O Brother, Sounds Familiar
The Coen brothers are geniuses and “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” is one of their greatest movies with fantastic performancesContinue Reading
Tag: Ireland
Et Tu, Brute?
Interesting to see that we are not the only ones having trouble with our Senate. From the National Post inContinue Reading
Pat Rabbitte Meets Seán And Síle Citizen – Again
Pat Rabbitte, rottweiler of the Labour politburo, seems to have a habit of coming a cropper in hotel bars and publicContinue Reading
Irish TV? We Should Be So Lucky!
So, essentially a big fuck you to the Irish-speaking citizens and communities of Ireland from former Trotskyite rebel-without-a-cause Pat Rabbitte,Continue Reading
Lashún Gatna “Beautiful Child”
Lashún Gatna or “Beautiful Child”, a song in the traditional Irish Traveller style written and sung by Jack Delaney. TheContinue Reading
Settler Culture
Some more displays of the British Unionist culture of the British Unionist minority in Ireland. Unrepresentative of the mainly Scots-IrishContinue Reading
David Norris, A Southern Unionist?
In 2011 Senator David Norris ran for the presidency of Ireland in a campaign beset by controversy about his somewhatContinue Reading
Fianna Fáil And The Brown Shirts
The Belfast cumann of Fianna Fáil wishes the Orange Order a happy July 12th (with a lovely photo of uniformedContinue Reading
The British Culture Of Ireland’s British Minority
July the 12th and the British culture of the British Unionist minority in Ireland at its worse: racist, sectarian, xenophobic,Continue Reading
Hyping Up A Seizure Of Weapons
Irish journalism surely loves its hyperbole. From the “Oirish” Mirror: “A large seizure of explosives and guns has put aContinue Reading
Discussing Irish Politics – Or The Lack Thereof
Some interesting views expressed underneath a post by WorldByStorm over on the Cedar Lounge Revolution: Do Irish people instinctively understandContinue Reading
The Lord Of The Rings And Ireland
Journalist Ciarán Dunbarr has a quick overview in Nós Mag of the alleged relationship between the English Fantasy author JRRContinue Reading
Labour Party Circling The Drain
The results from the latest Sunday Independent-Millward Brown poll (7th July, 2013) are in and while I’m sceptical of voterContinue Reading
Ulster-Scots – Courtesy Of The Irish Tax-Payer
The Ulster-Scots Agency or Boord o Ulstèr-Scotch was set up as part of the negotiations surrounding the Irish Peace Process ofContinue Reading
Sinn Féin, The SDLP And The Québec Comparison
Several commentators, including myself, have recently speculated about the possibility of Sinn Féin and the SDLP maximising the regional NationalistContinue Reading
Patterns Of War
With all the media focus on the rise of a global Big Brother via the Orwellian ambitions of the UnitedContinue Reading
Thoughtcrime Does Not Entail Death – Just Surveillance
Thanks to the big splash in today’s Guardian newspaper we now have more evidence of just how far we have travelledContinue Reading
Ireland’s Forests Saved?
A miracle on Kildare Street? A popular campaign in Ireland seems to have actually succeeded in getting the establishment powersContinue Reading
G8 Protesters Are “Anti-British”
Only in Ireland! Billy Hutchinson and the PUP, the political front of the British terror faction the UVF, staged aContinue Reading
Clueless – The International Press In Belfast
With so much of the news from the conflict in Syria being filtered through the International media one is struckContinue Reading
Bóthar an Choinicéir – A Walk Down Memory Lane
Some long-time readers know that I’m a bit of an architecture buff and reading a recent post by exiled IrishContinue Reading
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