Tag: Review
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...
Stakeknife: The Spy Who Made Modern Ireland
Freddie Scappaticci, Stakeknife was, according to the book’s blurb, “the British spy who played a leading role in the British intelligence war against the Provisional IRA.” Stakeknife, along with John Joe McGee, another British plant, infamously ran the IRA’s Nutting...
Irish Covid Satire? Review ‘Busting Anti-Vax Myths: Seriously EXPERT Arguments for the Covid-Deniers in Your Life’
If you have a weakened heart or nervous tremors brought on from a Covid vaccine you might have taken recently, then this book is not for you: you’ll laugh so much you could easily find yourself being put out of...
‘Ye Wife Swapping Sodomites!’ E Michael Jones’ and ‘Degenerate Moderns’
"Hither flock all the crowd whom love has wrecked Of intellectuals without intellect And sexless folk whose sexes intersect...." - Roy Campbell, 'The Georgiads' Introduction “G’way, ye wife swapping sodomites.” - Úna Bean Mhic Mhathúna The mere mention of Dr....
Quinn Country: The Wrath Of A Slighted Chieftain?
The documentary introduces itself with an image of a forgotten wasteland, the border region. A land of old laws and old customs. A land with no regard for metropolitan laws or liberal opinion. Abandoned by both governments, North and South....
Review: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
Andrew Doyle’s The New Puritans: How The Religion of Social Justice Captured The Western World begins and ends with America’s Salem Witch Trials. In between, he has twelve chapters, each of whose titles has a religious connotation and all of...
The Banshees of Inisherin Review/Rant
After recently watching An Cailín Ciúin, Arracht and Black ’47, I had high hopes for the Banshees of Inisherin (although mistakenly I did not watch the trailer) but after the first “feckin’”, or I should say multiple “feckins”, within the...
Barry Lyndon: Cinema From The Big House
It’s Christmas week, 1975. The population of Ireland is 3.2 million people. There is a hot war in the North of the country where the pre-Gaddafi era Provisionals and their ghetto guns are fighting an intense insurgency. It’s been a...
Review: Justin Barrett’s ‘The Nationalist Reset’
"When it ceased to be the means for fair transactions and became the determinant of transactions, it caught hold of the whole world, and enthralled it to arbitrary power. It was a brilliant confidence trick, the more so because people...
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune (2021): Technics Over Essence
This article was originally published by the blog “Excuse The Blood” and is syndicated with permission of the author. The announcement of a new adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel Dune has been the subject of much anticipation for at least a couple of...