Tag: Nationalism
Irish Birth Rate Slumps 22% in 10 Years
Despite a slight 4% jump in births for 2021 the birth rate in the Irish Republic has witnessed a sharp 22% drop since 2011 according to newly released CSO statistics. With total live births at 58,433 and a natural increase...
Dissident Republicans Rattled by Another Informant Scandal
There has been an interesting development in the North, for those watching, over the last number of weeks. The dissident republican outfit Saoradh claims to have discovered a British agent with the Sunday World quoting various 'dissident sources' about the...
A National Historiography For a National Resurrection
Introduction: “The spiritual thing which is the essential thing in nationality would seem to reside chiefly in language (if by language we understand literature and folklore as well as sounds and idioms). And to be preserved chiefly by language; but...
Stormont Elections: Sinn Féin Takes the Wheel
Stormont looks set to be getting a lick of green paint with Sinn Féin now officially overtaking the DUP as the statelet’s premier party. Riding on the back of demographic shift and a political crisis within unionism, the Shinners romped...
The Berkeley Library Should be Renamed
Introduction Well the drunken clown's still hanging round” – Townes Van Zandt, ‘Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel’ In ‘The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland’, Douglas Hyde laments that the Irish are “a nation of imitators”. Little has changed to refute the...
Spain Against Barbarism: The Philosophy of the Falange
Introduction: “In order to implement all these things, there is to defeat, certainly, countless resistors. All selfishness will be opposed; but our motto has always been that: it is not about saving the material; property, such as we knew it...
Yvan Colonna: Riots in Corsica After Murder of Nationalist Icon by Jihadi
Lost amid blanket coverage of the Ukrainian crisis, this month’s rioting on the French administered island of Corsica has slipped under the radar for most. Taking the form of intense street level actions by Corsican separatists, the trigger for the...
Globo-Homo Dublin: An A-Z Guide
"The bus for town left days ago...Damn them that brought me here" —The For Carnation, A Tribute To Introduction Preliminary note: for those unacquainted with the Fair City, please watch this video as a primer. An aeon ago, as a...
Misplaced Nostalgia and the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement
“From what I can gather from my slight knowledge of ancient Ireland, I find no reason to conclude that either screech or fatalism is indigenous to [our] race. How far it is within the power of [Ireland’s] will to alter...
Will Ukraine Crisis Force Ireland to Militarize
The last number of days have seen an enormous Western reaction to events in Ukraine - from Germany announcing it would double its defence spending and put Nordstream 2 on ice, to Western powers providing significant quantities of war material...