Mick Wallace, Enda Kenny, Not Mincing Words
On one of the very rare days dedicated to the use of the Irish language in Dáil Éireann the controversial independent TD Mick WallaceContinue Reading
Category: Politics
Jean McConville, Gerry Adams And The Truth
The New Yorker magazine has a long, if occasionally flawed, investigation into the 1972 detention and execution – which one can alternativelyContinue Reading
Al Jadeed, Rima Karaki And Running The Show
Al Jadeed or الجديد is a 24-hour news and current affairs television station based in the Lebanon and broadcasting across theContinue Reading
From Armchair Revolutionary To Armchair Reactionary
Continuing the controversy surrounding the legal tussles over the “bog-standard” mansion of Gorse Hill, situated in the exclusive Dublin suburb of Killiney,Continue Reading
Irish-Speakers Are Second-Class Europeans
In May of 2014 the Sinn Féin member and Irish rights campaigner Liadh Ní Riada was elected to the European ParliamentContinue Reading
Bog-Standard Houses And The Neo-Ascendancy
Fitzjames Horse casts a cold eye over the so-called New Land League and it’s risible championing of the property-rights of millionaireContinue Reading
Sinn Féin And The United States
It’s party conference time in Ireland and the two governing coalition partners, Fine Gael and Labour, have just ended theirContinue Reading
Terror Breeds Terror
Following on from my brief post criticising the agenda-loaded commentary by certain media-friendly “experts” on matters military and intelligence-related, in particular theContinue Reading
Stoking The Fires Of Hate
Conservative journalist and current Irish Independent columnist Sarah Carey has spent much of her career railing against the “national language”Continue Reading
People Are Made Radical, Not Born Radical
Paul Beaver is a veteran British defence journalist and member of the ultra-conservative Henry Jackson Society who has been regularly sought outContinue Reading
Speak White
Canada’s National Post newspaper, a staunchly federalist (aka. “Unionist”) publication, carries a typically angry tirade by the writer and presenterContinue Reading
Slut-Shaming Irish-Speakers
The so-called “politicised nature” of the Irish language is one of the rhetorical weapons brandished by English language diatribists in Ireland every time ourContinue Reading
Decolonization Begins With One Word
From Vice Magazine, the campaign by Native Australian communities to reassert their cultural, linguistic and territorial rights: “On February 9,Continue Reading
Coalition Loyalists Are Rewarded While Protesters Are Imprisoned
In the first half of 2011 Enda Kenny’s self-proclaimed “democratic revolution” brought his centre-right Fine Gael party to power inContinue Reading
Unleash The Dogs Of Policing
Is it safe to comment on political matters in contemporary Ireland if one lacks the fig-leaf protection that comes withContinue Reading
Kincora Boys Home, The Scandal Britain Can’t Bury
The Kincora Boys’ Home scandal represents one of the darker aspects of Britain’s counter-insurgency war in Ireland during the lateContinue Reading
Leo Dowling 08.01.1923
The background to the execution by firing squad of Leo Dowling, carried out by the Irish Free State regime inContinue Reading
All-Ireland Majority Support For Irish Language State Services
A new all-Ireland poll has found that majorities both nationally and regionally support the provision of public services in theContinue Reading
25000 Protest Galician Language Rights
A short post to note last Sunday’s demonstration in Santiago de Compostela, the capital of the Iberian region of Galicia,Continue Reading
It Seems That Bigotry Unites As Well As Divides
Continuing with the controversies that have arisen in the eastern Scottish region of Fife where British nationalist politicians from the main UnionistContinue Reading
Putting The Irish Language Down
For the last three years I have argued that when it comes to the linguistic and cultural rights of theContinue Reading
The English Empire Strikes Back In Scotland
Following on from yesterday’s post examining press reports that Dundee City Council had agreed to reverse efforts to place the EnglishContinue Reading
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