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
Tag: Irish Republican Army – IRA
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
The Origins Of The Name Irish Republican Army Or IRA
Back in 2011 I wrote a short piece on the history of the terms “Irish Republican Army” and “IRA“ by conducting aContinue Reading
Promises Broken Are Votes Negated
Sixteen years after the signing of the Belfast Agreement, thirteen years after the “reform” of policing, seven years afterContinue Reading
Analysis Of ÓnaÉ Video
There was a bit of a kerfuffle in the news media over the weekend caused by the military funeral ofContinue Reading
The Orange Order – Enough Is Enough
From 1975 to 1982 a British terrorist faction nicknamed the “Shankhill Butchers”, part of the militant UVF, carried out aContinue 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
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
Divide Et Impera
Seriously, have people lost all sense of reality in relation to the admittedly bitter divisions within the broad Republican movement stemming fromContinue Reading
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
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 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
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
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
Only A General Amnesty Will Yield The Truth
As the impact of the arrest of the veteran activist Ivor Bell continues to reverberate within Republican circles there isContinue Reading
Some Cock And Bull
First off we have some serious (if highly improbable) cock-waving by Resistance Republicans via a rather bland report by theContinue Reading
The Peace Process Elicits Irish Pride But British Shame?
So suddenly the news media around the globe have become aware of one the most widely-known secrets in Irish andContinue Reading
Letter Bombs In Britain. A Failure Of Vision
This is not 1884 nor is it 1974. So what on earth is the military or revolutionary rationale for sendingContinue Reading
Chief Superintendent Harry Breen, What You Weren’t Told
In all the discussions stemming from last year’s controversy over the Smithwick report it is strange that no one in the press hasContinue Reading
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