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Reinforce the Ring of Steel! Deploy the SAS on the streets! Wrap Big Ben in cotton wool! The breakaway factionsContinue Reading
Tag: The Long War – An Cogadh Fada
Was A Serial Rapist And Child Killer A British Spy In Ireland?
It’s an uncomfortable truism of the human condition that sociopaths are made, not born, and the life and death ofContinue Reading
The Shankill Bombing And Britain’s Proxy-War In Belfast
Just after 1 pm on the afternoon of Saturday the 23rd of October 1993, Thomas Begley and Seán Kelly, two volunteers ofContinue Reading
The African-American And Irish Civil Rights Movements
From NBC News, an article by Chandra Thomas Whitfield examining the influence of the African-American civil rights movement on its IrishContinue Reading
Captain Robert Nairac, Britain’s Death Squad Adventurer
2016 may be the centenary of the Easter Rising of 1916, and some journalists employed by the main titles ofContinue Reading
The Old, Old Story
From two newspaper articles over the last twenty-four hours. The Derry Journal reporting on the opinions held in 1972 by the BritishContinue Reading
How The Irish Government Covered Up The Murder Of An Irish Citizen
Forty-seven year old Séamus Ludlow, a quiet, unassuming life-long bachelor, was something of a man of habit. On the afternoonContinue Reading
Donald Trump, Gerry Adams And The US Media’s British Blind Spot
When the American news and current affairs website, the Daily Beast, needs a reporter to write a piece on Donald Trump’sContinue Reading
The British Attempted To Defeat The UDA? The British Were The UDA!
Mhairi Black MP, the left-wing political poster-child of the SNP, writing in Scotland’s pro-independence National newspaper, explaining her opposition toContinue Reading
The British Army In Ireland: Murder, Mayhem And Madness
From the legendary investigative journalist, Duncan Campbell, a series of articles written for the New Statesman magazine in May 1984, describingContinue Reading
The Long Shadow Of The Human Proxy Bomb
In the early hours of the 24th of October 1990 several volunteers of the Derry Brigade of the (Provisional) Irish Republican ArmyContinue Reading
Report On British And Irish Paramilitary Groupings Contains No Surprises
In response to the very selective quoting of the British government’s “independent” assessment of the current status of various paramilitary formations in theContinue Reading
New Revelations Over The British Army’s “Special Duties” In Ireland
On the morning of the 15th of December 1920, at the height of the Irish war of independence, four menContinue Reading
Satanic Masses, Devil Worshippers And British Dirty War Propaganda
As we move deeper into these post-conflict (or, arguably, intra-conflict) times, am I the only one to be struck by the sheerContinue Reading
Gusty Spence, In The Shadow Of A British Gunman
Speaking of the history of British separatist terrorism in Ireland, here is a recent article from Ciarán Mac Airt, author andContinue Reading
Britain Goes All 1970s With Threats Of Mutinies, Coups And Rebellions
Well it didn’t take long for John McDonnell, the finance spokesperson for the UK Labour Party, to walk back from hisContinue Reading
On The Anti-Colonial Struggle In Ireland Corbyn And McDonnell Are Right
The unexpected election of a progressive candidate to the leadership of the UK Labour Party, along with several like-minded colleagues, has sentContinue Reading
American Journalism Fails The Irish Test Once Again
Kurt Eichenwald is a veteran American journalist of some thirty years standing who has specialised in everything from corporate malfeasanceContinue Reading
The Hooded Men, British Torture-Centres In Ireland
The Irish Times has a laudably detailed article examining the historic issue of the “Hooded Men”: Irish citizens detained by theContinue Reading
British Spies In The IRA, Myth Versus Reality
Just a quick heads-up for those who have access to the series “Twentieth Century British History” from the Oxford Journals.Continue Reading
Jeremy Corbyn And The Self-Deluding British Press
Watching the right-wing and nationalist press in the UK gnashing its teeth at the thoughts of left-wing MP, Jeremy Corbyn,Continue Reading
A Sordid Tale Of British Gunmen, Bombers And Policemen
In his final exploration of the evidence sourced for the RTÉ television documentary “Collusion”, a feature-length programme examining the links between the UK military and intelligence services garrisonedContinue Reading
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