Attitudes towards the IrishContinue Reading
Scotland Moves Forward – While Ireland Goes Into Reverse
In Ireland a significant number of government departments and other public bodies, along with many public officials, have spent muchContinue Reading
The Banality Of Discrimination
The most notable thing about discrimination, whether towards a race or an ethnicity, is the utter, petty banality of it all. In IrelandContinue Reading
Éamon Ó Cuív – Republican Dissident?
Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin in government together? Something surely to send the Seoníní elite at the Irish and Sunday Independent newspapers into aContinue Reading
Institutional Discrimination In The Irish State – The Culture Of An “Anglophone Stormont”
If you’ve been wondering just exactly why the Fine Gael – Labour coalition government seems so utterly determined to scrap the officeContinue Reading
Québec Independence – Only A Matter Of Time?
Two fascinating reports today on the independence movements in Québec and Scotland and the effect both are having on each other. The first articleContinue Reading
Native Americans – Trapped In The USA
Unexpected but welcome news in the Guardian as a United Nations (UN) committee is about to carry out an investigation into theContinue Reading
AN SIONNACH FIONN 