Willard Price’s Adventure Series, With Hal And Roger Hunt
Oh happy days! Well not quite, but forgive a brief moment of satisfaction following the discovery of the name –Continue Reading
Category: Internet
The Real and Fake Twitter Followers Of TheJournal.ie And George Hook
Back in March the social networking site Facebook insisted that I change my personal FB profile to a promotional FacebookContinue Reading
The Conspiracy To Impose Homo-Fascism On Ireland
Well away from public scrutiny, is this the nonsense the base of the “No” campaign is comforting itself with inContinue Reading
The Fallen Of World War II
The “Fallen of World War II” is a data-driven feature examining the human cost of the Second World War, measuring the losses incurred to otherContinue Reading
Fathers And Mothers Matter, Respect And Understanding Not So Much
We are in the last week of the referendum campaign debating the addition of a new sub-section to Bunreacht naContinue Reading
Google Ngram Viewer, Irish Republican Army, Fenian, Fenians
Judging by the positive reactions it seems that many of you have enjoyed my occasional posts highlighting the earliest occurrences of the term “Irish RepublicanContinue Reading
The Paramilitary Wing Of The CIA And The Russian Cybermilitary
Here is an interesting peek at the increasing militarisation of the Central Intelligence Agency or CIA, the premier espionage service of theContinue Reading
Facebook Sucks Balls
A quick posting to apologise to all my friends on Facebook. Unfortunately the powers-that-be have forced me to switch from holdingContinue Reading
An Online Fenian Archive From ASF
I’ve discussed my interest in utilising online resources for researching various historical topics a number of times on ASF, as can be seenContinue Reading
Secrets Of The NSA And GCHQ War On Internet Security
Just before Christmas the German news and current affairs magazine Der Spiegel published a detailed article examining the covert campaign by the UnitedContinue Reading
The CIA’s 2009 High-Value Targeting Report From Wikileaks
“Making High-Value Targeting Operations an Effective Counterinsurgency Tool (C//NF)” is the latest confidential government document to be released through Wikileaks,Continue Reading
The Gaelic Union
A new website to strengthen ties between Gaelic-speaking communities in Ireland and Scotland, as well as encouraging cultural tourism byContinue Reading
Irish Language Positive And Negative
A couple of Irish-related tech stories, one good and one bad (or at least highly suspect). Firstly from the Irish Times:Continue Reading
Ireland’s Secret Spy Courts
Following on from the revelations that Britain has spent decades monitoring as a matter of routine all telecommunications traffic inContinue Reading
I Spy eSpies On The eShore
Over the last three years I’ve touched upon Britain’s mass surveillance of Ireland’s electronic communications traffic, internal and external, a number of times. SinceContinue Reading
Chronology of Irish History 1919–1923
Over the last year I’ve been contacted by a few people enquiring if I knew anything about the disappearance of the web-basedContinue Reading
iGaeilge
In response to some comments yesterday I thought this business report from the BBC on the preference-through-necessity in Irish mediumContinue Reading
The Digital Archive of Scottish Gaelic
The first phase of Dachaigh airson Stòras na Gàidhlig or the Digital Archive of Scottish Gaelic has been completed byContinue Reading
Gamergate Or The Culture War By Other Means
If – like 99% of the planet – you have little knowledge of Western geek or gamer culture you’ll probablyContinue Reading
Tuairisc
A busy weekend behind me and an even busier week ahead so I haven’t had much time to discuss Tuairisc,Continue Reading
#VoteYes Dominates Scottish And Irish Twitterspheres
From Trends Map an incredible graphic displaying early morning tweets supporting the “Yes” and “No” sides in the Scottish referendum.Continue Reading
Tweeting For #VoteYes In The #IndyRef #Scotland
Some recent tweets by @ansionnachfionn on the #IndyRef #BritNats so desperate they referencing #DadsArmy in #IndyRef so #VoteYes for #ScottishContinue Reading
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