The Shankill Bombing And Britain’s Proxy-War In Belfast
Just after 1 pm on the afternoon of Saturday the 23rd of October 1993, Thomas Begley and Seán Kelly, two volunteers ofContinue Reading
Category: Current Affairs
Headquarters Of The Fenian Brotherhood Of America, New York City
In the latter half of 1865, the Fenian Brotherhood of America (FBA), the formerly clandestine Irish revolutionary organisation in the UnitedContinue Reading
The Gaelic-Haters Of Britain Are At It Again
Well, it’s been a busy week for those who despise the Scottish Gaelic language and the communities which speak it. From attack-stories on government supportContinue Reading
The Scale Of Surveillance Operations By The Irish State Is Staggering
While many people, certainly informed journalists and anti-austerity activists, would have been aware of the soaring levels of surveillance being carried outContinue Reading
The Latest Fake Controversy Over Scottish Gaelic In Scotland
So, another day, another staged controversy drummed up by anglophone supremacists (for which one can read in this case, British nationalists) attackingContinue Reading
Cybernetic Warfare Is Simply An Addition To Blood And Guts Warfare
With the UK Labour Party self-immolating in fine old style as various factions debate its policies on nuclear armaments, specifically the Trident submarine-launched ballistic missileContinue Reading
Mebyon Kernow Wants 2016 To Be Cornwall’s Year
Mebyon Kernow, the Party for Cornwall, has outlined its objectives to make 2016 the year of “…Cornish recognition”. This follows the UK’s long overdue designation ofContinue Reading
NBC News – YouTube Democratic Candidates Debate 2016
For me it was a another win for Bernie Sanders, albeit a narrow one, over Hilary Clinton and also-ran, MartinContinue Reading
Britnat Nastiness Is Mainstream In The UK Press
Merryn Somerset Webb is a relatively well-known business journalist and editor in the UK who writes on a wide range of financial matters for theContinue Reading
In Sinn Féin Lotto 32, I Pick Numbers 1, 9, 1 And 6
At first I thought this was a joke, but no, this is actually a Sinn Féin initiative to drum up newContinue Reading
The Fantasy History Of The 1916 Easter Rising
Liam Kennedy is a professor of economic and social history at Queen’s University Belfast, which is somewhat shocking given thatContinue Reading
Antipathy To The Irish Language Is A Legacy Of Colonialism
Irish is the indigenous language of the island nation of Ireland and has held that unique position for at least theContinue Reading
Dear Idiots, Stop, Please, Just Stop Commenting On Irish Affairs
The Inquisitr is an Israeli-American news aggregation website (or more honestly, a user-submitted group blog) and based on a recent feature article byContinue Reading
Think Tanks And Policy Institutes, Politics And War By Other Means
The centrist US news and current affairs website, The Atlantic, features a prominent article by H.A. Hellyer, a security-analyst with theContinue Reading
The Actions Of Ezra Nawi Make Headlines In Israel Again, As They Once Did In Ireland
In the summer of 2011 the former university lecturer and Joycean scholar, David Norris, was one of the front-runners in theContinue Reading
Dissident Republicans With Their Rockets And Their Guns
Did someone mention, “general election“? With April the 8th serving as the legal cut-off point for the holding of theContinue Reading
Syria In 2015 And The Murder Of Ruqia Hassan
Joshua Landis, the Director of the Centre for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma and author of the ever reliable Syrian CommentContinue Reading
WordPress Reader, The Flipboard And Newsstand Alternative
In a recent post I highlighted the availability of An Sionnach Fionn’s news feed on Flipboard, the cross-platform social-media aggregator that can be found inContinue Reading
The Renua Election Manifesto, Light On The Taxes, Lighter On The Irish
Renua, the right-wing “1% party”, launched its seventy-six page 2016 election manifesto yesterday under the stewardship of its leader, the conservative media darling,Continue Reading
It’s The Democracy, Stupid
Pat McCarthy, who was imprisoned without trial by the British in the early 1970s for alleged membership of the (Official) Irish Republican ArmyContinue Reading
The Irish Language In Montréal
There’s a surprisingly lengthy article in the Montréal Gazette newspaper by feature writer, Kate Sheridan, on the growing number of Irish-speakers andContinue Reading
Captain Robert Nairac, Britain’s Death Squad Adventurer
2016 may be the centenary of the Easter Rising of 1916, and some journalists employed by the main titles ofContinue Reading
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