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 United Kingdom’s intention to decouple itself from
Mr. Plinkett’s Review Of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
He’s back! After far too long an absence Mr. Plinkett takes a critical strapon to the cinematic travesty that was 2015’s “Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force
The #Gaelexit Campaign Turns Anglophone Victimiser Into Anglophone Victim
So the online current affairs website, The Journal, has published yet another opinion piece on the Irish language and the Irish-speaking community in Ireland, albeit
Burning A Changeling, Bridget Cleary And The Good People
The Australian fiction author, Hannah Kent, whose debut historical novel, “Burial Rites“, was published to critical acclaim in 2013 is currently promoting her newest work, “The Good
Big Drop For Fianna Fáil And Slight Rise For Sinn Féin In Latest Poll
While taking due note of the significant margin of error in the latest Irish Times-Ipsos MRBI poll there are still some things of interest in the results. Fianna Fáil
Irish, A Living Language That Others Are Seeking To Kill
There is no process of natural selection for languages, no evolutionary rule which dictates that one tongue is inevitably suppressed or supplanted by another. Languages don’t simply wither or
The Reconstruction Of The Ballinderry Sword, A Medieval Ulfberht Blade From Ireland
An Ulfberht Sword is a modern classification for a rare type of Medieval weapon composed of high-quality steel, produced in Europe from circa 800 to 1000 CE. The initial identification of the
Likelihood Of A Brexit Border In Ireland Grows As UK Rejects Human Rights Convention
In 1992 the Associated Press distributed a newspaper report examining the United Kingdom’s then practice of using “human shields” to protect its military and paramilitary
An Garda Síochána, A Police Force Mired In Controversy And Corruption
Repeated allegations of systemic corruption have been made by independent politicians and journalists against sections of An Garda Síochána, Ireland’s national police service, since at
Crom Cruach, The Dark God Of The Burial Mound
A guest post by Megas Begadonos of the website, Unchaining the Titan, reinterpreting for a modern audience the Medieval Irish figure of Crom Cruach, an archetypal “pagan” idol of stone
Unionism’s Continued Culture War Between Settler And Native In Ireland
Back in 2013 the political theorist and author, Daniel Butt, identified three characteristics which are found in most descriptions of historical colonialism: “[these are] …domination, cultural imposition, and exploitation.
Gary Johnson, The Third Stooge In The US Presidential Race
Gary Johnson, presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party and the political gift that just keeps on giving!🙂
Saoradh, The Revolutionary Irish Republican Party
Last weekend saw the launch of Saoradh, a new self-titled “Revolutionary Irish Republican Party”, at the Canal Court Hotel in Newry, County Down. Attended by
Irish Human Shields To Protect A British Border In Ireland?
As fears continue to grow that the United Kingdom is prepared to impose a “Brexit Border“ between the north-east of Ireland and the rest of the country, it
The 2016 First Presidential Debate
Before the first one-on-one presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump the press consensus held that if the coiffured orangutan managed to refrain from throwing his own excrement around
British Spies, Agents And Informers In The IRA
Last week the BBC news and current affairs programme, Spotlight, broadcast a series of interviews and dramatic reenactments with a man they called “Martin“, the pseudonym of a
Anti-Irish Prejudice In Ireland Cannot Be Reasoned With. It Can Only Be Defeated
Over the last two decades the linguistic denigration of hibernophone sports teams and their fans by anglophone opponents has become one of the odder aspects of life in modern Ireland. Perhaps such animosities were always present
Brian Nelson, Britain’s Agent Of Terror During The Dirty War In Ireland
The British investigative journalist and author, Ian Cobain, has published a new book examining the United Kingdom’s post-WWII record of covert government actions and cover-ups. Included in “The History
The Tough Guide To The Known Galaxy
Thanks to a recent post on the Cedar Lounge Revolution an accidental trail of hyperlinks led me to a website that I hadn’t seen in years.
Hillary Clinton’s Animosity Towards “That Man”, Barack Obama, And Bill’s Inveterate “Dicking”
Despite a somewhat haphazard campaign to question or undermine the veracity of the latest tranche of leaked emails from the Gmail account of the former United
Casting The Women Of Ireland Beyond The Ninth Wave: We Face This Land
Ireland’s indigenous literature has long regarded the ninth wave, reputedly the outermost one surrounding the shoreline of the country, as a supernatural boundary. When the invading Clann Mhíle, the Irish race,
You Cannot Hate Irish Without Hating Those Who Speak Irish
If you speak Irish in Ireland, and your children speak and are educated through Irish in Ireland, does this make you an ideological opponent of “cultural globalisation“? A Gaelic Donald Trump