Category: Culture & Arts
Who Lets Moore Street Rot?
Wandering down Moore Street the morning after hoodlums rammed Garda cars in Cherry Orchard, I chanced upon a glimpse of Dublin in the rarified ol' times. There, guitar in hand, surrounded by a phalanx of smiling Gardaí, was actor Phelim...
Latin Mass Suppressed in Cork Under Bishop’s Orders
Long a rumour but recently actualised, Leeside tradcaths awoke to news that the traditional Latin Rite is to be suppressed per orders from the Bishop’s Palace this week. A buoyant faith community built up between Saint Mary’s Dominican Priory and...
A Republic Without Ceremony: Ritual and the Irish State
The mourners massing to slowly shuffle past the remains of Elizabeth the Second in London’s Westminster Hall are drawn by more than just macabre fixation. A dull wooden box laying in a dusty hall inside a crumbling palace would do...
Modernists Against Ethnos: Towards a Proper Study of Irish Nationality
“If Ireland were in national health, her history would be familiar by books, pictures, statuary, and music to every cabin and shop in the land—her resources as an agricultural, manufacturing, and trading people would be equally known—and every young man...
Arguments Against IRFU Trans Decision Fail to Cross the Line
Writing in the University Times, River Cooke tries to argue that “women's rugby must include all women”, and, in particular, men who want to masquerade as women. Rivers sees the exclusion of such men from women's sports as unfair because,...
Youth2000 and the Irish Right
Last weekend the annual Youth2000 main conference took place in Clongowes Wood College in Kildare. The Burkean went along and spoke to two attendees of a right leaning mindset to get their take on the weekend and the way ahead...
Reddit Science and the Broken Irish University Model
Science is gay – we all know it but only few acknowledge it. The world is gay, so science, the study of the world, must be too. One of the fundamental flaws of tertiary education in Ireland is complete ignorance...
Civilisation vs Culture and the Mystery of St Maurus
History has shown us that there exists an antithesis between two traditions; that of ‘civilisation’ and ‘culture’. Civilisation, which resides in the hearts of the French, the Americans and the English, embodies the notion of ‘progress’; the betterment of humanity...
Liberalism is a Sin: Absolutism Fights Back
Doctor Don Felix Sarda y Salvany was a popular priest in Spain in the late 19th and early 20th century who was considered exemplary for the firmness of his principles and the clarity of his apostolate –centred upon charity and...
Young Catholics Object to Irish Synod Findings
The ongoing Irish Synod is presenting itself as an opening for liberal lobbies within and without the Church to gain traction for long-envisioned ecclesiastical and catechetical reforms. The Irish wing of a worldwide consultation of the faithful, as well as...