Category: Culture & Arts
Revisionists Run Rampant with Leaving Cert History Syllabus
In his far-ranging Gript essay castigating the proposed new Leaving Cert history syllabus, the Iona's Institute's David Quinn posits that the syllabus carries an explicit anti Catholic agenda, where the students are shoe-horned into believing that the Catholic Church and groups...
Halal or Kosher? Religious Animal Slaughter in Ireland
For years, the issue of religious slaughter has tended to be discussed in Ireland in the broadest and crudest possible terms. Halal and kosher are lumped together. Animal welfare concerns are dismissed as bigotry by some and treated as self-evidently...
My Experience with Ireland’s Trans Mafia
Some time ago, I attended a gathering in Dublin focused on strengthening family life. Needless to say, there was a counter-protest as well; that seems to be de rigueur these days. The contrast between the two groups was obvious and...
Europe’s Gallows: The Aphoristic Critique of Burke’s Heir
I pardon the contemporary reader for the aphoristic roughness that is about to follow: I claimno vainglory by it, only an urgent call that I think desperately needs to be heard. I. Ode to Europe – Panta Rhei Europe! Let...
Irish Art’s UBI Moment: Don’t Put Artists on the Subsidy Leash
The pandemic years tilted the stage in ways that the everyman can barely perceive, particularly in the power relationship between the Irish state and the media. A slew of emergency subsidies and support schemes quietly rewired incentives and normalised state...
St Brigid: The DFA’s New Gaia Cult
Maria Maynes' recent Gript article on how the Irish Deapartment of Foreign Affairs' witches have hijacked St Brigid's Day warrants multiple readings and multiple replies. Maynes, not to put too fine a point on it, is piqued that the Department argues that St Brigid's...
From the Liffey to the Danube: The Sinn Féin Ideal and the Hungarian Question-Gyöngyösi Márton
The following tract is taken from a 2003 pamphlet about the Irish rejection of the Nice Treaty by former MEP and Hungarian parliamentarian Gyöngyösi Márton and is syndicated with permission of the author. In light of the outcome and results...
Croke Park Versus Zionism: Why the GAA Can’t Decouple From Allianz
In a recent article titled "The Corporate Capture of the GAA", the Communist Party of Ireland's Socialist Voice magazine informed us that Allianz's massive sponsorship of the GAA must be ended to "save the soul of the GAA". Their excuse for destroying the...
Basic Income for the Arts: Between Gabriele D’Annunzio and the Immanentisation of the Eschaton
Another important fallacy that fuels this narrative is the idea that a Universal Basic Income will boost personal freedom. The premise being that one is not free to make choices unless one possesses sufficient material means to back them up...
Oasis At Croke Park: The Triumphant Return of Gaelpop
Finally, the Gallagher brothers made a return to their country by blood to play two back-to-back nights at Croke Park. You may remember from my article last year when the band announced their reunion that I was unable to secure...