The Excusers And Apologists For The Bloody Sunday Massacre Are Still With Us
At the tail end of last year the former British army commander turned security “expert”, Tim Collins, writing in Britain’s conservative SundayContinue Reading
Category: History
Irish And Celtic Origins In The Late Bronze Age
At the end of last year I discussed the publication of a research paper analysing the ancient DNA remains of a number of individuals whoContinue Reading
John Redmond MP, The Historical Man And The Revisionist Myth
In recent days we have witnessed the bizarre spectacle of Dublin city council erecting a 1916-2016 centenary banner at theContinue Reading
The New Rockstars Need A Lesson In History And Geography
The pretentiously-named geek website, The New Rockstars (“What The Internet Cares About Right ****ing Now!”. By which they mean maleContinue Reading
TG4 Documentary, “Sheehy-Skeffington: Pacifist”
On Tuesday March 8th, at 9:30 pm, TG4 will be broadcasting a documentary on Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, one of the forgotten figures of theContinue Reading
An Elvish Alphabet Is Not A Gaelic Alphabet
From a report on the position of the Scottish Gaelic language in Nova Scotia, published by the Metro News CanadaContinue Reading
Was A Serial Rapist And Child Killer A British Spy In Ireland?
It’s an uncomfortable truism of the human condition that sociopaths are made, not born, and the life and death ofContinue Reading
Baron Roman Nikolai Maximilian Von Ungern-Sternberg
The Atlantic has a fascinating article on a little known, early 20th century warlord who once terrified Mongolia and neighbouringContinue Reading
Bessie Coleman
Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman was a young pilot of Native- and African-American descent who became something of a minor press sensation in the United StatesContinue Reading
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
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
Dublin, Easter 1916, Their Sympathies Were With The Rebels
I’ve made reference before to one of the great myths of the Easter Rising of 1916. That is, the absence ofContinue Reading
Swimming To Cambodia
Many years ago, discouraged by the need to go to school the next day, and unable to read, let aloneContinue Reading
The African-American And Irish Civil Rights Movements
From NBC News, an article by Chandra Thomas Whitfield examining the influence of the African-American civil rights movement on its IrishContinue 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
More On The Artist Seaghán Mac Cathmhaoil Or John P. Campbell
My post yesterday on an eyewitness account of the Easter Rising of 1916, published some three months after the insurrection by the NewContinue 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
An Irish Girl Rebel And The American Poet Joyce Kilmer
I thought some readers of An Sionnach Fionn might be interested in this interview, originally published in The New YorkContinue 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
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
Majority Of Irish DNA May Have Originated In The Middle East And Eastern Europe
I’m sure some of you may have seen the recent flurry of articles in the national and international press highlightingContinue Reading
The Neo-Celtic Architectural Revival That Wasn’t
Most observers agree that the applicability of the term “Celtic architecture” is largely a matter of perception since no such tradition of buildingContinue Reading
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