Satanic Masses, Devil Worshippers And British Dirty War Propaganda
As we move deeper into these post-conflict (or, arguably, intra-conflict) times, am I the only one to be struck by the sheerContinue Reading
Category: Politics
Gusty Spence, In The Shadow Of A British Gunman
Speaking of the history of British separatist terrorism in Ireland, here is a recent article from Ciarán Mac Airt, author andContinue Reading
Ulster Resistance, The DUP Past That Won’t Go Away
Ulster Resistance, the paramilitary wing of Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party during the 1980s, is making the headlines once again following theContinue Reading
Anglophone Supremacism: Spurious Arguments, Factual Inaccuracies
The Language Commissioner, Rónán Ó Domhnaill, has offered a carefully worded response to an article published in last week’s Irish Examiner by the eco-conservative journalist VictoriaContinue Reading
Killing Irish-Speakers With Kindness
In light of the recent ruling by the courts that the Gardaí failed to follow the law by not producingContinue Reading
Irish Republican Jews, A Two-Part Lecture
Yanky Fachler, author and member of the Jewish Historical Society of Ireland, with an interesting two-part lecture on the contribution ofContinue Reading
David Cameron Gives Showing The Pig A Whole New Meaning
The steep-streeted town of Drogheda has offered many fine contributions to Irish culture, though perhaps none more so than an English languageContinue Reading
Britain Goes All 1970s With Threats Of Mutinies, Coups And Rebellions
Well it didn’t take long for John McDonnell, the finance spokesperson for the UK Labour Party, to walk back from hisContinue Reading
The Real Islamic State Is The Child-Crucifying Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia
As the United States and its allies (and foes) continue to dither over the expansion of ISIS/ISIL in the Syrian-Iraq borderlands andContinue Reading
O’Connell Street In Flames, 1916
On the morning of Monday the 24th of April 1916 a number of republican and nationalist organisations in Ireland, directed byContinue Reading
Thomas Kent And The Hatred Of The Unionist Demagogues
On a day that has witnessed a state-funeral for the disinterred remains of Thomas Kent, a fifty-year-old commandant of the Irish VolunteersContinue Reading
The Green Party, Taking Us For Fools
It really is our fault. Yes, you and me, and all the other fools who year after year, decade after decade,Continue Reading
CNN GOP Debate 2015
If the Fox News debate amongst the presidential candidates for the Republican Party was a pantomime of the absurd theContinue Reading
On The Anti-Colonial Struggle In Ireland Corbyn And McDonnell Are Right
The unexpected election of a progressive candidate to the leadership of the UK Labour Party, along with several like-minded colleagues, has sentContinue Reading
The Existence Of The IRA As A Guarantor Of Peace
Of the many, many tens of thousands of Irish people who have suffered hardship at the hands of the UK state inContinue Reading
Opposing Abortion Based On Fact Not On Faith
Over the last three years of writing the Sionnach Fionn blog there have been a number of subjects that have drawn vigorous responsesContinue Reading
Over One Million Catalans Rally For Independence In Barcelona
If one were to believe the recent polling in Catalonia it seemed that the country’s popular push for independence fromContinue Reading
#MyNameIs And #NINA As Facebook Claims Irish Names Are Not Real Names
Over the last several months a number of people from Ireland and the Irish diaspora have been barred from the American social networking platform,Continue Reading
Sinn Féin And Right2Water
What is the real attitude of Sinn Féin to the imposition of water charges in Ireland? Are they wholly opposed to them orContinue Reading
An Inconvenient Truth Of The Irish Revolution
One of the great, populist myths on the right and far right of German politics during the 1920s and ’30s wasContinue Reading
Native America To Native Ireland, Extermination By Any Other Name
Former libertarian favourite and would-be United States presidential candidate for the Republican Party, Rand Paul, seems to have completed hisContinue Reading
Jeremy Corbyn, From Sinn Féin To The ANC
Kevin Meagher’s article in the left-leaning New Statesman on the anti-establishment contender for the leadership of the UK Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn,Continue Reading
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