British Unionism In Ireland And Its Tea Party Moment
Over on the Slate journalist Reihan Salam has an interesting examination of the electoral demographic which forms the backbone of the DonaldContinue Reading
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Joan Burton’s Campaign, From Farce to Fiasco
A poll suggests @labour is tumbling to the ground in #dubw #GE16 Bit like our press conference pic.twitter.com/nQb5dGao0j — SharonContinue Reading
Sinn Féin’s Manifesto Promises On Irish Rights
Sinn Féin has launched its bilingual 2016 election manifesto, to predictable scepticism from the right-wing press, and I’m sure most ofContinue Reading
Patrick Pearse And RTÉ’s Rebellion
With all the controversy stirred up by RTÉ’s dismal television dramatisation of the 1916 Easter Rising, its strange overtones of colonial denialism perhaps best summedContinue Reading
Ghetto Irish
Seán Cottrell, the chief executive of the Irish Primary Principals’ Network, in an opinion piece for the Irish Times newspaperContinue Reading
Facebook’s Opportunist Defence Of Non-English Languages
Given the relative antipathy or indifference of most major internet corporations to global minority languages, or indeed to any languages other than American English,Continue Reading
The Banking Inquiry Whitewash, Covering Up For The Party Tigers
With the death of Ireland’s so-called “Celtic Tiger” economy in 2008-2010 the country entered a period of severe recession, made worse byContinue Reading
Dublin, Easter 1916, Their Sympathies Were With The Rebels
I’ve made reference before to one of the great myths of the Easter Rising of 1916. That is, the absence ofContinue Reading
The Scale Of Surveillance Operations By The Irish State Is Staggering
While many people, certainly informed journalists and anti-austerity activists, would have been aware of the soaring levels of surveillance being carried outContinue Reading
The African-American And Irish Civil Rights Movements
From NBC News, an article by Chandra Thomas Whitfield examining the influence of the African-American civil rights movement on its IrishContinue Reading
In Sinn Féin Lotto 32, I Pick Numbers 1, 9, 1 And 6
At first I thought this was a joke, but no, this is actually a Sinn Féin initiative to drum up newContinue Reading
Antipathy To The Irish Language Is A Legacy Of Colonialism
Irish is the indigenous language of the island nation of Ireland and has held that unique position for at least theContinue Reading
More On The Artist Seaghán Mac Cathmhaoil Or John P. Campbell
My post yesterday on an eyewitness account of the Easter Rising of 1916, published some three months after the insurrection by the NewContinue Reading
The Renua Election Manifesto, Light On The Taxes, Lighter On The Irish
Renua, the right-wing “1% party”, launched its seventy-six page 2016 election manifesto yesterday under the stewardship of its leader, the conservative media darling,Continue Reading
It’s The Democracy, Stupid
Pat McCarthy, who was imprisoned without trial by the British in the early 1970s for alleged membership of the (Official) Irish Republican ArmyContinue Reading
Captain Robert Nairac, Britain’s Death Squad Adventurer
2016 may be the centenary of the Easter Rising of 1916, and some journalists employed by the main titles ofContinue Reading
Joan Burton Falls Out Of A Boat In Vicious Attack By Sinister Water
An Tánaiste and Labour Party boss, Joan Burton, with her PR-handlers in a tiny boat, in a tiny side-trickle of aContinue Reading
Majority Of Irish DNA May Have Originated In The Middle East And Eastern Europe
I’m sure some of you may have seen the recent flurry of articles in the national and international press highlightingContinue Reading
The Neo-Celtic Architectural Revival That Wasn’t
Most observers agree that the applicability of the term “Celtic architecture” is largely a matter of perception since no such tradition of buildingContinue Reading
All Criminals Are Equal, But Some Criminals…
Julien Mercille, geopolitics’ lecturer at UCD, writing for the broadsheet.ie in August: “Last week confirmed once again that in Ireland, theContinue Reading
Trolling The Brits For Lolz
A further display of idiotic, post-imperial amnesia by our neighbours across the Irish Sea in this report from The Journal.ie: “ANOTHER AWARDS NOMINATION announcement,Continue Reading
The Old, Old Story
From two newspaper articles over the last twenty-four hours. The Derry Journal reporting on the opinions held in 1972 by the BritishContinue Reading
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