Category: Culture & Arts
A4 Sounds: Who Is the Left Wing Art Collective Sucking Up Art Subsidies?
You’d be forgiven for overlooking A4 Sounds’s art studio, situated just before the Mater Hospital in the bosom of Dublin’s north-inner city. Ensconced firmly in O’Casey country just off Dorset street, the gallery and workspace has been catering for a...
Gaelish: A Proposal
Does Ireland exist? Is there such a country as Ireland? This question occurs to me more and more as time goes by. There is certainly a large island to the west of Britain which is denoted by that name. The...
A Plea for Irish Legislative Independence-Henry Grattan
Speech Given to Irish Parliament, April 19, 1780. Dutifully uploaded by An Cartlann Sir, I have entreated an attendance on this day that you might, in the most public manner, deny the claim of the British Parliament to make law...
The White Plague: Frank Herbert’s Irish Pandemic Dystopia
The following article first featured on the site Excuse The Blood and is syndicated with permission of the author. Frank Herbert will be primarily known as the author of the Dune series, to the extent that its popularity outweighs and obscures his...
Cardinal Marx and the Future of the Church
Having travelled to Rome in May to offer his resignation as Archbishop of Munich and Freising, Cardinal Reinhard Marx received the Pope’s response today. Francis rejected the proposal, and called on bishops worldwide to take greater responsibility for the abuse crisis....
A Meditation on the Sigma Male Revolution and its Meaning in the Modern World
[FOR IDEAL SIGMA READING EXPERIENCE: listen to Sergio Valentino’s ‘Drive Forever’ (xakavir Remix)] It's Better to be a Sigma for a Day Than a Betabux All Your Life “As you can imagine, I am quite the celebrity, and am treated...
What Explains Covid Youth Shaming in Ireland?
There was much crying and gnashing of teeth from politicians and government officials Saturday over mass outdoor gatherings of mostly young people in Dublin and Cork. After over a year’s worth of lockdowns, the drink-filled gatherings were lambasted by a...
Will Liberal Morality Triumph?
In the first essay of Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality, the philosopher outlines the antagonism between what he describes as master morality and slave morality. Nietzsche, living in the latter half of the 19th century, is disgusted by...
Agallamh le Clann Éirí Gréine
An Burcach: I gcúpla fhocal, mínigh dom cad é an grúpa atá agaibh? Chlann Éirí Gréine: ‘S muid sluagh (grúpa) athbheochán cúltur 's teanga na n-Gaedheal abhaile 'gus trasna na domhain eadar muinntear Ghaedhealach ann fosta. Ba mhaith linn do...
When Wilhelm Reich Inspired Solar Cults in Roscommon
"Deformity in Conformity, I Found This, I Found This" “Sorel […] reproached Maurras for being too democratic, a reproach which, at first glance, can appear paradoxical. In reality, what Sorel wanted to say is that Maurras, positivist and intellectualist, had...