More Allegations In The Boston Tapes Controversy
The “Boston Tapes” controversy just grows murkier by the day. I’m not saying I fall on the side of theContinue Reading
Category: History
Linguicism And Linguistic Imperialism
Thanks to @MisneachNYC for a heads-up on this video from Angelica Galante of Niagara College in Canada. It makes some interesting points.
The Unionist Hand Behind The Boston Tapes?
As the fall-out from the arrest and detention of Gerry Adams TD continues to rumble on (“coinciding” with moves byContinue Reading
Bye-Bye Peace Process! Hello Orange World Order!
A terrifying report from the Guardian newspaper for anyone who knows anything about the history of modern Ireland: “David CameronContinue Reading
The Importance Of The Historical Voice
In relation to the arrest of Gerry Adams TD and the debacle surrounding the Boston College Oral History Project theContinue Reading
Sinn Féin, A Victim Of Its Own Hubris
So Gerry Adams TD, the leader of Sinn Féin, has been released after several days of detention and interrogation byContinue Reading
The Great Irish Media Cover-Up
The pretence that the media establishment in Ireland is anything other than anti-Republican in terms of its collective political ideologyContinue Reading
Féile na Bealtaine
Some appropiate links for Lá Bealtaine, traditionally the first day of summer by the indigenous calendars of the Irish, Scots and Manx (andContinue Reading
No Investigation Into 1971 British War Crime In Ireland
The government of Britain has announced its refusal to investigate the Ballymurphy Massacre of 1971, a three-day killing spree byContinue Reading
The Legacy Of Brian Bóroimhe
2014 marks a thousand years since Cath Chluain Tarbh or the Battle of Clontarf so a quick post to highlight some fantasticContinue Reading
Barack Obama, They All Look Irish To Me
President Barack Obama addressing the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Town Hall in University Malaysia, as reported by News StraitsContinue Reading
The Irish Media In Panic Mode
Reading Ireland’s national and regional newspapers the worried expectations of the media establishment that Sinn Féin and various smaller partiesContinue Reading
The Little Englanders Of The American Left
AlterNet, that online bastion of American left-wing liberalism and anti-establishment rhetoric, has an opinion piece on the attendance of SinnContinue Reading
The Fenian Flame
For decades, or indeed centuries, the British sought to criminalise the Irish Republican cause, to portray Ireland’s revolutionary movements asContinue Reading
Yahoo News And The Murder Advocates
Can someone explain to me how Yahoo News can permit comments by its readers advocating the murder of a well-known political figureContinue Reading
A Tale Of Two Languages
Kate Fennell in the Irish Times examining the Basque Country and the successful struggle for language rights in that IberianContinue Reading
Ireland’s British Rebels
Once again it takes an Irish journalist working in a foreign newspaper to write what the Irish press would neverContinue Reading
Five Thousand March For Irish Rights In Belfast
Last Saturday up to five thousand people took part in An Lá Dearg i mBéal Feirste, a march through theContinue Reading
Generation Shame
One of the great puzzles of modern Ireland, and certainly an endless source of fascination for foreign observers ofContinue Reading
Europe’s Democratic Tide
Quick post to highlight a couple of interesting articles touching upon Scotland’s independence campaign, the first from Conn Hallinan atContinue Reading
Negationists Ahoy!
So that tired old spy/informer/traitor of yore, Seán O’Callaghan, is back peddling his same tired old “analyses” of political andContinue Reading
No Aboriginal Culture In Trinity College, Please!
Sir John Pentland Mahaffy GBE CVO, the late 19th and early 20th century Anglo-Irish classicist, was one of the mostContinue Reading
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