British Hacks Turn “Black And Tan” For 2014!
Is it me or have we finally seen the dropping of the British Unionist mask to reveal the English NationalismContinue Reading
Category: Politics
Qualified Condemnations Of Attempted Murder Ring Hollow
A few days ago I reported on the attempted murder in East Belfast of an 18 year old Irish teenager, James Turley,Continue Reading
The Partition Of Scotland?
Well, the Scottish leader Alex Salmond came to town for the Irish-British Council summit yesterday and hit all the right notesContinue Reading
British Ethnic Terrorists In Ireland – Still At War?
While in recent months the main focus of the national and international news media has been on the actions of Resistance Republicans, variousContinue Reading
Concubhar Ó Liatháin Deals With His Critics
Following on from my piece examining the criticism of TG4 by Concubhar Ó Liatháin over the airing of a new documentary series, Mná anContinue Reading
Brittany And Cornwall – The Return Of The Celtic Nations
A late post on some news from December of last year as the Celtic League carries a story with major implicationsContinue Reading
The SNP, Scotland And The Ireland Scenario
Has the British Prime Minster David Cameron hit the self-destruct button on the so-called United Kingdom? The legalistic diktats fromContinue Reading
EU And IMF Policy In Ireland – To Hell Or To Canada!
Though the figures are still being compiled it seems that 2010-2011 saw around 150,000 people emigrate from Ireland, roughly 80,000Continue Reading
100,000 March For Repatriation Of Basque Political Prisoners
One hundred thousand Basques marched in the city of Bilbao on Saturday demanding the repatriation of Basque political prisoners to their homeland,Continue Reading
Silent Voices
Concubhar Ó Liatháin, an Irish journalist and blogger, editor of the now closed Lá Nua newspaper, and presently a member ofContinue Reading
Have You Seen The Size Of My Gun?!
The “Oirish” Daily Mirror carries an eye-grabbing headline: “We could have killed the Queen on Ireland visit, claim Real IRA”Continue Reading
Horrible Histories With The Sunday Independent
The Irish Independent’s pet “historian”, John Paul McCarthy, has written a lengthy article on some of the behind-the-scenes events relating to theContinue Reading
Fighting For The Truth
There is a letter in The Irish Times from a host of Irish civil rights campaigners, journalists, businesspeople, academics and student leaders protesting theContinue Reading
RTÉ Should Be TG4 – And Here’s Why
Lecturer and author Niamh Hourigan discusses TG4, the Irish language television channel, in the Irish Times with some interesting, if debatable, points:Continue Reading
A Sticky Situation
In the Irish Times Mick Heaney asks whether the takeover of RTÉ’s news and current affairs department in the 1970s and ‘80s by aContinue Reading
Dissent In The Ranks?
According to a piece by Henry McDonald in the Belfast Telegraph the Resistance Republicans of CIRA, RIRA and ÓnaÉ (who remain committed to theContinue Reading
Plaid Cymru – Time For Progressive Nationalism?
In an article for WalesOnline former Plaid Cymru minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas asks the question that hangs over the Welsh nationalistContinue Reading
Cymdeithas Yr Iaith Gymraeg At 50
2012 is the 50th anniversary of the founding of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg (the Welsh Language Society) and The Penny Post carries a seriesContinue Reading
A Year Of The French
There is an interesting series of articles, in French, on the status of the Irish language in the North ofContinue Reading
A Trail Of Tears – Native American History Resonates For An Irish Audience
One of the leading online publications for news on the indigenous communities of the United Sates and Canada is the thirty-year old IndianContinue Reading
Rising Boats, Trickle Down Economics And The Politics Of Regression
Another entry for my “Only In Ireland” series, this time thanks to Fine Gael’s Brian Hayes TD, with an entirelyContinue Reading
Aboriginal Sensitivities
In May 2011 the New Democratic Party (NDP), the perennial also-rans of Canadian politics, shocked the body politic and muchContinue Reading
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