The Dirty Secrets Of A Dirty War Get Even Dirtier
In the “better late than never” category Britain’s Left-leaning newspaper, the Guardian, has published a special investigation by Ian CobainContinue Reading
Tag: Ireland
The Cló Gaelach Or Irish Typefaces
Following on from the popularity of a recent post examining some online sources for Irish literary studies I thought aContinue Reading
Irish In Ireland? Oh The Humanity!
Richard Haass, the latest diplomatic envoy from the United States to the permanently ailing Irish-British peace process, has offered theContinue Reading
Electronic Irish
A lot of people seem unaware of the two best online resources for historical texts relating to Ireland, both ofContinue Reading
Nelson McCausland, The Tea Party Escapee
What other nation in Western Europe would tolerate a senior member of a regional government using his personal blog toContinue Reading
.éire Versus .ie
The people of Wales now have two national domain names to register their websites with, “.cymru“ and “.wales”, reflecting theirContinue Reading
The 100th Anniversary Of The Redmondite Putsch
In June 1914 the autocratic leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party or IPP, John Redmond MP, staged something of a putsch withinContinue Reading
A Message To Scotland
When the children’s author JK Rowling announced her financial support for the anti-sovereignty side in Scotland’s forthcoming referendum on independenceContinue Reading
The Logainm Relaunch
A quick (if late) post on the Placenames Database of Ireland or Logainm, a comprehensive topographical index of our island nationContinue Reading
The Orange Government Of Britain
While the multi-millionaire children’s author JK Rowling was busy bankrolling the “No” campaign currently fighting Scotland’s independence referendum elsewhereContinue Reading
The Whole Aim Of Newspeak Is To Narrow The Range Of Thought
Colm Keena, the journalist and less-than-sympathetic biographer of Gerry Adams, has an article in the Irish Times newspaper examining theContinue Reading
British Unionism, Nationalism In Denial
In a glorious example of the Irish political rhetoric known as “whataboutery” the columnist N.R. Greer takes to the pagesContinue Reading
Threats
I’ve been left a short, single-line Comment underneath one of my blog posts which linked to a 2012 article by the UniversityContinue Reading
Paddy Ashdown, IRA Volunteer
Paddy Ashdown is a former British marine commando and intelligence officer with MI5, the ex-leader of the Liberal-Democrat party (whichContinue Reading
The Threat Of The Gaelic Ail-Caoíde
Talking of petty bigots whose anachronistic opinions are derived from centuries of colonial supremacism here comes another tirade against oneContinue Reading
British Reformation Politics
The legacy of British faith- and race-based colonialism right here in Europe, right here in Ireland. From The ImpartialContinue Reading
The Torture Files
So the News and Current Affairs Department of RTÉ, our self-proclaimed “national broadcaster” (no sniggering, please), has suddenly become awareContinue Reading
God Damn You All
Since the days of Thomas Davis and Michael Doheny, James Stephens and Charles Kickham, the adherents of Irish Republicanism have been theContinue Reading
The Continuity RUC
In an unprecedented move the Police Ombudsman for the north-east of Ireland, Michael Maguire, is to sue the Chief Constable of theContinue Reading
The Big Bang Theory
Like lambs to the slaughter Seán and Síle Citizen trots forward eager to taste the sweet green grass of domestic recovery,Continue Reading
First Preference Votes In The 2014 Local Elections Are Mapped
The newish website Irish Political Maps has a list up displaying the percentage of first preference votes for parties in theContinue Reading
The Responses To The Boston Tapes’ Controversy
Further to the seemingly never-ending twists of the bitter Boston Tapes controversy one of the chief participants in the project,Continue Reading
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