The Calm Before The Storm
The infamous Ku Klux Klan had – and probably still has – burning crosses. The equally infamous Orange Order hasContinue Reading
Irish News, Politics, Culture
The infamous Ku Klux Klan had – and probably still has – burning crosses. The equally infamous Orange Order hasContinue Reading
The mainstream British Unionist parties in the north-east of Ireland, the governing DUP and out-of-office UUP, have issued a statementContinue Reading
Recently the British journalist Colin Freeman while reporting on the crisis in Iraq for the Daily Telegraph, the establishment newspaperContinue Reading
While the multi-millionaire children’s author JK Rowling was busy bankrolling the “No” campaign currently fighting Scotland’s independence referendum elsewhereContinue Reading
Nigel Farage, leader of the right-wing Eurosceptic party currently upsetting Britain’s staid tripartite political system, made a recent flying visit Ireland to expressContinue Reading
A terrifying report from the Guardian newspaper for anyone who knows anything about the history of modern Ireland: “David CameronContinue Reading
Once again it takes an Irish journalist working in a foreign newspaper to write what the Irish press would neverContinue Reading
Meanwhile in the “Crimea-of-the-West” militants from the British separatist minority in the north-east of Ireland have staged another of theirContinue Reading
The Reverend Mervyn Gibson, a senior member of the anti-Catholic British and Protestant society known as the Orange Order, hasContinue Reading
From Loyalists Against Democracy.
The Coen brothers are geniuses and “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” is one of their greatest movies with fantastic performancesContinue Reading
Some more displays of the British Unionist culture of the British Unionist minority in Ireland. Unrepresentative of the mainly Scots-IrishContinue Reading
In 2011 Senator David Norris ran for the presidency of Ireland in a campaign beset by controversy about his somewhatContinue Reading
The Belfast cumann of Fianna Fáil wishes the Orange Order a happy July 12th (with a lovely photo of uniformedContinue Reading
July the 12th and the British culture of the British Unionist minority in Ireland at its worse: racist, sectarian, xenophobic,Continue Reading
Some interesting views expressed underneath a post by WorldByStorm over on the Cedar Lounge Revolution: Do Irish people instinctively understandContinue Reading
Watch out, the Orange Order is about! Yes that’s right, the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland has finally shown itsContinue Reading
A few readers have contacted me asking why no post on the Ulster Covenant centenary march held in Belfast on Saturday.Continue Reading
The British separatist minority in Ireland doing what the British separatist minority does best: terrorising and intimidating other communities while expressing the supremacist attitudes of a colonial elite.Continue Reading
To their members and supporters (not to mention sympathisers) the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland is a purely “cultural organisation”Continue Reading
Ever heard of Tory Hoose? No? Well you’re about to: “Tory Hoose is a new chapter in progressive thinking andContinue Reading
In response to the annual violence sparked by a handful of intimidating marches through Irish communities in the British Occupied North of Ireland by the militant British nationalist andContinue Reading

