The End Of Gaelscéal?
Foras na Gaeilge, the government body charged with overseeing the state’s Irish language policies (such as they are), has unexpectedly announced thatContinue Reading
Category: Politics
Inside The IRA – 1994
How things have changed in the last 19 years – and how much they have stayed the same. In 1994Continue Reading
There’s No Irish In Ireland!
The Hidden Ireland blog highlights news of discrimination against the Irish-speaking communities and citizens of Ireland for their English-speaking peersContinue Reading
Unionists Do Not Use Political Violence – Really They Don’t
The main political representatives of the British Unionist minority in the north-east of Ireland, the DUP, UUP and TUV, have no involvementContinue Reading
Open Unionism – More Like An Open Goal
Apparently I’m an “Irish ethno-nationalist”. At least that is the opinion of the British nationalist website “Open Unionism“ (if everContinue Reading
US Army Training Circular TC 18-01, Special Forces Unconventional Warfare
Thought some of you might be interested in this given the recent events in Libya, Syria and now Mali. TheContinue Reading
Britain’s War In Ireland – Learning The Lessons
The Irish journalist and author Finian Cunningham examines the conflict in the north-east of Ireland during the late 1960s andContinue Reading
The McGurk Bar Massacre – British Bombers In Irish Cities
Two reviews of the ground-breaking investigative book “The McGurk’s Bar Bombing: Collusion, Cover–Up and a Campaign for Truth” by the Irish author and campaigner CiaránContinue Reading
Alliance. A Party In Search Of A Future
There is a certain whiff that comes off a political party when it is in trouble. People start to getContinue Reading
Counter-Gangs – The Origins Of British Terrorism In Ireland
I’ve devoted considerable space on An Sionnach Fionn to cataloguing Britain’s dirty war in Ireland highlighting a wide range of evidence gatheredContinue Reading
Polls, Politics And Conspiracy Theories
One weekend, two polls, and the results look good for both Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin. However things are notContinue Reading
Dolours Price
Just a quick post to note the passing of Dolours Price, veteran Republican activist and a former Volunteer of theContinue Reading
Irish, Irish, Irish! Out, Out, Out!
Well, it’s politics as abnormal in the north-eastern part of the country as the decaying corpse of the British colonyContinue Reading
Indigenous Rights – On The Edge Of Europe
Two stories on the Celtic languages from the British press. The first comes from the Independent newspaper (thanks to a heads-up from CContinue Reading
Sláintegate – The Irish Independent Newspaper And A Mysterious Report
The journalist and Irish civil rights campaigner Peadar Tomás Mac Ruairí is currently battling the state in the High CourtContinue Reading
Democracy Doesn’t Work – So Speaks Unionism
From the cheeky lads at “Loyalists Against Democracy” the image above details local government rules in “Northern Ireland” during theContinue Reading
Jenny Muir Quits The British Labour Grouping In The North
A minor political event which has probably passed most observers by. Jenny Muir, long-time left-wing Belfast blogger and would-be BritishContinue Reading
That Infamous Nolan Show
Well a lot of people have been discussing last night’s highly controversial Nolan Show from the BBC in Belfast which debated the anti-democracy protests by the extreme ofContinue Reading
Lessons From The First Chechen War
For military analysts like myself the two most interesting conflicts of the last twenty years have been the First Chechen War of 1994-1996Continue Reading
The SWP, Idle No More And The Basque Country
A recent busy week has meant that a number of interesting stories have passed by without comment. From me atContinue Reading
The Ballot-Box And Petrol-Bomb – Unionism In Action
The best of British – in Ireland.
The Violence Of The British Anti-Democrats In Ireland
Well the worse weekend yet of rioting and violent attacks by anti-democracy protesters from the British Unionist monitory in the north-east ofContinue Reading
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