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
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First Preference Votes In The 2014 Local Elections Are Mapped
The newish website Irish Political Maps has a list up displaying the percentage of first preference votes for parties in theContinue Reading
The Responses To The Boston Tapes’ Controversy
Further to the seemingly never-ending twists of the bitter Boston Tapes controversy one of the chief participants in the project,Continue Reading
The Morning After Poll
The headline figures from the RTÉ exit poll have been published and they are showing a huge jump in supportContinue Reading
Electoral Unrest In Derry
Interesting results in Derry with the election of three Independent candidates one of whom is unquestionably from the Republican Left.Continue Reading
Expediency Is No Substitute For Commitment
From a profile in today’s Irish Times on Lynn Boylan, formerly Lynn Ní Bhaoighealláin , the Sinn Féin candidate inContinue Reading
Ireland And Scotland, Our Democracies, Our Voices
The recent polls in Ireland and Scotland make for interesting reading in the run-up to the European and local electionsContinue Reading
No Prosecutions For British Death Squad Confessions
In the early 1970s the Military Reaction Force or MRF was a covert unit of the British Army which operatedContinue 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
ASF – The European And Local Elections
Several readers of An Sionnach Fionn have asked me how I intend to vote in the upcoming European and local elections. Though some people might objectContinue Reading
The Unionist Hand Behind The Boston Tapes?
As the fall-out from the arrest and detention of Gerry Adams TD continues to rumble on (“coinciding” with moves byContinue 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
Fine Oibre Government Faces Electoral Shock And Awe?
So local residents at Togher in Cork and Raheny in Dublin are refusing to allow domestic water meters to be installed inContinue Reading
Latest Poll Numbers
Despite the hammering Sinn Féin has taken in the national media the latest poll from Paddy Power/Red C reveals theContinue Reading
Republican Factionalism Down South
Talking of people or organisations with questionable beliefs Republicans are not without their faults, as illustrated by this local newspaperContinue Reading
Nelson Mandela – An Irish Republican By Another Name
After a long period of ill-health Nelson Mandela, former leader of the African National Congress, Umkhonto we Sizwe and PresidentContinue Reading
Sinn Féin, Éirígí And The Republican Left
A quick post to highlight some recent political analyses. The first comes from World by Storm examining the alleged reductionContinue Reading
Ireland’s Jewish Revolutionaries
The always fascinating Dublin history and culture blog Come Here To Me has another excellent article on the capital’s recentContinue Reading
Remembering The Shankill Road Bombing
I suspect that I am not the only Republican made uneasy by a community plan in Ardoyne to hold aContinue Reading
The Labour Party, Not Waving But Drowning
There may well be something anomalous about the latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI opinion poll but even with that caveat inContinue Reading
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