Was The IRA Defeated? Or How Did The Troubles End
Dr Thomas Leahy is a lecturer in British and Irish Politics and Contemporary History at Cardiff University, and the authorContinue Reading
Tag: Ireland
The DUP And Those Dubious Claims Of Irish Sea Border Violence
Threats? What threats? That is the question on a lot of minds as scepticism continues to grow about recent claimsContinue Reading
Britain Leaves The EU. Then Complains Why It Is Treated Differently By The EU!
Having hectored, cajoled and bullied its way through the uncivil negotiations around Brexit (“British exit”) and Trexit (“Transition exit”) itContinue Reading
DUP Decries Constitutional Change While Denying Any Change
One of the more enjoyable aspects of last week was watching the mental gymnastics of Arlene Foster and other representativesContinue Reading
A New Year, A New EU As The UK Exits Stage Right
And so it ended, the United Kingdom’s decades-old membership of what is now the European Union, not with a bangContinue Reading
Mary Lou McDonald: “A United Ireland Will Happen Within A Decade”
I’ve some mixed views on the British journalist Owen Jones, who cleaves a little bit too much to the censoriousContinue Reading
The Anti-Lockdown Neo-Right And Their Media Fellow-Travellers
For those of us concerned about the health of our families and friends, of our neighbours and co-workers, there isContinue Reading
Stopping The Far-Right; Enabling The Far-Right
On Saturday the socialist-leaning group-blog The Cedar Lounge Revolution published a post criticising the latest anti-lockdown rally organised in DublinContinue Reading
The Summer Solstice Was Not A Celtic Irish Festival
Last Saturday evening witnessed the apogee of the summer solstice in Ireland, leading to this description of its cultural significanceContinue Reading
Programme For Government: Good News For Cyclists And Pedestrians?
The draft programme for government agreed by Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party commits the forthcoming coalition toContinue Reading
The Proposed Coalition: Fianna Fáil Dissent, Fine Gael Smugness, Green Party Unease And Russian Bots
Are the wheels about to come off the new multiparty coalition government before it can even trundle out of theContinue Reading
The Detestable Race. Beatrice and Sidney Webb In Ireland
For the last few weeks I’ve been doing some research on the complex origins of socialism as a political andContinue Reading
Ending The Lockdown In Ireland. Too Fast, Too Soon?
Though the Fine Gael-led Government seems determined to speed up the country’s transition through the various stages of the lockdownContinue Reading
UK Drags Out Talks With EU While Demanding Access To EU Systems
An interesting report from Bloomberg News on the more strident tone that has been adopted by the United Kingdom inContinue Reading
Stay At Home
For the last few months I have found myself in a rather unfamiliar category of employment: the somewhat nebulously definedContinue Reading
UK Coronavirus Death Toll Over 41,000, More Than Double Official Figures
An extraordinary story from the Financial Times in London and one that will almost certainly be replicated in many otherContinue Reading
The Fianna Fáil And Fine Gael Manifesto
I’ve held off from commenting on the increasingly likely government partnership between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil in the hopesContinue Reading
The David McWilliams’ Podcast #53
Another episode of the David McWilliams’ Podcast on YouTube featuring discussions about the economy, both now and in the nearContinue Reading
The UK Response To The Coronavirus Endangers All Of Us
Incompetence or deliberate intent? That is the question in the minds of many observers as they look at the muddledContinue Reading
Was The IRA Defeated?
One of the great modern myths of the Troubles, the insurgency and counterinsurgency conflict that raged in the British-ruled northContinue Reading
Coronavirus, Herd Immunity And The UK’s Darwinist Response
Can it really be true as the international media is speculating? That the Conservative Party government in the United KingdomContinue Reading
ASF Vote In General Election 2020
As is now a tradition on ASF, here is the order of votes that I cast in today’s general election:Continue Reading
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