Jeremy Corbyn And The Self-Deluding British Press
Watching the right-wing and nationalist press in the UK gnashing its teeth at the thoughts of left-wing MP, Jeremy Corbyn,Continue Reading
Tag: Gerry Adams
American Reporting On Ireland Plays Like An Episode Of The Sons Of Anarchy
As feared the short piece on the Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams by 60 Minutes, the primetime current affairs show for the CBSContinue Reading
Gerry Adams, CBS’ 60 Minutes And The Journalism Of Stereotype
I’ve stated before on ASF that the vast majority of “Western” career journalists don’t know their arse from their elbow whenContinue Reading
Gerry Adams And The Problem Of Surviving The Cause
A different take on the post-conflict career of Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams, guerilla-turned-politician, from the journalist Michael Brendan Dougherty writingContinue 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
Sinn Féin And The United States
It’s party conference time in Ireland and the two governing coalition partners, Fine Gael and Labour, have just ended theirContinue Reading
Sinn Féin And Fianna Fáil 2016
Today’s Irish Times Ipsos MRBI poll makes for some interesting reading, not least with the dramatic surge inContinue Reading
The Perfect Storm Of Irish Politics
Dara Kelly over on the Irish Central examining the continuing controversy stemming from the recent examples of British legacy racismContinue Reading
Defenders And Defilers Of The Irish State
Apparently Gerry Adams TD, leader of the political party the polls declare the most popular in the country, has issuedContinue Reading
That Fake Letter From Gerry Adams
A quick piece on the ongoing Maíria Cahill controversy, in particular the sudden reactivation of a number of anonymous anti-republicanContinue Reading
Maíria Cahill And The Republican Network For Unity
Last Friday morning the journalist and writer Paul Larkin highlighted on Twitter some evidence that a “Mairia Cahill” from BelfastContinue 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
Maíria Cahill And Micheál Martin’s Cynical Opportunism
Maíria Cahill, a member of a respected Republican family from Belfast and a former youth activist with Sinn Féin, hasContinue Reading
Maíria Cahill And Gerry Adams
One of the rarely discussed facets of the generational war which disfigured the north-east of Ireland from the mid-1960s toContinue Reading
Divide Et Impera
Seriously, have people lost all sense of reality in relation to the admittedly bitter divisions within the broad Republican movement stemming fromContinue Reading
No Prosecutions For British Death Squad Confessions
In the early 1970s the Military Reaction Force or MRF was a covert unit of the British Army which operatedContinue Reading
The Unionist Hand Behind The Boston Tapes?
As the fall-out from the arrest and detention of Gerry Adams TD continues to rumble on (“coinciding” with moves byContinue Reading
The Importance Of The Historical Voice
In relation to the arrest of Gerry Adams TD and the debacle surrounding the Boston College Oral History Project theContinue Reading
Only A General Amnesty Will Yield The Truth
As the impact of the arrest of the veteran activist Ivor Bell continues to reverberate within Republican circles there isContinue Reading
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
The latest electoral poll shows Sinn Féin on 21%, just a handful of points behind Fianna Fáil’s 25% and FineContinue Reading
No Irish For The Irish Parliament?
Eoin Ó Riain tackles the latest example of Gaeilgeoir-baiting that has tarnished the pages of the Irish Times, courtesy of journalist Miriam Lord, the newspaper’s political sketch writer. Over theContinue Reading
The Politics Of Distraction
Here is another entry for my occasional “Only In Ireland” series. Following on from the slow drip of revelations thatContinue Reading
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