The Dirty Secrets Of A Dirty War Get Even Dirtier
In the “better late than never” category Britain’s Left-leaning newspaper, the Guardian, has published a special investigation by Ian CobainContinue Reading
Category: History
The Cló Gaelach Or Irish Typefaces
Following on from the popularity of a recent post examining some online sources for Irish literary studies I thought aContinue Reading
The Axis Of British Fundamentalism
Recently the British journalist Colin Freeman while reporting on the crisis in Iraq for the Daily Telegraph, the establishment newspaperContinue Reading
In Support Of A Reunited Brittany
In 1941 the Vichy regime in France ordered the partition of the north-western Celtic nation of Brittany as part ofContinue Reading
Electronic Irish
A lot of people seem unaware of the two best online resources for historical texts relating to Ireland, both ofContinue Reading
Nelson McCausland, The Tea Party Escapee
What other nation in Western Europe would tolerate a senior member of a regional government using his personal blog toContinue Reading
The 100th Anniversary Of The Redmondite Putsch
In June 1914 the autocratic leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party or IPP, John Redmond MP, staged something of a putsch withinContinue Reading
A Message To Scotland
When the children’s author JK Rowling announced her financial support for the anti-sovereignty side in Scotland’s forthcoming referendum on independenceContinue Reading
The Logainm Relaunch
A quick (if late) post on the Placenames Database of Ireland or Logainm, a comprehensive topographical index of our island nationContinue Reading
The Many Faces Of The Labour Party
Joan Burton, the aspirant leader of the rapidly decaying Labour Party, has loftily informed the waiting news media that sheContinue Reading
The Whole Aim Of Newspeak Is To Narrow The Range Of Thought
Colm Keena, the journalist and less-than-sympathetic biographer of Gerry Adams, has an article in the Irish Times newspaper examining theContinue Reading
British Unionism, Nationalism In Denial
In a glorious example of the Irish political rhetoric known as “whataboutery” the columnist N.R. Greer takes to the pagesContinue Reading
Paddy Ashdown, IRA Volunteer
Paddy Ashdown is a former British marine commando and intelligence officer with MI5, the ex-leader of the Liberal-Democrat party (whichContinue Reading
The Threat Of The Gaelic Ail-Caoíde
Talking of petty bigots whose anachronistic opinions are derived from centuries of colonial supremacism here comes another tirade against oneContinue Reading
The Torture Files
So the News and Current Affairs Department of RTÉ, our self-proclaimed “national broadcaster” (no sniggering, please), has suddenly become awareContinue Reading
God Damn You All
Since the days of Thomas Davis and Michael Doheny, James Stephens and Charles Kickham, the adherents of Irish Republicanism have been theContinue Reading
Support The Reunification Of Brittany!
Since the 1940s when the fascist government based in southern France partitioned Brittany into two separate administrative regions with theContinue Reading
The Responses To The Boston Tapes’ Controversy
Further to the seemingly never-ending twists of the bitter Boston Tapes controversy one of the chief participants in the project,Continue Reading
The Lia Fáil Desecrated Once Again
Two years ago I featured a report on the act of vandalism carried out against the Lia Fáil, the ancientContinue Reading
Divide Et Impera
Seriously, have people lost all sense of reality in relation to the admittedly bitter divisions within the broad Republican movement stemming fromContinue Reading
The Great Irish Paradox
From the Daily Beast: “Here in Odessa, the conflict has nothing to do with a linguistic divide. Everyone speaks Russian.Continue Reading
No Prosecutions For British Death Squad Confessions
In the early 1970s the Military Reaction Force or MRF was a covert unit of the British Army which operatedContinue Reading
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