Irish Folk Band, Lynched
I’ve been meaning to write something about the ridiculously talented Irish folk group, Lynched, for some time; fortunately Britain’s GuardianContinue Reading
Tag: Dublin
1916 Is Over And The Good Guys Won
Every year, on the 11th of November, hundreds of far right and neo-fascist campaigners in France, including the former leader of the Front national,Continue Reading
O’Connell Street In Flames, 1916
On the morning of Monday the 24th of April 1916 a number of republican and nationalist organisations in Ireland, directed byContinue Reading
Thomas Kent And The Hatred Of The Unionist Demagogues
On a day that has witnessed a state-funeral for the disinterred remains of Thomas Kent, a fifty-year-old commandant of the Irish VolunteersContinue Reading
The Green Party, Taking Us For Fools
It really is our fault. Yes, you and me, and all the other fools who year after year, decade after decade,Continue Reading
A British Tank On An Irish Street
On the 13th of January 1921 a number of British soldiers manning a vehicle-checkpoint on O’Connell Bridge, the main river-crossingContinue Reading
Uaigh Éadaoine, Éadaoin’s Grave, Hill Of Howth
Ceann Bhinn Éadair or Howth Head is the suburbanised peninsula overlooking the northern half of Dublin Bay, a headland that is geographically dominatedContinue Reading
Fianna Fáil, A Party Without A Cause
My family has been dwelling in Dublin city and its environs since the mid-1800s, part of the mass rural exodusContinue Reading
Up To 80,000 Protest Imposition Of Water Charges
In light of recent improved polling members and supporters of the governing Fine Gael and Labour Party coalition were predicting aContinue Reading
John Bruton. Why?
John Bruton, former Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach na hÉireann, writing in the Irish Independent newspaper manages once again to proveContinue Reading
Bog-Standard Houses And The Neo-Ascendancy
Fitzjames Horse casts a cold eye over the so-called New Land League and it’s risible championing of the property-rights of millionaireContinue Reading
Leo Dowling 08.01.1923
The background to the execution by firing squad of Leo Dowling, carried out by the Irish Free State regime inContinue Reading
The Walking Gaels, Not So Dead After All
The anglophone supremacists who influence so much of Ireland’s ideologically incestuous news media insist that Irish is a “dead language”. No one, they confidently assert, speaks, reads orContinue Reading
Rallies, Demonstrations And The Numbers War
30,000 or 100,000? That is the politically crucial question in relation to the numbers of people who attended yesterday’s massiveContinue Reading
Ireland Third Most Deprived Nation On EU 15 List
The Irish news media has spent much of the last week focusing on the issue of homelessness following the dreadfully sad passing ofContinue Reading
The Popular Armed Struggle
During the 20th and 21st centuries many myths have taken root in popular culture concerning insurgencies and counter-insurgencies. Received wisdom, oftContinue Reading
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
I’m not quite sure if the political establishment in Ireland is embarrassed, ashamed or terrified by the 2016 centenary of theContinue Reading
Slut-Shaming Maíria Cahill Is Not A Republican Response
So the controversy in relation to the allegations made by 33 year old Maíria Cahill, a former national secretary ofContinue Reading
Tuairisc
A busy weekend behind me and an even busier week ahead so I haven’t had much time to discuss Tuairisc,Continue Reading
Over 50,000 Protest Water Taxes
Last Wednesday I suggested that the imposition of water charges at the behest of the IMF-EU-ECB could do for theContinue Reading
The Scandal Of The 1916 Battlefield Quarter
As Dublin City Council continues to debate and prevaricate over saving what is left of the capital’s 1916 Battlefield QuarterContinue Reading
Right2Water Demonstration, Saturday 11th October 2014
Last week I touched upon the new Troika-imposed water-tax that it is being rolled out across the country by the FineContinue Reading
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