Category: Articles
TCD Debating Scandal: Do Bugman Sexual Ethics Have a Future
Another Irish institution was put on notice this month with allegations of sexual impropriety emerging, this time in the swank environs of Trinity College debating. Centring on the twin TCD debating societies (The Hist and The Phil), the scandal aired...
Facebook Clamps Down on Irish Republican Groups
Irish Republican groups have seen their Facebook and Instagram pages removed and supporters’ personal accounts locked in the latest move by tech companies against dissenters. As reported in the Irish News, the 32 County Sovereignty Movement saw its national page...
TCD Academic Flogging New Antiracist Book For Over €100
Lentin Cashes In An old hand in the Irish diversity scene, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at TCD, Ronit Lentin looks set to extract blood from the stone with her new pricey book on the Irish asylum industry. Retailing at €105...
Gerry McGeough Assaulted Protesting Cookstown LGBT Parade
The veteran Republican and stalwart of Catholic Nationalists in the North, Gerry McGeough, was attacked following a public prayer of the Rosary in Cookstown, Tyrone in response to an LGBT parade through the town. In a video posted online, a...
For All his Faults, Higgins is right on Northern Centenary
Michael D. Higgins has caused consternation amongst the John Brutons of this world by his non-attendance at a religious ceremony in Armagh that was to "mark the centenaries of the partition of Ireland and the formation of Northern Ireland." The...
Foundation Texts of Irish Nationalism: A Reading List
Below is a list of books for the purpose of acquainting and educating its audience on the subject of Irish Nationalism. The books form a canon which is mostly, but not entirely, political in nature. The works were chosen to...
The Praesidium Triumphant: Lessons from the Legion of Mary
“In short, in every circumstance of special difficulty, or in face of danger, the legionary should remind himself: “A war is on”! This phrase that nerves a war-ridden people to sacrifice, should steel the legionary in his warfare for souls...
The Long Defeat: In Further Defence of Conservatism
Last November, I wrote an article for the Burkean entitled "In Defence of Conservatism". It drew two responses, one in December of that year ("Rebuking Conservatism", 07/12/2020) and one nine months later ("Does Conservatism Pave the Way for Progressivism", 11/09/2021)....
Four Generations into the Struggle: An Interview with Malachy Steenson
Image: Steenson addresses the crowd as an independent speaker at an IFP rally (source) The Burkean sat down recently with Malachy Steenson, a veteran of the Republican Movement with a long and storied career. We discussed Malachy’s personal and familial...
Does Conservatism Pave the Way for Progressivism ?
The Conservative Movement and its consequences have been a disaster for Western civilization. Anyone who has spent any time pursuing so-called ‘far-right’ ideas is sure to have come across the almost cliché question; what has conservatism ever managed to conserve? ...