American Reporting On Ireland Plays Like An Episode Of The Sons Of Anarchy
As feared the short piece on the Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams by 60 Minutes, the primetime current affairs show for the CBSContinue Reading
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Gerry Adams, CBS’ 60 Minutes And The Journalism Of Stereotype
I’ve stated before on ASF that the vast majority of “Western” career journalists don’t know their arse from their elbow whenContinue Reading
British-Backed Separatists In Ireland’s Ulster Region Renew Offensive
A chilling interview in the Daily Beast with “Big John”, a notorious commander with the British separatist militias in the north-east ofContinue Reading
Independent News And Media, The Ideological Enemy Within
During the revolutionary period in Ireland – by academic convention the six years from 1916 to 1921 – the British government authorised the official execution of forty-one Irish RepublicanContinue Reading
Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, The Unconquered And Unconquerable
By anyone’s standards the Irish revolutionary Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa was a remarkable human being. Born into a peasant family in theContinue Reading
Risking The Ire Of Outlander Fans
Scottish blogger Tocasaid has cast a cold eye over the Anglo-American television adaptation of the genre-defying Outlander books by Diana Gabaldon, and drawnContinue Reading
Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie
Quick post to highlight two related articles from Tom’s Dispatch that I think are well worth reading. The first, by NanContinue Reading
30 Years On And Britain Maintains The Kincora Boys Home Cover-Up
In my last post highlighting the demands from campaigners in Ireland that the British authorities in the north-east of the countryContinue Reading
Iran Emerges From The US War On Terror As A Regional Superpower
One of the more interesting if unintended outcomes of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 has been the elevationContinue Reading
Jean McConville, Gerry Adams And The Truth
The New Yorker magazine has a long, if occasionally flawed, investigation into the 1972 detention and execution – which one can alternativelyContinue Reading
Tiocfaidh Ár Phéig!
Author Sara Baume writing in the Irish Times: “There are plenty of arguments against the inclusion of Sayers inContinue Reading
Bill O’Reilly And America’s Reporting Of The Troubles
Do you remember the days when editors and producers working in the newsrooms of New York, Washington or Los AngelesContinue Reading
Terror Breeds Terror
Following on from my brief post criticising the agenda-loaded commentary by certain media-friendly “experts” on matters military and intelligence-related, in particular theContinue Reading
Síle Na gCrann
Remarkable the things one can find in nature when one is out an’ about. However, can anyone else see it?Continue Reading
The Proto-Indo-European Urheimat
I know that quite a few ASF readers share my interest in the historical origins of the Indo-European peoples butContinue Reading
Kincora Boys Home, The Scandal Britain Can’t Bury
The Kincora Boys’ Home scandal represents one of the darker aspects of Britain’s counter-insurgency war in Ireland during the lateContinue Reading
Old Gods In New Settings
Here’s an article from Vice magazine on the Ásatrúarfélagið movement in Iceland that I meant to highlight a few weeksContinue Reading
Leo Dowling 08.01.1923
The background to the execution by firing squad of Leo Dowling, carried out by the Irish Free State regime inContinue Reading
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Celtic Cosmology, Perspectives from Ireland and Scotland
Over the last two decades relatively few studies have been published analysing the cosmological traditions of the Celtic-speaking peoples, atContinue Reading
Partition Is Wrong In Ukraine But Right In Ireland?
Apparently ethno-religious separatists carving off regions of clearly defined national territories through violence and the threat of violence, withContinue Reading
The United States’ Perpetual Groundhog Day
The team at Tom’s Dispatch have done another excellent job of highlighting the seemingly perpetual nature of the United States’ military misadventures in theContinue Reading
The Monster Raving Loony Unionist Party
In the second decade of the 21st century the British people as a whole have little interest and even lessContinue Reading
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