The Daily Beast Reviews The Bobby Sands’ Documentary Through British Eyes
For well over a century it has been the common practice of the American press to employ correspondents from the UnitedContinue Reading
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For well over a century it has been the common practice of the American press to employ correspondents from the UnitedContinue Reading
The Irish political activist, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, giving us a reminder of why she was such a powerful voice in the early yearsContinue Reading
During a number of recent speeches the presidential nominee for the Republican Party in the United States, ex-real estate mogul DonaldContinue Reading
Those damn Irish unionists are at it again! From the Australasian gaming website, Game Planet: “Irish Unionists call for ban onContinue Reading
Scanning through the recent tranche of hacked emails released by Wikileaks, taken from the Gmail account of John Podesta, the chairperson for Hillary Clinton’s presidentialContinue Reading
On Saturday afternoon up to a thousand people attended the first in a series of demonstrations in the north of Ireland to protest the possible effects of the UnitedContinue Reading
In 1992 the Associated Press distributed a newspaper report examining the United Kingdom’s then practice of using “human shields” toContinue Reading
As fears continue to grow that the United Kingdom is prepared to impose a “Brexit Border“ between the north-east of Ireland and theContinue Reading
The British investigative journalist and author, Ian Cobain, has published a new book examining the United Kingdom’s post-WWII record of covert governmentContinue Reading
With many observers focusing on the possibility of renewed instability stemming from the threatened “hardening” of the UK-imposed “border” between the north-east of IrelandContinue Reading
The common maxim, “history is written by the victors“, is a favourite one among writers and journalists trying to elucidate the contested pasts of colonisedContinue Reading
The Belfast or Good Friday Agreement of April 1998, which ended three decades of open conflict in the British-administrated north-east of Ireland, actually consistsContinue Reading
The first issue of the independent magazine An Glór Gafa, “The Captive Voice”, was published and distributed by Sinn Féin’s PrisonerContinue Reading
On the evening of Friday the 29th of July the minor Republican Resistance grouping, Óglaigh na hÉireann (ÓnaÉ), staged aContinue Reading
While the debate continues in Britain over the motives of murderer Thomas Mair, the killer of Labour MP Jo Cox, hisContinue Reading
Back in 2013, while examining the thorny issue of public support for the armed struggle of the (Provisional) Irish RepublicanContinue Reading
There is further evidence today of the dual nature of Britain’s counter-insurgency war in Ireland, the use of regular and irregularContinue Reading
“It is not those who can inflict the most, but those who can suffer the most who will conquer.” Irish Republican motto* WelcomeContinue Reading
For several hundred years the British, in one form or another, have been violently attempting to occupy and annex theContinue Reading
In October of 1989 Britain’s left-leaning current affairs magazine, the New Statesman, published a four-page exclusive revealing the successful penetration of the espionage andContinue Reading
I’ve recommended the historical analyses of Pat Walsh in a previous post and this sample from his forthcoming publication, “Resurgence”, theContinue Reading
At the tail end of last year the former British army commander turned security “expert”, Tim Collins, writing in Britain’s conservative SundayContinue Reading