Irexit, A Free State 2.0 For The Admirers Of Brexit’s Empire 2.0
Ray Kinsella, a former economics professor and an occasional opinion writer, is a bit of an odd sort. On someContinue Reading
Tag: John Redmond
Ireland’s British Apologists Continue The Fight
There are relatively few nations in the world where a significant part of the ruling elites, be they in politics orContinue Reading
John Redmond And The Apologists For Appeasement
The Irish Times, along with other conservative news media, has made some valiant attempts in recent months to defend the politicalContinue Reading
The John Redmond Banner And Ireland’s 35,000 Dead
A quick update on the divisive 1916-2016 centenary banner erected by Dublin city council at the prominent Bank of Ireland building in College GreenContinue Reading
John Redmond MP, The Historical Man And The Revisionist Myth
In recent days we have witnessed the bizarre spectacle of Dublin city council erecting a 1916-2016 centenary banner at theContinue Reading
The Fantasy History Of The 1916 Easter Rising
Liam Kennedy is a professor of economic and social history at Queen’s University Belfast, which is somewhat shocking given thatContinue Reading
John Redmond MP The Gun-Loving German-Shooting Pacifist
Just after midnight on the 15th of August 1915 several armed and masked men forced their way into the London and North WesternContinue Reading
Celebrating The Irish Who Fought Against Slavery
As Ireland’s plutocratic old guard grinds its teeth in anxiety at the approaching 2016 centenary of the Easter Rising, the insurrection that heralded the Irish RevolutionContinue Reading
John Redmond, From Gun-Running To Civil War
In recent years the historical figure of John Redmond MP, the head of the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) and self-declaredContinue Reading
France Had Pétain, We Nearly Had Redmond
John Redmond is probably one of the more divisive figures in Irish history and rightly so. The patrician head ofContinue Reading
The Real Subversives In Ireland
The twisted psyche of the ruling elites in Ireland is never plainer to see than when one of them emergesContinue 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
John Redmond And The Blood Sacrifice – For The British Empire
Moronic statement of the week? Step forward the Irish Times and this piece from today’s newspaper: “The introduction of the Third HomeContinue Reading
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