Category: Articles
Is Female Homicide on the Rise in Ireland?
The media coverage surrounding Ashling Murphy has been the first story in a while that the media has designated as more important than Covid. This is a relief to many, but it leaves us with the question of why the...
TENI Is Hiring: Is Ireland’s Trans NGO on Death’s Door?
Visitors to this site may have noticed The Burkean's ongoing fixation with the trans charity TENI, both in their funding streams as well as their dubious accounting methods which previously precipitated a HSE funding block and some awkward resignations. For...
Richard O’Halloran : An Actual Case for Foreign Intervention
The Irish Government and its quango-class loves berating foreign countries over their human rights abuses - whether it be threatening the Taliban to allow free flow of migrants into the West to supporting CIA-inspired colour revolutionaries in Belarus, or any...
Hunger Strikers’ American Legacy
This article was originally syndicated in the recently launched Gaelic American and is syndicated with permission. Almost overlooked, in this 40th anniversary year, is the historic American legacy which the 1981 Hunger Strikers inspired. British officials who plotted to undercut...
The State of Ireland’s Military: Pay, Conditions & Capabilities
This article will discuss the decline of the Irish military over the last number of years which are either due to a lacklustre attitude from the military hierarchy to drive home the issue of funding. Though the larger culprits reside...
Don’t Let Government Memory-Hole the Pandemic
And just like that, NPHET clicks its fingers and the pandemic is over. The curfew is ended, limits on capacity are lifted, and the use for Covid certs domestically is withdrawn - the demands of the ‘far right anti vaxxers...
Xenophilia – How Conservatives & Nationalists View the Other
Conservatives and nationalists are regularly accused of being xenophobic. In this simple article, I want to make the case that the opposite is true– that conservatives and nationalists are deeply xenophilic. Far from hating the things that are strange and...
Selective Reporting and the Responsibility of the Press
It comes as no surprise that Jozef Puska has finally been named as the individual charged with the murder of Ashling Murphy — certainly not to us as the supposed purveyors of disinformation, and certainly not to regime-approved journalists who...
The Anti-Lockdown Movement: More than Individualism?
The anti-lockdown movement’s individualist rhetoric has led many among the nascent, dissident-right to become somewhat disenfranchised with the movement. Those in these circles often charge the prolificity of individualism for many of society’s downfalls. The anti-lockdown movement’s appearance as an...
Fenians in the Transvaal: The Forgotten Irish of the Boer War
They were both people to whom the spirit of nationality had found strong manifestation, who had stood out even to the death against attempts to break their national independence. .. . They had both been through the fire of war...