No, Declan! You Never Go Full Tinfoil Hat!
Declan Lynch, regular Sunday Independent columnist, drinks deep from the paranoid well of the partitionist core, before rushing to the battlements of Dublin Castle,Continue Reading
Category: Journalism
The IRA’s Assassination Of The American Leader Of A British Death Squad In Ireland
The Daily Beast, under a typically sensationalist headline, “Why Did The IRA Assassinate This American?“, details in a rather selective manner theContinue Reading
Andrew O’Hehir On The 1916 Easter Rising
I regularly lambaste American journalists on ASF for their piss-poor knowledge of Ireland and its history, a phenomenon made worse by someContinue Reading
The New World Panama Order
Like some mad conspiracy theory from the outer reaches of the world wide web the revelations relating to the Panama-based law firm, Mossack Fonseca, have explodedContinue Reading
Rachel Maddow On The Politics Of Abortion
Apologies to the offended but I find myself in broad agreement with this insightful, and bluntly honest, assessment of theContinue Reading
The Great Betrayal Of Ireland’s Counter-Revolution
Back in 2014 I wrote about the “Great Betrayal”, the abandonment of an all-Ireland republic, an all-Ireland revolution, and anContinue Reading
The New York Times Argues That The Irish Are Actually British
The New York Times has published an extraordinary opinion piece by the writer, Barry Kennerk, on the significance of the centenaryContinue Reading
Michael Ware On The Iraq War And The Islamic State
These two interviews with the Australian war correspondent, Michael Ware, highlighting his traumatic experiences reporting on the conflict in Iraq, nowContinue Reading
The Excusers And Apologists For The Bloody Sunday Massacre Are Still With Us
At the tail end of last year the former British army commander turned security “expert”, Tim Collins, writing in Britain’s conservative SundayContinue Reading
#Jacobin1916 Launch 19.03.2016
On Saturday, March 19th 2016, an Irish edition of Jacobin Magazine will be launched in Liberty Hall, Dublin. The issue willContinue Reading
Averil Power, Muire Na nGael
From the tabloid news and current affairs website, The Journal, a brief puff-piece reporting on RTÉ’s “Sunday With Miriam” radio show whereContinue Reading
Eoghan Harris: L’état C’est Moi!
Is there anyone who believes more in the preternatural abilities of the newspaper polemicist Eoghan Harris than Eoghan Harris himself?Continue Reading
An Elvish Alphabet Is Not A Gaelic Alphabet
From a report on the position of the Scottish Gaelic language in Nova Scotia, published by the Metro News CanadaContinue Reading
Fergus Crawford And Mary Lou McDonald, Or The 1% Attacks The 99%
On Friday morning the Sinn Féin vice-president, Mary Lou McDonald, was confronted by a self-styled “concerned citizen” on O’Connell Street inContinue Reading
Armed Republicans Do Not Have 1.5 Tonnes Of Semtex-H
Reinforce the Ring of Steel! Deploy the SAS on the streets! Wrap Big Ben in cotton wool! The breakaway factionsContinue Reading
The British SAS And The Exploding Heads Of The Islamic State In Syria
Ah, war stories. They grow with every telling. To wit, take this tale of daring-do from battle-torn Syria where Britain’sContinue Reading
The Continuity IRA And Other Journalistic Nonsense
Following on from last Friday’s gun attack at a sporting event in Dublin’s Regency Hotel, which left one man deadContinue Reading
Feed The Rich, Eat The Poor
As many of you will be aware the would-be Democratic Party candidate for the US presidency, Bernie Sanders, has been hammering downContinue Reading
Britnat Nastiness Is Mainstream In The UK Press
Merryn Somerset Webb is a relatively well-known business journalist and editor in the UK who writes on a wide range of financial matters for theContinue Reading
Dear Idiots, Stop, Please, Just Stop Commenting On Irish Affairs
The Inquisitr is an Israeli-American news aggregation website (or more honestly, a user-submitted group blog) and based on a recent feature article byContinue Reading
Donald Trump, Gerry Adams And The US Media’s British Blind Spot
When the American news and current affairs website, the Daily Beast, needs a reporter to write a piece on Donald Trump’sContinue Reading
The British Army In Ireland: Murder, Mayhem And Madness
From the legendary investigative journalist, Duncan Campbell, a series of articles written for the New Statesman magazine in May 1984, describingContinue Reading
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