Irish-Speakers Are Second-Class Europeans
In May of 2014 the Sinn Féin member and Irish rights campaigner Liadh Ní Riada was elected to the European ParliamentContinue Reading
Tag: Sinn Féin – SF
Condemning Rebellion In Occupied France And Ireland
Today’s Irish Times newspaper carries a deeply offensive article examining the period of 1939-45 in France and what the authorContinue Reading
The Jacobin View On Ireland
The US-based Jacobin magazine has a lengthy and well-informed article on the current situation here in Ireland, particularlyContinue Reading
The Irish Struggle
Twenty-eight years ago officials from the government of Ireland tasked with managing Dublin’s interests in the north-east of the country asked their BritishContinue Reading
Sinn Féin And Fianna Fáil 2016
Today’s Irish Times Ipsos MRBI poll makes for some interesting reading, not least with the dramatic surge inContinue Reading
The Popular Armed Struggle
During the 20th and 21st centuries many myths have taken root in popular culture concerning insurgencies and counter-insurgencies. Received wisdom, oftContinue Reading
The Perfect Storm Of Irish Politics
Dara Kelly over on the Irish Central examining the continuing controversy stemming from the recent examples of British legacy racismContinue Reading
The Irish Slave Mind
Given some recent conversations on ASF I thought this article might be of interest to a number of readers. It discusses the muchContinue Reading
Defenders And Defilers Of The Irish State
Apparently Gerry Adams TD, leader of the political party the polls declare the most popular in the country, has issuedContinue Reading
Sinn Féin’s Bluff And Bluster On Irish Rights
Sinn Féin, and to a lesser extent the SDLP, are still throwing all sorts of shapes in the regional assemblyContinue Reading
That Fake Letter From Gerry Adams
A quick piece on the ongoing Maíria Cahill controversy, in particular the sudden reactivation of a number of anonymous anti-republicanContinue Reading
Maíria Cahill And The Republican Network For Unity
Last Friday morning the journalist and writer Paul Larkin highlighted on Twitter some evidence that a “Mairia Cahill” from BelfastContinue Reading
Slut-Shaming Maíria Cahill Is Not A Republican Response
So the controversy in relation to the allegations made by 33 year old Maíria Cahill, a former national secretary ofContinue Reading
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
Over 50,000 Protest Water Taxes
Last Wednesday I suggested that the imposition of water charges at the behest of the IMF-EU-ECB could do for theContinue 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
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
Rhetoric Should Take Second Place To Respect
The ongoing military operations being carried out against the civilian population of Gaza and Occupied Palestine as a whole byContinue 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
Tony O’Reilly, Entrepreneur Or Ideologue?
For the last three decades the national press in Ireland has been dominated by the publications of the Independent News & MediaContinue Reading
The Many Faces Of The Labour Party
Joan Burton, the aspirant leader of the rapidly decaying Labour Party, has loftily informed the waiting news media that sheContinue Reading
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