The Dignitatis Humanae Institute: Clergy, Aristocrats And The Populist-Right?
My first introduction to the secretive lobby group known as the Dignitatis Humanae Institute (DHI) was back in the summerContinue Reading
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The Story Of The Ark Before Noah, From Sumer To Babylonia To Israel
The Judeo-Christian myth of a small group of select men and women surviving a primordial deluge to repopulate the worldContinue Reading
The Church Of Scientology Is Trying To Normalise Itself In Irish Society. Don’t Let It!
In recent years the covert growth of the pseudo-religious organisation known as the Church of Scientology has been delivered a seriesContinue Reading
Arm Na Poblachta, Army Of The Republic, Reveals Its Anti-Armour Capacity
The term Irish Republican Army (IRA) – or more rarely, Army of the Irish Republic – entered the modern politicalContinue Reading
Gerry Adams On The Legitimacy Of The IRA’s Armed Resistance
An interesting snippet from an interview with the Sinn Féin president and Louth TD, Gerry Adams, recorded in July atContinue Reading
Holy Wells And A Proposed Hill Of Tara National Monument And Park
The monumental landscape around Teamhair na Rí or the Hill of Tara in County Meath features several springs closely associatedContinue Reading
The Illogicality Of Being Pro-Life While Favouring Exceptions For Abortion
As WorldByStorm notes there are some surprising results from last weekend’s Irish Times poll on abortion (yes, yet another one). A clearContinue Reading
Happy Christmas Me Arse, I’d Rather Be Dead
Christmas is my least favourite time of the year, bar the urine-scented test of patience that is Saint Patrick’s Day. EvenContinue Reading
The Winter Solstice At Brú na Bóinne Or Newgrange
Today’s winter solstice in the northern hemisphere has been marked by the now traditional sunrise ceremony at the 5000 year old burialContinue Reading
Historical Revisionism In Early Irish And Celtic Studies
Following on from my post highlighting the formerly fractious debates in the cloistered world of prehistoric and Medieval Irish and Celtic studies,Continue Reading
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The Nativist And Revisionist Approaches To Celtic Mythology Find A Hybrid Balance
I regularly scan the internet for new books or articles examining Medieval Irish literature, particularly those discussing the possible religious beliefs of the pre-ChristianContinue Reading
Hillary Clinton, The Spirit Cooking Satanist Candidate For President!
Just when you think that the US presidential election has reached its absolute nadir, that there are no further levels of insanity thatContinue Reading
Burning A Changeling, Bridget Cleary And The Good People
The Australian fiction author, Hannah Kent, whose debut historical novel, “Burial Rites“, was published to critical acclaim in 2013 is currently promotingContinue Reading
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Crom Cruach, The Dark God Of The Burial Mound
A guest post by Megas Begadonos of the website, Unchaining the Titan, reinterpreting for a modern audience the Medieval Irish figure of Crom Cruach,Continue Reading
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Casting The Women Of Ireland Beyond The Ninth Wave: We Face This Land
Ireland’s indigenous literature has long regarded the ninth wave, reputedly the outermost one surrounding the shoreline of the country, as a supernatural boundary. When the invadingContinue Reading
Ze’ev Jabotinsky: The Iron Wall – We and the Arabs
On the 4th of November 1923 the Jewish-Russian newspaper Rassvet (“Dawn”) published a short essay by the conservative Zionist writer Ze’ev JabotinskyContinue Reading
Danny Healy-Rae, A Special Kind Of Stupid
Independent TD, Danny Healy-Rae, living proof if ever there was one that evolution is not always a forward moving process, has staged anotherContinue Reading
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Who Were The Celts?
I recently purchased a copy of “Celtic from the West 2“, the follow-up volume to “Celtic from the West“, the 2012Continue Reading
The Four Jewels Or Treasures Of The Tuatha Dé Danann
The Leabhar Gabhála Éireann or “Book of the Taking of Ireland” is a Medieval collection of poems and prose narratives purporting toContinue Reading
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Bealtaine Or Céadshamhain, Just Enjoy!
Sunset on the last day of April, May Eve or Oíche Bealtaine, is the traditional start of the Irish and pan-Gaelic festival of BealtaineContinue Reading
Abortion Prohibitionists Choose To Victim Blame Women And Girls
There are people of both genders around the world who oppose the provision of clinical abortion services to women for aContinue Reading
The British SAS And The Exploding Heads Of The Islamic State In Syria
Ah, war stories. They grow with every telling. To wit, take this tale of daring-do from battle-torn Syria where Britain’sContinue Reading
