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
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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
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
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
Medieval Solutions For Modern Conflicts
Captain Lauren F. Serrano is an intelligence officer with the United States Marine Corp and this is from her much-laudedContinue Reading
The Many Faces Of The Irish News Media
Jim Cusack, the “security” correspondent of the Sunday Independent newspaper and arch-apologist for British colonial policing in Ireland, has pennedContinue 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
British Violence Good, Irish Violence Bad
Perhaps I should change that headline to a more accurate one? “British Violence (By Irish People For Britain) Good, IrishContinue Reading
Underground Warfare
One of the commoner settlement types to be found in Irish archaeology are the ráthanna or so-called ring-forts 40,000 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 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
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
More Allegations In The Boston Tapes Controversy
The “Boston Tapes” controversy just grows murkier by the day. I’m not saying I fall on the side of theContinue 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
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