The Importance Of The Historical Voice
In relation to the arrest of Gerry Adams TD and the debacle surrounding the Boston College Oral History Project theContinue Reading
Tag: Ireland
Political Shenanigans
Enda Kenny, Taoiseach na hÉireann, on the importance of water conservation and the dilemma faced by tens of thousands ofContinue Reading
Sinn Féin, A Victim Of Its Own Hubris
So Gerry Adams TD, the leader of Sinn Féin, has been released after several days of detention and interrogation byContinue Reading
The Great Irish Media Cover-Up
The pretence that the media establishment in Ireland is anything other than anti-Republican in terms of its collective political ideologyContinue Reading
Féile na Bealtaine
Some appropiate links for Lá Bealtaine, traditionally the first day of summer by the indigenous calendars of the Irish, Scots and Manx (andContinue Reading
No Investigation Into 1971 British War Crime In Ireland
The government of Britain has announced its refusal to investigate the Ballymurphy Massacre of 1971, a three-day killing spree byContinue Reading
The Legacy Of Brian Bóroimhe
2014 marks a thousand years since Cath Chluain Tarbh or the Battle of Clontarf so a quick post to highlight some fantasticContinue Reading
Barack Obama, They All Look Irish To Me
President Barack Obama addressing the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Town Hall in University Malaysia, as reported by News StraitsContinue Reading
The Irish Media In Panic Mode
Reading Ireland’s national and regional newspapers the worried expectations of the media establishment that Sinn Féin and various smaller partiesContinue Reading
The Little Englanders Of The American Left
AlterNet, that online bastion of American left-wing liberalism and anti-establishment rhetoric, has an opinion piece on the attendance of SinnContinue Reading
Fine Oibre Government Faces Electoral Shock And Awe?
So local residents at Togher in Cork and Raheny in Dublin are refusing to allow domestic water meters to be installed inContinue Reading
The Fenian Flame
For decades, or indeed centuries, the British sought to criminalise the Irish Republican cause, to portray Ireland’s revolutionary movements asContinue Reading
NI21 Gets Its Irish On
By all accounts Ireland’s newish British Unionist party, NI1921, is in grave difficulties following a series of internal squabbles overContinue Reading
Ireland’s English State
Another year, another name-and-shame report from Ireland’s Language Commissioner, the independent ombudsman tasked with overseeing the implementation of the country’sContinue Reading
Yahoo News And The Murder Advocates
Can someone explain to me how Yahoo News can permit comments by its readers advocating the murder of a well-known political figureContinue Reading
A Tale Of Two Languages
Kate Fennell in the Irish Times examining the Basque Country and the successful struggle for language rights in that IberianContinue Reading
Ireland’s British Rebels
Once again it takes an Irish journalist working in a foreign newspaper to write what the Irish press would neverContinue Reading
Five Thousand March For Irish Rights In Belfast
Last Saturday up to five thousand people took part in An Lá Dearg i mBéal Feirste, a march through theContinue Reading
Generation Shame
One of the great puzzles of modern Ireland, and certainly an endless source of fascination for foreign observers ofContinue Reading
An Lá Dearg I mBéal Feirste
Following on from the mass demonstration held in Dublin eight weeks ago during which 10,000 people marched across the capitalContinue Reading
Arrested For Speaking Irish In Europe’s Darkest Corner
The President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, is on an official state visit to Britain, the first by an IrishContinue Reading
Negationists Ahoy!
So that tired old spy/informer/traitor of yore, Seán O’Callaghan, is back peddling his same tired old “analyses” of political andContinue Reading
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