Tory MP Priti Patel: UK Should Use Threat Of Food Shortages To Pressure Ireland
Priti Patel, the United Kingdom’s former Secretary of State for International Development, has urged London to use the threat ofContinue Reading
Tag: An Gorta Mór – The Great Famine
A Failure Of Irish Government And Irish Politics As 10,000 Left Homeless
How on earth has Ireland’s politics come to this? Degenerated so deeply that a sizeable body of elected representatives canContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar’s Full Speech To The Choctaw Nation On Behalf Of Ireland
On Tuesday the 23rd of March 1847, members of the indigenous Choctaw Nation in the populous region of Skullyville, Oklahoma,Continue Reading
Saint Patrick’s Day Belongs To The Global Irish, Past And Present
On this Saint Patrick’s Day, that most American of Irish festivals, I don’t think I can surpass the thoughts andContinue Reading
The Irish Famine Of 1925
These are the people, the right-wing Nationalist forces, that initiated and won the counter-revolutionary civil war of 1921-23 and thisContinue Reading
Even Genocide Has An Upside!
Just when I thought I had reached a stage where it was no longer possible to be made irate byContinue Reading
Righting A Wrong Simply Because It Is The Right Thing To Do
Two vastly contrasting stories that ultimately derive from the same history of invasion, occupation, annexation and colonisation. The first dealsContinue Reading
Turning A Mass Grave Into A Food Court – The Immorality Of Modern Ireland
Talking of queens let us remember the Famine Queen herself and this story featured by the excellent Irish History Podcast. The headline saysContinue Reading
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