Category: Articles
Fairer Future: Time to Let Fianna Fáil Perish
As four months of protracted political horse-trading come to a close, it appears to be a most Pyrrhic victory for Micheál Martin. With the Taoiseach's office within grasp and a decade of post-Crash reform under his belt, the future should...
The Irish Were Slaves. Deal with it.
Gaslighting is nothing new in modern politics. Day after day, massive media and political institutions both downplay the importance of certain elements of world history, while massively inflating others. For those of us critical of the contemporary world, this is...
Ireland’s Top 10 Problematic Statues
A type of progressive iconoclasm appears to be the order of the day across much of the Western world this month. Buoyed on by the death of George Floyd, statues of historically racist individuals are biting the dust from King...
Will the Soul Survive Covid-19
The former Chief of Staff for Barack Obama’s White House once chimed ‘You never let a serious crisis go to waste’. Such thought is apt for the current global COVID-19 virus. The response from various countries has been similar in...
Black Lives Matter Dublin: Irish Cultural Colonisation and Left Hypocrisy
Dublin's streets could have been mistaken for inner city Los Angeles yesterday as it played host to its very own ‘Black Lives Matter’ protest. Numbering the best part of three thousand strong, the protest came as the city is tentatively...
Floyd Riots: A Critique of Impotent Rage, and the Future of Black Nationalism
There have been two main responses to the recent demonstrations in Minneapolis and other US cities. The first is that the rioting is justified to a greater or lesser extent. This stems usually from some argument that the destruction of...
The USI Chooses Oblivion
The Burkean looks with considerable dismay at the recent Annual Congress of the Union of Students of Ireland. While supposedly open to all, it's a cliquey process, largely occurring without the notice of the student population of Ireland, despite being...
Has Eurofederalism Hit a Legal Roadbump?
On May 5th the German Constitutional Court did what was unthinkable to Europhiles everywhere, and ignored the claims of the CJEU that European law is superior to National law. Before we consider the implications of this ruling, we should first...
Cahersiveen: Irish Asylum System Enters Meltdown
Flanagan’s Folly : DP Outrage in Cahersiveen As the days go by it becomes transparent that ongoing turmoil has blown the lid off the long existing fiasco of the Direct Provision system. A cause célèbre for both the open borders...
Review: TFW NO GF: Scapegoating and Alienation in Late Stage Liberalism
Incel: The Career of a Concept A spectre is haunting women, the spectre of the incel. Ironically coined by a woman, the term incel was invented in 1993, merely two years after the World Wide Web became available to the...