From the Liffey to the Danube: The Sinn Féin Ideal and the Hungarian Question-Gyöngyösi Márton
The following tract is taken from a 2003 pamphlet about the Irish rejection of the Nice Treaty by former MEP and Hungarian parliamentarian Gyöngyösi Márton and is syndicated with permission of the author. In light of the outcome and results...
A Broad Church for the Irish Right?
I wrote a few days ago about the failure of Irish populists to organise. The piece was pessimistic because pessimism was the only intellectually honest response to the evidence. Reality, so far, has not been especially generous. One observation in...
Mr Tóibín Goes to Washington: Inside Aontú’s American Pivot
During their recent visit to the United States, Aontú and party leader Peadar Tóibín presented the trip as a significant step in building international links, particularly among Irish-American communities. The itinerary included meetings with U.S lawmakers from both major parties,...
How to Stop an Irish Boriswave
What Happened and What's Next? Right-wing condemnation abounded online this week upon news of the signing of a new cooperation agreement between the EU and India with explicit mention of steaming migration between Europe and the subcontinent. In the works...
The Gaza Board of Peace and the Irish Illusion
Although Trump's self-serving Gaza Board of Peace has no end of critics, it is a useful weathervane to gauge where the world, Ireland included, is going. The Board exists to enrich its members and to secure their interests. The Palestinians,...
Imperial America: Ireland and Washington’s Expanding Biometric Border Regime
The rupturing of transatlantic relations continues to define the diplomatic calendars of both Iveagh House and European capitals with scant attention being paid to moves by Washington to hoover up the biometric data of EU citizens. Referred to by policy...
Croke Park Versus Zionism: Why the GAA Can’t Decouple From Allianz
In a recent article titled "The Corporate Capture of the GAA", the Communist Party of Ireland's Socialist Voice magazine informed us that Allianz's massive sponsorship of the GAA must be ended to "save the soul of the GAA". Their excuse for destroying the...
Ireland Will Miss Globalism When it’s Gone
Greenland. Gaza. Ukraine, Maduro, Iran. History is not so much “returning” as kicking in the door with a hatchet. The geopolitical Goldilocks zone Ireland slipped into after the Cold War (the one many readers of this publication love to backtalk)...
IRL Forum, Bannon and the Irish Right’s Closing Window of Opportunity
John Buchan’s Greenmantle is often misread as little more than a period adventure novel. In reality, it is a study in political uncertainty - and in what happens when a moment opens up, but nobody is ready to seize it....
Did Brexit Break Belfast? Mass Migration and the Six Counties
One of the most frequently repeated promises made during the Brexit campaign was that leaving the European Union would “end mass migration”. Nearly a decade on, that claim does not survive contact with official data. On the contrary, immigration into...