Month: October 2022
The Irish Rally: Gaelic Ireland’s Medieval Fightback-Eoin MacNeill 1919
The following are tracts taken from the 1919 work Phases in Irish History by Eoin MacNeil courtesy of An Cartlann The most casual reader of Irish history knows that within a few centuries of the Norman invasion, the authority of...
Maynooth’s Secular Seminary Takes Aim at Inner City Schooling
The pampered prats of Maynooth University and RTÉ are at it again. This time, the focus of their ire is on central Dublin. An American academic, “an interdisciplinary scholar whose historical interests intersect with interests in architecture, the built environment...
Meloni Warts And All: Fratelli Win Should Be the Beginning Not the End for Italian Nationalists
With a commitment to move the Italian embassy to Jerusalem, abet the war effort in Ukraine and clamp down on illegal migration, Fratelli d'Italia romped home comfortably in this month’s Italian general election. Displacing Brussels favourite and arch-technocrat Mario Draghi,...
Will Aoife Gallagher Be My TradWife? Web of Lies (2022)
The ISD’s Belated Introduction Baron George Weidenfeld lived a rather charmed life in his 90 years on earth. An Austrian émigré turned renaissance man for modern times, Weidenfeld was a linchpin of post-war European diplomacy, an architect of the Israeli...
Black Operations: The Intelligence War Against the Real IRA and Lessons for the Political Right
John Mooney, the journalist and relay point for British and Irish intelligence agencies, said something rather interesting on a recent episode of his podcast The Dark State with Ciaran O’Connor of the ISD. Mooney claims that the emergence of “right-wing...
Little Cashes In: Kinzen Sold to Spotify
Cha-ching! It's been a red letter week for the anti-misinformation outlet Kinzen with the company’s sale to the multimedia giant Spotify for an undisclosed sum. Inaugurated with as much media ballyhoo and brown nosing as could be expected by RTÉ...
The New Nomos of the Earth: The Rise of Federal Populism
The consensus amongst liberals in the 1990s and, arguably, since Adam Smith, was a belief in the ‘de-territorialisation’ of the world. This was the belief that globalisation was a force for good, an economic version of Christendom, that the invisible...
Athena: Netflix Drama Portrays Collapse of France into Civil War
"The only way to love France today is to hate it in its current form”- Pierre Drieu La Rochelle The French cinematic Tiber has been foaming with much blood this week with Netflix's release of the racially charged film Athena. ...