The Hooded Men, British Torture-Centres In Ireland
The Irish Times has a laudably detailed article examining the historic issue of the “Hooded Men”: Irish citizens detained by theContinue Reading
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Shoot-To-Kill, Britain’s Summary Executions And Assassinations In Ireland
Sometimes I do wonder if the dozens of Irish and British journalists who spent most of their careers loftily dismissingContinue Reading
The British Army’s “Tuzo Plan” Of 1972
Over on the Broken Elbow blog the veteran Irish journalist Ed Moloney has a detailed examination of the British Army’sContinue Reading
Collusion Or The Secret History Of The British “Jihad” In Ireland
One might well regard it as forty years and several hundred deaths too late but RTÉ, Ireland’s public service broadcaster, seems to haveContinue Reading
The Battle Of Pettigo And Belleek, May To June 1922
The Battle of Pettigo and Belleek in the summer of 1922 was the largest military engagement between the Irish Republican ArmyContinue Reading
Britain’s Army Of Serial Killers In Ireland
In the late 1980s and early ‘90s British terrorist groups in the north-east of Ireland began to justify their attacksContinue Reading
Pat Finucane, The Assassination Of An Irish Lawyer By British Terrorists
More on the slow unravelling of the secrecy and deception which obscured most aspects of Britain’s counter-insurgency war in Ireland from the lateContinue Reading
The So-Called Irish Press
The meaning of the English idiom “so-called” is generally given as, “So named; called by such a name, with a veryContinue Reading
No British Justice, No Irish Peace
Couple of things brought to my attention. The first is the case of Christy Walsh, a citizen of thisContinue Reading
Britain’s Tribal Grudges Risks Renewed Conflict In Ireland
The Irish have made peace but have the British? That is the question asked by veteran journalist and author EdContinue Reading
Jean McConville, Gerry Adams And The Truth
The New Yorker magazine has a long, if occasionally flawed, investigation into the 1972 detention and execution – which one can alternativelyContinue Reading
Bill O’Reilly And America’s Reporting Of The Troubles
Do you remember the days when editors and producers working in the newsrooms of New York, Washington or Los AngelesContinue Reading
Terror Breeds Terror
Following on from my brief post criticising the agenda-loaded commentary by certain media-friendly “experts” on matters military and intelligence-related, in particular theContinue Reading
Kincora Boys Home, The Scandal Britain Can’t Bury
The Kincora Boys’ Home scandal represents one of the darker aspects of Britain’s counter-insurgency war in Ireland during the lateContinue Reading
Special Forces, Special Operations, Special Rules
In a similar vein to yesterday’s post on James Fallows’ controversial critique of the United States’ military in the Atlantic magazine comes this articleContinue Reading
Military Secrets And Scandals
For those of you interested in the performance of the United States Armed Forces over the last two decades, especiallyContinue Reading
The CIA’s 2009 High-Value Targeting Report From Wikileaks
“Making High-Value Targeting Operations an Effective Counterinsurgency Tool (C//NF)” is the latest confidential government document to be released through Wikileaks,Continue Reading
Waterboarding Made In Britain
Back in June of this year Ireland’s public service broadcaster RTÉ finally got around to examining the long history ofContinue Reading
Promises Broken Are Votes Negated
Sixteen years after the signing of the Belfast Agreement, thirteen years after the “reform” of policing, seven years afterContinue Reading
New Europe Defies Old Europe
Last Thursday over 1.8 million men, women and children took to the streets of Barcelona demanding independence for Catalonia in aContinue Reading
British Violence Good, Irish Violence Bad
Perhaps I should change that headline to a more accurate one? “British Violence (By Irish People For Britain) Good, IrishContinue Reading
The Orange Order – Enough Is Enough
From 1975 to 1982 a British terrorist faction nicknamed the “Shankhill Butchers”, part of the militant UVF, carried out aContinue Reading
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