Irish News, Politics, Culture
As expected the Easter weekend witnessed the usual display of overweight men and women marching in ill-fitting, quasi-military uniforms while professing loyalty toContinue Reading
On the evening of Friday the 29th of July the minor Republican Resistance grouping, Óglaigh na hÉireann (ÓnaÉ), staged aContinue Reading
Reinforce the Ring of Steel! Deploy the SAS on the streets! Wrap Big Ben in cotton wool! The breakaway factionsContinue Reading
Did someone mention, “general election“? With April the 8th serving as the legal cut-off point for the holding of theContinue Reading
From the legendary investigative journalist, Duncan Campbell, a series of articles written for the New Statesman magazine in May 1984, describingContinue Reading
In the early hours of the 24th of October 1990 several volunteers of the Derry Brigade of the (Provisional) Irish Republican ArmyContinue Reading
Following up on my article examining the last great battle of the War of Independence, the confrontation between a combined force ofContinue Reading
On the morning of Monday the 24th of April 1916 a number of republican and nationalist organisations in Ireland, directed byContinue Reading
On a day that has witnessed a state-funeral for the disinterred remains of Thomas Kent, a fifty-year-old commandant of the Irish VolunteersContinue Reading
The unexpected election of a progressive candidate to the leadership of the UK Labour Party, along with several like-minded colleagues, has sentContinue Reading
On the 13th of January 1921 a number of British soldiers manning a vehicle-checkpoint on O’Connell Bridge, the main river-crossingContinue Reading
Talking of the press conference by Bobby Storey, the Sinn Féin northern chairperson, here are the words of the deputy firstContinue Reading
Of the many, many tens of thousands of Irish people who have suffered hardship at the hands of the UK state inContinue Reading
One of the great, populist myths on the right and far right of German politics during the 1920s and ’30s wasContinue Reading
Kevin Meagher’s article in the left-leaning New Statesman on the anti-establishment contender for the leadership of the UK Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn,Continue Reading
Two days have passed since I criticised the risible scaremongering amongst sections of the domestic and UK press, as well asContinue Reading
From 1995 to 2001 an organisation calling itself Direct Action Against Drugs, or DAAD, was involved in a series ofContinue Reading
Just after midnight on the 15th of August 1915 several armed and masked men forced their way into the London and North WesternContinue Reading
Kurt Eichenwald is a veteran American journalist of some thirty years standing who has specialised in everything from corporate malfeasanceContinue Reading
A belated happy Lá Lúghnasa to one and all as we celebrate the traditional harvest festival marking the commencement of the third quarterContinue Reading
Just a quick heads-up for those who have access to the series “Twentieth Century British History” from the Oxford Journals.Continue Reading
Irish journalist and author Ed Moloney, now resident in New York, has an interesting article over on his Broken ElbowContinue Reading
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