Thomas Kent And The Hatred Of The Unionist Demagogues
On a day that has witnessed a state-funeral for the disinterred remains of Thomas Kent, a fifty-year-old commandant of the Irish VolunteersContinue Reading
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A British Tank On An Irish Street
On the 13th of January 1921 a number of British soldiers manning a vehicle-checkpoint on O’Connell Bridge, the main river-crossingContinue Reading
An Inconvenient Truth Of The Irish Revolution
One of the great, populist myths on the right and far right of German politics during the 1920s and ’30s wasContinue Reading
Jeremy Corbyn, From Sinn Féin To The ANC
Kevin Meagher’s article in the left-leaning New Statesman on the anti-establishment contender for the leadership of the UK Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn,Continue Reading
Restorative Justice For The Celtic Peoples
Returning to the issue of righting old wrongs, what might be described as restorative justice for dispossessed cultures, Paula Young Lee makesContinue Reading
The Murderous Hypocrisy Of The Unionist Parties In Ireland
In many ways the conflict in the north of Ireland, the Long War or the Troubles, call it what youContinue Reading
The Reality Of Cold War Politics In The North-East Of Ireland
From 1995 to 2001 an organisation calling itself Direct Action Against Drugs, or DAAD, was involved in a series ofContinue Reading
The Colonist-Deniers Of Irish And British History
Speaking of that generation of academics, writers and journalists who have formed the core of what we might call the “colonist-deniers” ofContinue Reading
No Irish Need Apply, NINA
I’m sure that many ASF readers are aware of the research by Rebecca A. Fried, the fourteen year old AmericanContinue Reading
John Redmond MP The Gun-Loving German-Shooting Pacifist
Just after midnight on the 15th of August 1915 several armed and masked men forced their way into the London and North WesternContinue Reading
They Are Raping The Women
“Evil” is an adjective that has been much used and abused down through the years, being subject to hyperbole, partisanshipContinue Reading
American Journalism Fails The Irish Test Once Again
Kurt Eichenwald is a veteran American journalist of some thirty years standing who has specialised in everything from corporate malfeasanceContinue Reading
A’ Seinn An Aghaidh Na Balbhachd
A quick thank you to regular contributor Marconatrix for an email reminder of this 2012 video-documentary from Michael Newton, A’ Seinn an aghaidh na BalbhachdContinue Reading
Hiroshima And Nagasaki 70 Years On
By any rational appraisal the deployment of nuclear weapons against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 6th and 9th ofContinue Reading
British Reparations For British Crimes In Ireland And India
Shashi Tharoor, the noted Indian politician and author, delivers some home truths on the murderous nature of the British Empire toContinue Reading
Ireland And Catalonia, Some Historic Parallels
In the general election of December 1918 the revolutionary Irish republican and nationalist party, Sinn Féin, took 73 of theContinue Reading
Lá Lúghnasa Agus Diarmaid Ó Donnabháin Rossa
A belated happy Lá Lúghnasa to one and all as we celebrate the traditional harvest festival marking the commencement of the third quarterContinue Reading
Super Colonised Irish Syndrome
In today’s Irish Times newspaper Seaghán Mac an tSionnaigh reviews the latest in a wave of books from a new generation ofContinue Reading
Barbarians At The Gate
One of the more remarkable phenomena of modern Ireland has been the slow deculturation of the Irish people, a process ongoing since theContinue Reading
The Hooded Men, British Torture-Centres In Ireland
The Irish Times has a laudably detailed article examining the historic issue of the “Hooded Men”: Irish citizens detained by theContinue Reading
British Spies In The IRA, Myth Versus Reality
Just a quick heads-up for those who have access to the series “Twentieth Century British History” from the Oxford Journals.Continue Reading
The INLA Show Of Strength In The City Of Derry
Following the recent death of Peggy O’Hara, the veteran political activist in the city of Derry, the Irish Republican Socialist Party andContinue Reading
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