Sinn Féin Sees Enemies To The Left, Enemies To The Right, Enemies All Around
Talking of the press conference by Bobby Storey, the Sinn Féin northern chairperson, here are the words of the deputy firstContinue Reading
Tag: Ireland
The Existence Of The IRA As A Guarantor Of Peace
Of the many, many tens of thousands of Irish people who have suffered hardship at the hands of the UK state inContinue Reading
Opposing Abortion Based On Fact Not On Faith
Over the last three years of writing the Sionnach Fionn blog there have been a number of subjects that have drawn vigorous responsesContinue Reading
#MyNameIs And #NINA As Facebook Claims Irish Names Are Not Real Names
Over the last several months a number of people from Ireland and the Irish diaspora have been barred from the American social networking platform,Continue Reading
Sinn Féin And Right2Water
What is the real attitude of Sinn Féin to the imposition of water charges in Ireland? Are they wholly opposed to them orContinue Reading
An Inconvenient Truth Of The Irish Revolution
One of the great, populist myths on the right and far right of German politics during the 1920s and ’30s wasContinue Reading
Vote For An Sionnach Fionn In The Blog Awards Ireland 2015
Another year, another nomination to the Blog Awards Ireland competition. This is the third time in a row for An Sionnach Fionn, though with noContinue Reading
Native America To Native Ireland, Extermination By Any Other Name
Former libertarian favourite and would-be United States presidential candidate for the Republican Party, Rand Paul, seems to have completed hisContinue Reading
Restorative Justice For The Celtic Peoples
Returning to the issue of righting old wrongs, what might be described as restorative justice for dispossessed cultures, Paula Young Lee makesContinue Reading
One More Anglophone, One Less Gaelophone
If it’s good enough for native America why not for native Ireland? From an article in the Irish Times: “President BarackContinue Reading
No Taxation Without Representation
In recent weeks the right-wing Fine Oibre coalition and much of the equally right-wing press have confidentially asserted that the protestsContinue Reading
Circle Jerk Journalism From The Sunday Independent
“Circle jerk” is a slang term in American English normally defined as a sexual act, sometimes associated with pornography, where several individualsContinue Reading
Provisional IRA Not On A War Footing
Two days have passed since I criticised the risible scaremongering amongst sections of the domestic and UK press, as well asContinue Reading
The Reality Of Cold War Politics In The North-East Of Ireland
From 1995 to 2001 an organisation calling itself Direct Action Against Drugs, or DAAD, was involved in a series ofContinue Reading
The Colonist-Deniers Of Irish And British History
Speaking of that generation of academics, writers and journalists who have formed the core of what we might call the “colonist-deniers” ofContinue Reading
No Irish Need Apply, NINA
I’m sure that many ASF readers are aware of the research by Rebecca A. Fried, the fourteen year old AmericanContinue Reading
Contender For Leadership Of British Labour Plays The Orange Card
For the last four decades the Irish and British Labour parties have declined to formally or fully establish local branches or stand candidates for electionContinue Reading
John Redmond MP The Gun-Loving German-Shooting Pacifist
Just after midnight on the 15th of August 1915 several armed and masked men forced their way into the London and North WesternContinue Reading
Sinister Policing In The Ireland Of Fine Gael And Labour
In November of 2014 the Tánaiste and Labour Party leader, Joan Burton, was greeted by several dozen local residents protesting theContinue Reading
Denis O’Brien, Putting The Boot In
In relation to the controversial entrepreneur Denis O’Brien , the “Donald Trump” of the Irish business world, and his seeming determination to litigate his criticsContinue Reading
American Journalism Fails The Irish Test Once Again
Kurt Eichenwald is a veteran American journalist of some thirty years standing who has specialised in everything from corporate malfeasanceContinue Reading
Attitudes Towards The Irish Language On The Island of Ireland 2015
The Economic and Social Research Institute, the well-known independent think-tank, has released a new, one hundred page study titled, “Attitudes towardsContinue Reading
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