The British Blindspot In The Fawlty Towers Controversy? The Irish Orangutans
The decision by the BBC to remove an episode of the classic 1970s’ sitcom Fawlty Towers from the streaming serviceContinue Reading
Tag: Racism
Channel 4 News Examines Online Anti-Immigrant Activism In Ireland
Regular readers and social media followers of An Sionnach Fionn will have seen a number of articles and posts overContinue Reading
Irexit. The Irish Fifth Column For Brexiteers And Racists
Since the start of 2018 An Sionnach Fionn has published a number of articles examining the ongoing campaign by far-rightContinue Reading
Was JRR Tolkien, The Author Of The Lord Of The Rings, A Racist?
Was the British fantasy author JRR Tolkien a racist? That is the issue being debated in the wake of lastContinue Reading
Former Tory Minister: The Irish Really Should Know Their Place
On the British reaction to the Irish insistence that Britain’s proposed Brexit withdrawal agreement with the European Union must includeContinue Reading
Boris Johnson’s Father On A Hard Border: The Irish Shoot Each Other, That Is Something They Do
Stanley Johnson, the right-wing political commentator and father of Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom’s former Secretary of State for Foreign andContinue Reading
Ruth Dudley Edwards On Leo Varadkar’s “Outsider” Parentage And Sexuality
During the two terms of Barack Obama’s presidency in the United States of America, conservative journalists and politicians in theContinue Reading
The Dog-Whistle Rhetoric Of Brexit Britain Is Obsessed With Leo Varadkar
One of the more noxious effects associated with the rise of Brexitism in the United Kingdom has been the returnContinue Reading
UUP Lord Kilclooney Attacks Leo Varadkar With “Typical Indian” Jibe
For over thirty years, the Monaghan-born politician John Taylor, who sits as Lord Kilclooney in the upper house of theContinue Reading
The Ferryman, A British Troubles Play Where The Irish Are The Troublemakers
It is a remarkable trick for a violator to present the violated as the aggressor. To turn the victim intoContinue Reading
The Unionist Argument Against The Irish Language Is A Colonial One
At the weekend I was interviewed by a metropolitan American journalist doing some background research into Brexit and the possibleContinue Reading
The Gaelic Gestapo. Shaping The Language Of Hate In Scotland
To name a thing is to control a thing. Words have a power beyond the immediate and obvious. The processContinue Reading
The Real Cost Of Irish Language Act In The North Would Be £2 Million A Year
Conradh na Gaeilge, the prestigious Irish language advocacy organisation, has released a series of legislative proposals it believes will bring greater linguisticContinue Reading
The Irish Language Finds A Cold Home In The Irish Parliament And State
While we are certainly right to decry the inherent hibernophobia of mainstream political unionism in Ireland, not to mention the UnitedContinue Reading
The DUP Vows To Skin The Irish Crocodiles And Turn Them Into Union Jack Handbags
Talking of colonial supremacists, here is Arlene Foster, the beleaguered leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and her latest contributionContinue Reading
Appeasing The Orange Trumps Of British Unionism In Ireland Has Failed
It’s sometimes difficult to remember that there is a distinction to be drawn between unionists as an ethno-national minority inContinue Reading
The Peace Process Cannot Survive British And Unionist Animosity Or Dishonesty
When Martin McGuinness resigned as the deputy first minister in the power-sharing executive at Stormont, he blamed not only theContinue Reading
An Bhfuil Tú Dáiríre? A Documentary Challenging Anti-Irish Sentiment In Ireland
Back in October of last year I examined a short documentary by the freelance journalist Eoin Butler attacking the position of the IrishContinue Reading
From America To Ireland, Appeasement Has Become The Answer To Racism
One of the more repugnant individuals employed in the editorial team of the Donald Trump fanzine, Breitbart News, is the reporter Katie McHugh.Continue Reading
Northern Ireland, The Sectarian And Racist Squalor Of Britain’s Last Colony
Anna Lo, the Chinese-Irish president of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI), a liberal unionist grouping in the north-east ofContinue Reading
The #Gaelexit Campaign Turns Anglophone Victimiser Into Anglophone Victim
So the online current affairs website, The Journal, has published yet another opinion piece on the Irish language and theContinue Reading
Irish, A Living Language That Others Are Seeking To Kill
There is no process of natural selection for languages, no evolutionary rule which dictates that one tongue is inevitably suppressed or supplanted by another.Continue Reading
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