John Bruton. Why?
John Bruton, former Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach na hÉireann, writing in the Irish Independent newspaper manages once again to proveContinue Reading
Tag: War of Independence – Cogadh na Saoirse
Partition Is Wrong In Ukraine But Right In Ireland?
Apparently ethno-religious separatists carving off regions of clearly defined national territories through violence and the threat of violence, withContinue Reading
Belfast’s Fianna Éireann During The Irish Revolution
Due to the baleful influence of the Neo-Unionist lobby in the Dublin press corps since the 1970s popular culture inContinue Reading
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
Some Irish Stories
A few quick links to articles and posts that I have enjoyed over the last week or so. First upContinue Reading
Celebrating The Irish Who Fought Against Slavery
As Ireland’s plutocratic old guard grinds its teeth in anxiety at the approaching 2016 centenary of the Easter Rising, the insurrection that heralded the Irish RevolutionContinue Reading
From Ireland To Greece A Policy Of Divide And Conquer
Reading this account by Ed Vulliamy and Helena Smith in the Observer newspaper of Britain’s fermenting of the civil warContinue Reading
Chronology of Irish History 1919–1923
Over the last year I’ve been contacted by a few people enquiring if I knew anything about the disappearance of the web-basedContinue Reading
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
I’m not quite sure if the political establishment in Ireland is embarrassed, ashamed or terrified by the 2016 centenary of theContinue 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
The Irish Famine Of 1925
These are the people, the right-wing Nationalist forces, that initiated and won the counter-revolutionary civil war of 1921-23 and thisContinue Reading
Ireland’s Great Betrayal
What date marks the end of Ireland’s War of Independence? It is a question more debated than you might think (alongContinue 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 Scandal Of The 1916 Battlefield Quarter
As Dublin City Council continues to debate and prevaricate over saving what is left of the capital’s 1916 Battlefield QuarterContinue Reading
The Irish Republic
I remember writing an essay many years ago where I stated that the Irish revolution was the making of Ireland’sContinue Reading
The Politics Of Brutal Bruton
Former Fine Gael leader and arch Euro-federalist John Bruton is generally regarded as the most economically right-wing Taoiseach Ireland hasContinue Reading
British Violence Good, Irish Violence Bad
Perhaps I should change that headline to a more accurate one? “British Violence (By Irish People For Britain) Good, IrishContinue Reading
France Had Pétain, We Nearly Had Redmond
John Redmond is probably one of the more divisive figures in Irish history and rightly so. The patrician head ofContinue 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
The 100th Anniversary Of The Redmondite Putsch
In June 1914 the autocratic leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party or IPP, John Redmond MP, staged something of a putsch withinContinue Reading
Negationists Ahoy!
So that tired old spy/informer/traitor of yore, Seán O’Callaghan, is back peddling his same tired old “analyses” of political andContinue Reading
The Irish Revolution And Native America
In June of 1919 Éamon de Valera, the American-born president of Ireland’s revolutionary government, was smuggled out of his war-torn homelandContinue Reading
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