Category: Articles
Traditionis Custodes: Does the Latin Mass Have a Future in Ireland?
News emerged recently that the Archbishop of Dublin and the Bishop of Cork and Ross have decided not to introduce restrictions on the Latin Mass in their respective dioceses. Greeted with relief by Traditional Catholics, the decision came in light...
Irish Times Group Claims €3 million in State Subsidies as Revenue Falls 8%
One of the more financially viable names in Irish journalism through its skillfully administered Trust, the Irish Times Group reported an 8% contraction in revenue for the year 2020 according to its annual financial report . With annual turnover falling from €110...
The Untenability of Statism and Individualism in an Age of Lockdown
“Under democratic ideology runs the current of fascism which overflows at the surface. But beneath that runs a countercurrent. Beware lest that countercurrent overflow! Beware lest you bestow upon it power by trying to close it off completely!” – Vilfredo...
Court of Hypocrisy
The Irish judicial system exists in a special place in the hearts of the neoliberal class in Ireland. It is somehow both all-powerful and yet utterly impotent, the ones who write the law and also the ones whose hands are...
TENI’s Troubles: Ireland’s Largest Trans NGO Has Funding Suspended Over Accounting Irregularities
Dark clouds have appeared over the nation's most vociferous trans advocates TENI Ireland, with a decision by the HSE to terminate public funding over flawed accounting. In emails seen by The Burkean, TENI, a regular feature on the NGO circuit,...
Junge Freiheit: How Germany Built a Populist Press
Founded by a coterie of nationalist students against a prevailing ethos of left-liberalism on campuses, Junge Freiheit (Young Freedom) has been an instrumental outlet for the German Right for over 30 years. Occupying an intersection between the Conservative, Populist and...
“Our Misery and Despair”-Denis Kearney’s Plea for Nativism 1878
A Cork born Californian trade unionist, Denis Kearney's historical existence posits some degree of awkwardness for those using the Irish Famine as a legitimising device for contemporary mass immigration. Fleeing poverty at home Kearney made a name for himself for...
Thousands March In Dublin Against Irish Government’s New ‘Apartheid’ Legislation
Thousands marched in Dublin this Saturday afternoon in protest against controversial new government legislation described, which has been described by some as implementing a system of medical ‘segregation’ and ‘apartheid’ in the country. The Legislation, seemingly passed in response to...
High-Low against the Middle-Globalism’s Moral Model
In my last article on the moral trichotomy, I ended with the line, “the master moralist will triumph in this world, the servant moralist will triumph in the next, while the slave moralist will triumph in their heads”. I hoped...
Desmond Fennell-Gaeldom’s Last Intellectual?
One of the country’s most plenteous philosophical careers came to an end last Friday with the passing of the preeminent Desmond Fennell. An intellectual jack of all trades, Fennell, who died at his Malahide residence last week, blazed a trail...