The Irish Language Deniers
In an interesting if factually flawed article the surprisingly authoritarian newspaper columnist Victoria White, the eco-activist wife of the Green Party’s lame duckContinue Reading
Tag: Ireland
British Reparations For British Crimes In Ireland And India
Shashi Tharoor, the noted Indian politician and author, delivers some home truths on the murderous nature of the British Empire toContinue Reading
Ireland And Catalonia, Some Historic Parallels
In the general election of December 1918 the revolutionary Irish republican and nationalist party, Sinn Féin, took 73 of theContinue Reading
Lá Lúghnasa Agus Diarmaid Ó Donnabháin Rossa
A belated happy Lá Lúghnasa to one and all as we celebrate the traditional harvest festival marking the commencement of the third quarterContinue Reading
Vice News On The Fianna Éireann And RSF
The pioneering US current affairs website Vice News has just published a short documentary examining the Fianna Éireann, the youthContinue Reading
Super Colonised Irish Syndrome
In today’s Irish Times newspaper Seaghán Mac an tSionnaigh reviews the latest in a wave of books from a new generation ofContinue Reading
Barbarians At The Gate
One of the more remarkable phenomena of modern Ireland has been the slow deculturation of the Irish people, a process ongoing since theContinue Reading
The Hooded Men, British Torture-Centres In Ireland
The Irish Times has a laudably detailed article examining the historic issue of the “Hooded Men”: Irish citizens detained by theContinue Reading
British Spies In The IRA, Myth Versus Reality
Just a quick heads-up for those who have access to the series “Twentieth Century British History” from the Oxford Journals.Continue Reading
It Is No More A Sin To Kill An Irishman Than A Dog
From a quote in an article by the Huffington Post examining the institutionalised discrimination faced by Irish-speaking citizens and communitiesContinue Reading
The INLA Show Of Strength In The City Of Derry
Following the recent death of Peggy O’Hara, the veteran political activist in the city of Derry, the Irish Republican Socialist Party andContinue Reading
Killing The Irish
Over the last few weeks I have been receiving unusually frequent and comprehensive PR releases from the Green Party’s press office, sometimesContinue Reading
Questioning The Media Myth Of The Moderate Orange Order
Another July 12th round of rioting, street disturbances, house-burnings and general displays of sectarianism, racism and straight-forward fascism. Of course someContinue Reading
The Eircode Controversy Or Screwing The Irish In That Other England
Eircode, the controversial, multi-million euro postal code system for Ireland, has been launched by Alex White, the coalition’s minister forContinue Reading
The Reorganisation Of The IRA In The Early 1970s
Irish journalist and author Ed Moloney, now resident in New York, has an interesting article over on his Broken ElbowContinue Reading
For July 12th Confederate, Nazi And British Terrorist Flags Fly In Ireland
So in the run-up to the annual July 12th “celebrations” in the north-east of Ireland some extreme elements of theContinue Reading
The Blog Awards Ireland 2015
I’ve received several messages from attentive readers in relation to the Blog Awards Ireland 2015, which are now open forContinue Reading
Confederate Flaggers And Unionist Fleggers
The similarities between the extreme fringe of the British unionist minority in the north-eastern part of Ireland and the extreme fringeContinue Reading
It Pays To Be Adam But Rarely Eve
To be a woman in a world where some men have cast aside the necessary bonds of civilization is a dreadful fate indeed.Continue Reading
Irish Is Not Dying, Irish Is Being Killed
When the greater part of Ireland won its independence from the United Kingdom in the early 1920s the number ofContinue Reading
Dylann Roof, The Last Rhodesian – Or Ulsterman
In the wake of the racially-motivated massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by DylannContinue Reading
The British Army’s “Tuzo Plan” Of 1972
Over on the Broken Elbow blog the veteran Irish journalist Ed Moloney has a detailed examination of the British Army’sContinue Reading
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