Category: Reflections
When Fintan Met Derek: RTÉ Documentary Puts Irish Whiggism Under the Microscope
The rhetoric was trite. The narrative was stale. But while the hour-long RTÉ biopic on the life and times of Fintan O’Toole didn’t tell viewers anything new about the person it was covering it nonetheless revealed a lot about the...
The Whitepills and Blackpills for Irish Nationalism After GE24
"Bíonn grásta Dé idir an dá throm…." Regardless of whether you classify the results of last week’s general election as an electoral bridgehead to the mainstream or a fatalistic argument against electoral politics, sober analysis is the most advantageous strategy...
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...
LETTER TO THE IRISH TIMES: NO QUÉ QUÉ QUÉ, NO AIDEOLF, NO WAY!
(Editor:This post is mostly satire, but still somehow less bizarre than Irish government policy. Nothing here should be interpreted as libelous, GRMA) I am very grateful for Conor Gallagher’s article “Former Ku Klux Klan leader mentoring Irish far-right extremists online”...
Road House Review: A Cult Classic is Born!
*Disclaimer: I have not seen the original Road House* “It’s no Shawshank Redemption, but it does what it says on the tin.” - Lanklet Dev Snr. “Lads. Every McGregor scene is Gigakino.” - X (formerly Twitter) user, Big Atom Shill...
“Notions” Are Good, Actually.
There are few things worse for an Irish person than being called out for having “notions”. The accused is thought to be prideful, self-obsessed, narcissistic, and possibly delusional. In reality, “having notions” means having ideas above your station. The Irish,...
‘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...
Rajputana and Decadence: a Warning to European Civilisation
This article has been syndicated with the permission of the Swedish publication Konservativ debatt. It has been translated into English from the original Swedish. Rajputana, Land of the Rajputs, in the early 12th century, was a kingdom filled with majestic...
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" -...