Category: Culture & Arts

Xenophilia – How Conservatives & Nationalists View the Other

Conservatives and nationalists are regularly accused of being xenophobic. In this simple article, I want to make the case that the opposite is true– that conservatives and nationalists are deeply xenophilic. Far from hating the things that are strange and...

/ 21/01/2022

(Not So) New To The Parish – #3 Father Ted, Or How The Snake Eats The Tail

I grew up watching British comedies, and I still watch many of them, with the likes of Bottom, I’m Alan Partridge and The League Of Gentlemen being particular favourites. Seeing Father Ted of course stuck out like a sore thumb....

/ 15/01/2022

Lucy Michael Finds God? Diversity Lobby Comes for Irish Anglicanism

Is God a white man? How many frumpy Fingal feminists can dance on the head of a pin? Such theological questions and more may be meditated upon by Dr Lucy Michael as she is tasked by the Anglican Church in...

/ 14/01/2022

Irish Nationalism and Aesthetics: A Response

The essay “Is Irish Nationalism Lacking an Aesthetic” by Ulick Fitzhugh raises many interesting ideas and opens room for further reflections. The central question being asked is does Irish Nationalism need an aesthetic to aid in its success. In short,...

/ 11/01/2022

EU Recognition Suffocates Irish Revival

“The speaking of Irish is not an end but a means to an end: the end is Nationality.” – Pádraig Mac Piarais Non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment in Irish is ráta dífhostaíochta gan éifeacht ar bhoilsciú. Phenylazobenzene in Irish is...

/ 08/01/2022

John Mitchel: The Fenian Who Fought the 19th Century

It is quite fitting that John Mitchel’s birth year coincided with the final defeat of the great Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo. Born as the son of a Presbyterian minister near Dungiven, County Derry, Mitchel was from what could be described...

/ 03/01/2022

Fitzcarraldo: The Triumph of Gaelic Autism

“Hey, white boy, what you doin' uptown? Hey, white boy, you chasin' our women around?”  – The Velvet Underground, ‘I’m Waiting for the Man’  A film whose production process was mired with difficulty — owing to the technical problem of...

/ 28/12/2021

Vatican Takes Another Swipe at Latin Mass

The release of a new document from the Vatican has ignited controversy and further inflamed tensions within the Catholic Church since its publication on Saturday.  The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments released its "Responsa ad dubia"...

/ 21/12/2021

(Not So) New To The Parish #2 – From Norf FC to Skibbereen

This is the second part of a series of articles in which I intend to look at various aspects of Irish cultural and social life through the eyes of a foreign onlooker. It is intended to be a cultural autobiography...

/ 20/12/2021

Anti-Fragility and the Right: Why the Banning of Imperium Press and Mystery Grove Matters

“I posted this last time we got banned and it's still true: we're so antifragile that liberalism doesn't know what to do about it. Our "network-of-networks" dynamic can reconstruct online scenes very quickly…This is because of something ancient and very...

/ 18/12/2021