Northern Ireland, The Sectarian And Racist Squalor Of Britain’s Last Colony
Anna Lo, the Chinese-Irish president of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI), a liberal unionist grouping in the north-east ofContinue Reading
Category: Current Affairs
Native Peoples Face Violence And Exploitation By Western Interests
Rather more disturbing than the blinkered opinions of a Donald Trump fanboy in the Irish press are these two reports below.Continue Reading
The Donald Trump Defenders Find Their Irish Champion
There is a certain satisfaction to be derived from having one’s opinions – or prejudices – confirmed and that is certainlyContinue Reading
Saor Éire, The Mystery Of Ireland’s Trotskyist Revolutionaries
In terms of domestic Irish history Saor Éire was probably the most unusual – and controversial – left-leaning republican organisation to haveContinue Reading
The Battle Of Mosul Becomes Wartainment
The ongoing military contest for the city of Mosul, the formerly populous town in northern Iraq held by the Islamic State since 2014,Continue Reading
When It Comes To The Irish Language Saoradh Looks to Éirígí For Inspiration
Saoradh, the self-styled “Revolutionary Irish Republican Party”, has published the organisation’s constitution on its Facebook Page (though not on itsContinue Reading
The Othering Of The Irish Language And Those Who Speak It
Ursula Ní Shabhaois, writing on her blog “Ag Smaoineamh Os Ard“, reiterates a point that many choose to overlook: the linguistic andContinue Reading
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey Casts A Cold Eye On The Irish-British Peace Process
The Irish political activist, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, giving us a reminder of why she was such a powerful voice in the early yearsContinue Reading
Micheál Martin, Fianna Fáil’s Cold War Warrior
So I’ve just discovered that at some stage during the day, between going to work this morning and returning home this evening, the island of Ireland was hurtled backContinue Reading
Stop And Search Policing, Collective Punishment For Minority Communities
During a number of recent speeches the presidential nominee for the Republican Party in the United States, ex-real estate mogul DonaldContinue Reading
Ben Carson Demands That Woman Journalist Is Silenced While Defending Trump
There was an extraordinary exchange between the former Republican Party presidential hopeful, Ben Carson, and the British journalist, Katty Kay, during anContinue Reading
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Unionists Outraged By Mafia III Game. World Asks, What Are Unionists?
Those damn Irish unionists are at it again! From the Australasian gaming website, Game Planet: “Irish Unionists call for ban onContinue Reading
Bomb-Dropping Drones In The Syrian Civil War
In previous posts I’ve referred to the militarisation of relatively cheap civilian drones by a number of armed groups participating in theContinue Reading
John Podesta And The Clinton Campaign On It’s Ethnic Outreach To The Irish
Scanning through the recent tranche of hacked emails released by Wikileaks, taken from the Gmail account of John Podesta, the chairperson for Hillary Clinton’s presidentialContinue Reading
Defending Donald Trump’s Penchant For Dropping The Hand
One suspects that if the Republican Party nominee, Donald Trump, succeeds in his campaign to be elected the president ofContinue Reading
Britain Seeks To Control Ireland’s Borders In Deal For No Brexit Barrier Around North
On Saturday afternoon up to a thousand people attended the first in a series of demonstrations in the north of Ireland to protest the possible effects of the UnitedContinue Reading
The #Gaelexit Campaign Turns Anglophone Victimiser Into Anglophone Victim
So the online current affairs website, The Journal, has published yet another opinion piece on the Irish language and theContinue Reading
Big Drop For Fianna Fáil And Slight Rise For Sinn Féin In Latest Poll
While taking due note of the significant margin of error in the latest Irish Times-Ipsos MRBI poll there are still some things of interestContinue Reading
Irish, A Living Language That Others Are Seeking To Kill
There is no process of natural selection for languages, no evolutionary rule which dictates that one tongue is inevitably suppressed or supplanted by another.Continue Reading
Likelihood Of A Brexit Border In Ireland Grows As UK Rejects Human Rights Convention
In 1992 the Associated Press distributed a newspaper report examining the United Kingdom’s then practice of using “human shields” toContinue Reading
An Garda Síochána, A Police Force Mired In Controversy And Corruption
Repeated allegations of systemic corruption have been made by independent politicians and journalists against sections of An Garda Síochána, Ireland’sContinue Reading
Unionism’s Continued Culture War Between Settler And Native In Ireland
Back in 2013 the political theorist and author, Daniel Butt, identified three characteristics which are found in most descriptions of historical colonialism:Continue Reading
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