Land Restitution – More News From The Occupied Territories
An excellent article in the Guardian by Dana Lone Hill of the Oglala Lakota Sioux people outlining the campaign byContinue Reading
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An Ghaeltacht – Empowering The Young
“24 hours in An Ghaeltacht” is a very positive story from Úna Mullally in the Irish Times on the “ritesContinue Reading
The Young Ancestors
Excellent article over on Indian Country Today on a new documentary, The Young Ancestors, which examines the efforts of NativeContinue Reading
“An tOglach The Official Organ of the Irish Volunteers” from October 21 1921
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Fascinating piece of history this , the October 21st 1921 issue of “An t-Ógláċ The Official…
Jamie Bevan, An Inspirational Fighter For A Welsh Wales
Back in August of last year I reported on the show trial of the Welsh rights activist Jamie Bevan whoContinue Reading
Greater England – King Cnut Before The Tide
The Royal Jubilee and the London Olympics have saved Greater England! The rebellious Scots have been dealt a mortal blowContinue Reading
From Ireland To Scotland – The Colonial Infection
It says much, perhaps, for the power of colonialism that so many inhabitants of so many colonised or formerly colonisedContinue Reading
Team FUK (Former UK, That Is!)
Melanie Phillips, right wing British journalist and commentator, nationalist and agent provocateur, has finally called it. The British colonial misadventureContinue Reading
Castle Catholics And Sham Irish – Journalism In Ireland
As regular readers of An Sionnach Fionn know (and it seems that there is quite a few of you) IContinue Reading
The Election Campaign In Québec – The Expected And Unexpected
Last Wednesday Jean Charest, the head of the beleaguered Liberal Party government in Québec, called early provincial elections for September 4th amid a seriesContinue Reading
The Irish National Invincibles And The Phoenix Park Assassinations
The Irish Story features a fascinating and long overdue reappraisal of the famous Phoenix Park Assassinations, the 1882 killing ofContinue Reading
PQ Back In Power In Québec?
With new elections to the provincial assembly in Québec expected soon the Globe and Mail carries what it claims willContinue Reading
A Long Overdue Statement
Forty years too late for an event that should never have happened in the first place. Whatever the excuses (and there were – and are – plenty)Continue Reading
IRA, CIRA And ÓnaÉ
Following on from my article about the claimed merger of several Republican Resistance groups to form a new Irish RepublicanContinue Reading
Scottish Nationalist And Labour Party Activist?
Now this is interesting. From The Scotsman: “LABOUR chiefs say a rebellion among its grassroots members in favour of independenceContinue Reading
Why Does Fine Gael And Labour Want Irish-Speakers To Be Second-Class Citizens With Second-Class Rights?
Well as the Fine Gael – Labour coalition government continues to pursue its policy of rolling back a decade ofContinue Reading
A New IRA?
Well, given the rumours and rumblings, and perhaps not unrelated to the recent shooting of a (former?) prominent member of the 32 County Sovereignty CommitteeContinue Reading
The Oirish Independent Spins Itself Dizzy
The Oirish Independent presents the perfect example of how to spin a story to match a set political agenda. InContinue Reading
Bigot’s Day Out
There’s a nicely paranoid opinion piece in today’s Oirish Independent newspaper attacking Ireland’s Irish-speaking citizens. Why? For daring to speakContinue Reading
The English Republic Of Ireland
More news on the dramatic walk-out from Dáil Éireann by Opposition parties in protest at the Fine Oibre coalition’s attemptContinue Reading
Get Up, Stand Up, Stand Up For Your Rights
For once an Sionnach Fionn is speechless. Someone has actually stood up for the civil rights of Ireland’s Irish-speaking communities andContinue Reading
The Final Solution To The Irish Problem
Well it would seem that the anglophone supremacists driving the anti-Irish agenda in Fine Gael and the Labour Party areContinue Reading
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