Category: Culture & Arts
USI Censorship Machine Takes Aim at Irish Right on Campus
The Union of Students Ireland (USI) has taken justifiable flak this week following the casual exclusion of parties to the right of and including Aontú from their pre-election survey. Questioning all seven major Irish parties on their policy positions on...
Irish Liberalism as a Form of Dehistoricisation
Ireland’s rich and tumultuous history has shaped not only its cultural and social landscape but also the collective identity of its people. From the Gaelic tribes to the Norman invasion, from British colonisation to the struggle for independence, the past...
BritPop? No! GaelPop is back!
“We're not Britpop, we're Irish for a start” - Noel Gallagher At long last, Noel and Liam Gallagher have put their differences aside and are, ahem, getting the band back together. Millions, perhaps even billions rejoiced at the news, but...
RTÉ – Ireland’s Fifth Column
When Ireland’s national broadcaster was launched on New Year's Eve in 1961 President Eamon de Valera compared it to atomic energy - it would either make or break the Irish race. “Never before was there in the hands of men...
Does the ‘No’ Landslide Mark the Return of Iliberal Social Justice Politics?
The Constitutional Referenda's defeat offers an unparalleled opportunity for dissidents to reclaim the historic tradition of 'Catholic justice' back from the Managerial Class. (This piece is syndicated from Aistí Ó Craobh with the permission of the author). ‘The family in...
‘An Geimhreadh Thiar?’: Máirtín Ó Direáin as a Spenglerian Prophet of Ireland’s Decline
Influenced by the anti-modernism of Oswald Spengler, the Gaelic poetry of Ó Direáin rebukes modern Ireland's urban winter in favour of a return to the consciousness of our rural springtime. The following article is syndicated with permission from Aistí ó...
Ireland’s debt to Sweden: The foundation of the Irish Folklore Commission
This article was translated to Swedish and published by the Swedish publication Konservativ debatt. Here it is displayed in the original English-language form. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Gaelic Revival sought to recover and express Ireland’s native...
FACT-CHECK: Is obesity a disease, as Leo claims?
"Obesity is a disease, and we should not forget that.” - Leo Varadkar Sinn Féin TD for Louth, Ruairí Ó Murchú, brought up the shortage of ozempic in Ireland, a drug being touted as a sufficient weight-loss remedy, with Leo...
Banter Policing in England: A Slippery Slope?
Is banter being banned in Anglostan? What about here? What are the limits of banter? Lanklet Dev muddles his way through the issue with plenty of nauseating Britspeak dropped along the way... https://twitter.com/PangurBn10/status/1681632790876418048 "Enjoyable banter" that "went too far" -...
Burkean Campus Insider: Dublin Nightlife Guide
Continuing our Fresher's Week student guide, we take a look at the vibrant, fragrant, vagrant world of Dublin nightlife... Students escaping from their restrictive and domineering family homes, where their bitchy mammies refuse to use vegan plant-based alternative foods, will...