Ireland Indicates A Harder Line On Irish, British And EU Negotiations Over Brexit
Charlie Flanagan TD, the minister for foreign affairs, has written a surprisingly forceful article for the New European, a pro-EUContinue Reading
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The Full Speech By The EU Brexit Negotiator Michel Barnier To The Oireachtas
Today’s address by Michel Barnier, the European Union’s lead Brexit negotiator, to a joint session of Oireachtas Éireann indicates justContinue Reading
Joint Authority Or Sovereignty Over The North, A Good Friday Agreement Mark II?
There has been a lot of speculation in recent weeks about the possibility of establishing joint-authority or sovereignty between IrelandContinue Reading
3D Modelling The Archaeology Of Ireland
The Discovery Programme, a national archaeological research body supported by the Heritage Council, has been publishing some fantastic 3D models forContinue Reading
Bill Clinton’s Remarkable Tribute To Martin McGuinness In Full
The former president of the United States of America, Bill Clinton, joined a host of other national and international dignitariesContinue Reading
Prime Minister Theresa May Supports Clandestine Amnesty For War Crimes In Ireland
In an unprecedented move the prime minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May, has launched a stinging attack on law officials who areContinue Reading
The Real Cost Of Irish Language Act In The North Would Be £2 Million A Year
Conradh na Gaeilge, the prestigious Irish language advocacy organisation, has released a series of legislative proposals it believes will bring greater linguisticContinue Reading
Initially, A United Ireland Would Be Neither Federal Or Confederal
As the Irish Times has noted, talk of a reunited Ireland is very much in the air. This is reflected inContinue Reading
Melanie Philips And The Revanchist Politics Of Brexit Britain
The supremacist nature of British, or rather, Greater English nationalism is summed up in this extract from a series of oddly contradictory and counterfactualContinue Reading
The Irish Language Finds A Cold Home In The Irish Parliament And State
While we are certainly right to decry the inherent hibernophobia of mainstream political unionism in Ireland, not to mention the UnitedContinue Reading
The UK Throws Two Decades Of Irish-British Peace To The Brexit Winds
It’s a rare thing indeed for the national press in Ireland to express anger at the political misdeeds of the unionistContinue Reading
Dermot Ahern, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Predicts Significant Brexit Border
Here is Dermot Ahern, the former Fianna Fáil TD for Louth and a senior minister in several FF-led governments from 1997Continue Reading
Ireland’s Homeless Crisis, When Party Ideology Trumps Government Duty
A full seven days late, the latest figures from the government show that 7,148 people were in emergency accommodation at theContinue Reading
Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness To Retire From Electoral Politics
In the last hour the Sinn Féin MLA Martin McGuinness, the former deputy first minister in the power-sharing executive at Stormont,Continue Reading
An Bhfuil Tú Dáiríre? A Documentary Challenging Anti-Irish Sentiment In Ireland
Back in October of last year I examined a short documentary by the freelance journalist Eoin Butler attacking the position of the IrishContinue Reading
Ex-UK Minister And Party Leader, Brexit Must Lead To A Reunited Ireland
Vince Cable, the former leader of the centre-left Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom and a senior minister in theContinue Reading
Ireland And The Roman Empire. Modern Politics Shaping The Ancient Past?
Way back in 1996, the Sunday Times newspaper in Britain ran an enthusiastic if awkwardly-phrased banner headline proclaiming that a “FortContinue Reading
The Winter Solstice At Brú na Bóinne Or Newgrange
Today’s winter solstice in the northern hemisphere has been marked by the now traditional sunrise ceremony at the 5000 year old burialContinue Reading
Neutral Ireland And The Threat Of A Nuclear-Armed European Union
With the Fine Gael-led minority government, like the FG-Labour coalition before it, playing footsie with NATO and the European Union’sContinue Reading
Hillary Clinton’s Contribution To The Irish-British Peace Process
As Hillary Clinton and her closest campaign aides continue to blame everyone but themselves for her humiliating defeat in the presidential contest last November, the arrogance that madeContinue Reading
A Comparison Of The Hebrew And Gaelic Revivals
Featured above is an interesting lecture titled “A Comparison of the Hebrew and Gaelic Revivals“, originally given by Aidan BeattyContinue Reading
Historical Revisionism In Early Irish And Celtic Studies
Following on from my post highlighting the formerly fractious debates in the cloistered world of prehistoric and Medieval Irish and Celtic studies,Continue Reading
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