The Catalan Way – The View From The Baltics
An opinion piece from Lithuania on the Baltic-inspired background story to the recent “human chain” or Catalan Way formed byContinue Reading
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The 1969 Truthers
A few weeks ago the odious Oirish newspaper columnist Ian O’Doherty wrote an article lamenting the fact that not enoughContinue Reading
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New Monument Discovered At Brú Na Bóinne
Ireland’s Brú na Bóinne (“Palace of the Bóinn”) is generally regarded as holding north-western Europe’s greatest concentration of intact prehistoric monuments withContinue Reading
France Says No – Again!
Once again the political establishment in France has shown its opposition to any recognition of the cultural rights of theContinue Reading
Wikipedia, Where The Fantasists Go To Play
Go to the Wikipedia entry titled “Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts” and you will learn that the Waffen SS, theContinue Reading
The Catalans Lead The Way!
The resurgent strength of Catalan nationalism is a political phenomenon that has taken the peoples of the Iberian Peninsula andContinue Reading
Let Them Eat Cake!
In relation to the controversial government legislation covering personal bankruptcy (the Personal Insolvency Act 2012), the transcript of the followingContinue Reading
Death Of The Irish Harp
For those interested in the psychology of art symbolism there is a great study by Mary Louise O’Donnell, of theContinue Reading
Britnat Lies, Damned Lies And Statistics
When is a poll not a poll? When it is a false poll. From Bright Green Scotland on yesterday’s stillContinue Reading
British Terrorism In Ireland – A Return To War?
At the start of the summer rumours began to circulate in media and political circles that factions of the BritishContinue Reading
Shooting Down Gaelic
A news report from Scotland on the alleged vandalism of a bilingual Scottish and English language road sign that oneContinue Reading
A Strange Twist In The Boston College Tapes Affair
I have touched before on the controversy surrounding Boston College’s “Belfast Project” and this site here gives a summation of theContinue Reading
Alan Ryan And Post-War Ireland
It’s twelve months since Alan Ryan, Officer Commanding the “Real” IRA in Dublin City, was assassinated by members of theContinue Reading
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
The latest electoral poll shows Sinn Féin on 21%, just a handful of points behind Fianna Fáil’s 25% and FineContinue Reading
The Ninth Wave
Great post from Ciarán Dunbar, journalist and editor of the news and current affairs website An Tuairisceoir, examining the issueContinue Reading
Ireland 2013 – 35 Weeks, 59 Bombs
From the 1st of January 2013 to the 28th of August 2013 a total of 59 “viable explosive devices” (orContinue Reading
Is The PQ’s Secular Charter A Vote-Winner?
Following on from my post here about the controversy surrounding suggested new regulations in Québec promoting greater secularism in theContinue Reading
Ireland’s Export-Based Economy – Emigration, Emigration, Emigration
From Middle Class Political Economist: “July 31 saw the latest release of European Union unemployment numbers, and Monday’s gross domestic productContinue Reading
Ní Bóna Ná Coróin
Pádraig Ó Laoire or Patrick O’Leary was at one time a well-known member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, an influential 19th centuryContinue Reading
Revisionism Or War By Other Means
There is huge controversy in France at the moment after it was revealed in a local newspaper that a monumentContinue Reading
Québec: Polls And Secularism
Mixed polling news from Québec where Pauline Marois’ ruling Parti Québécois has recorded a slight rise in popularity but isContinue Reading
The INLA Disbands, Again, Maybe
Jim Cusack, the security correspondent of the Irish Independent newspaper and apologist for British colonial policing in Ireland, on theContinue Reading
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