Category: History
Kneecap: Why the Irish Left Will Regret Legitimising Ethno-Nationalism
The Northern Troubles famously originated in a Civil Rights movement that went off the rails and ignited a sectarian timebomb primed since partition. An attempt to import MLK-style civil agitation into the six counties kicked the canister onto a society...
Saint Brigid’s Day; Official Ireland’s Gaia Cult?
The decline of social Catholicism in Ireland has thrown up a multitude of phenomena, not least the growing official worship of Imbolc and a progressive retelling of Saint Brigid. Bríd, the Gaelic woman who brought Christianity to Louth, the saint...
Blame the Centre Not Sinn Féin For Mass Migration
This article was first published on the following Substack and is syndicated with the author's permission. Global interest in the Irish situation has risen since the November riot in Dublin, which was sparked by the stabbing of three school children...
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...
Debunking The Guardian’s Version of Irish Identity
A recent piece in Britain’s leading publication in moral lecturing and liberal preening The Guardian is reminding Irish people, amid a wave of nativist rage and anger, that they are in fact mongrels or “a mixed bunch” and should therefore embrace open...
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...
John Crawley’s ‘The Yank’: Diaspora Idealism Versus Ceasefire Liberalism
The Yank: The True Story of a Former US Marine in the Irish Republican Army is the story of a man who plighted his troth to the Irish Republic and has remained faithful to it through thick and thin. In...
Diversity in an Irish Town; The Great Replacement and the Six Counties
Dublin’s bank holiday rally just past is indicative of a seashift in national opinion with the Irish quickly registering an unexpected volkish volte-face against mass migration previously unthought of. The cat is not just out of the bag but is...
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...
Gaelicism in Practice: William Rooney
Extracts from a longform essay "Gaelicism in Practice" by William Rooney, The United Irishman, January 12, 1901. “Those Penal Days,” of which Davis sung, though the acme of all that fiendish cruelty and bigoted injustice could devise, as far as...