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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...
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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...
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How WB Yeats Got CUCKED – A Pick Up Artist’s Analysis
“We against whom you have done this thing are no petty people” – W. B. Yeats Introduction Intra-nationalist squabbles and petty disputes are an idiosyncratic fixation of mine: Othmar Spann’s distaste for Carl Schmitt; the mutual animosity betwixt the Blueshirts...
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Did the Irish Invent Bolshevism? Aodh de Blácam’s Gaelic Socialism
“Lenin and Trotsky in Russia battling against lies and force; Labour struggling against its self-appointed tyrants; the Gaelic tongue striving against the foreign jargon; Ireland striving against England all are but phases of the single war that still rages undecided,...
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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...
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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...
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Thomas777: An Interview with the Internet’s Cultured Thug
Editor's Note: Both the punctuation and capitalisation of the original piece have been preserved at the request of the author to maintain authenticity. Introduction: A Genuine Cultured Thug “Providence had not only rescued him from damnation but had, in fact,...
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Is Irish Nationalism Lacking an Aesthetic?
“We know of an ancient radiation That haunts dismembered constellations” The re-emergence of the Right in the late 2010s will be viewed as one of most significant developments in Irish politics by future historians. Although afflicted by a myriad of...
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Nazbol Sally: A Right Wing Extremist Reviews ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You’
Preface: I vowed never to read Rooney’s glorified chick-lit again… I was on an excursion to the Carpathian Mountains, accompanied by my Dacian irredentist comrade from the Blackrock College days, when I received a call at the foot of the...
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Are the Taliban Burkean Conservatives?
A Historicist Revolt in Jurisprudence “The Guilty Have No Past” – Death in June Edmund Burke’s ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ cemented, in the eyes of conventional scholars and lay people alike, his place as the father of modern...