The Common Enemy Unites Ireland North And South
Some people claim that Ireland will never be reunited. That the British Unionist minority in the north-east of the country areContinue Reading
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Joan Burton Burns Rubber
Talking of unfinished revolutions we learn this evening that Joan Burton, Tánaiste, minster for social protection and Labour Party leader, was delayed inContinue Reading
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
I’m not quite sure if the political establishment in Ireland is embarrassed, ashamed or terrified by the 2016 centenary of theContinue Reading
The Irish Slave Mind
Given some recent conversations on ASF I thought this article might be of interest to a number of readers. It discusses the muchContinue Reading
Ambivalent Language Masks Intolerance
In light of two recent posts, “The Acceptable Form Of Racism In Ireland” and “Sinn Féin’s Bluff And Bluster On IrishContinue Reading
Defenders And Defilers Of The Irish State
Apparently Gerry Adams TD, leader of the political party the polls declare the most popular in the country, has issuedContinue Reading
Sinn Féin’s Bluff And Bluster On Irish Rights
Sinn Féin, and to a lesser extent the SDLP, are still throwing all sorts of shapes in the regional assemblyContinue Reading
Princes And Princesses Of The Continuity State
100,000 marchers on the streets of our capital city, gangs of Gardaí shuttling contractors for Uisce Éireann around suburban housingContinue Reading
The Downfall Of The Sindo Bunker
Just a bit of fun – albeit with a bite 😉
America Has The Tea Party, Ireland Has The DUP Party
Gregory Campbell is one of the better known members of the DUP in Ireland, the once fringe British Unionist party which has dominated one halfContinue Reading
The Acceptable Form Of Racism In Ireland
Do Irish-speaking communities and citizens in Ireland enjoy full equality with their English-speaking peers when it comes to the institutionsContinue Reading
Samhain Shona Daoibh
The sun has set, the bonfires are being lit, and the Feis Shamhna is upon us: the nocturnal festival of Samhain marking the commencement of the newContinue Reading
The Irish Famine Of 1925
These are the people, the right-wing Nationalist forces, that initiated and won the counter-revolutionary civil war of 1921-23 and thisContinue Reading
That Fake Letter From Gerry Adams
A quick piece on the ongoing Maíria Cahill controversy, in particular the sudden reactivation of a number of anonymous anti-republicanContinue Reading
Maíria Cahill And The Republican Network For Unity
Last Friday morning the journalist and writer Paul Larkin highlighted on Twitter some evidence that a “Mairia Cahill” from BelfastContinue Reading
Slut-Shaming Maíria Cahill Is Not A Republican Response
So the controversy in relation to the allegations made by 33 year old Maíria Cahill, a former national secretary ofContinue Reading
Ireland’s Great Betrayal
What date marks the end of Ireland’s War of Independence? It is a question more debated than you might think (alongContinue Reading
The West’s Favoured Chop-Chop Regime
As the world, particularly the so-called Western world, looks on in outrage at the activities of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)Continue Reading
Ireland Of The Apes
Are we really so enslaved to our post-colonial neuroses, so malformed by centuries of external domination, that even after ninety years ofContinue Reading
Maíria Cahill And Micheál Martin’s Cynical Opportunism
Maíria Cahill, a member of a respected Republican family from Belfast and a former youth activist with Sinn Féin, hasContinue Reading
Maíria Cahill And Gerry Adams
One of the rarely discussed facets of the generational war which disfigured the north-east of Ireland from the mid-1960s toContinue Reading
Tuairisc
A busy weekend behind me and an even busier week ahead so I haven’t had much time to discuss Tuairisc,Continue Reading
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