Category: Culture & Arts
The Banshees of Inisherin Review/Rant
After recently watching An Cailín Ciúin, Arracht and Black ’47, I had high hopes for the Banshees of Inisherin (although mistakenly I did not watch the trailer) but after the first “feckin’”, or I should say multiple “feckins”, within the...
The Unholy Roman Empire: Atlanticism and the Second Russian Revolution
A new ‘Holy Roman Empire’ has formed across the world. It is a new ‘nomos’ of territorial and resource acquisition. ‘Nomos’ was the phrase Carl Schmitt borrowed from the Greeks to outline the scope of the new Europe. In this...
Violet Gibson: Left Revisionism Enters Silly Season
The scrapping of the historic barrel rang out across Merrion Square yesterday with an unveiling of a plaque to Violet Gibson, an oddball Anglo-Irish schizophrenic who failed to assassinate Benito Mussolini in 1926. Born to the well heeled Baron of...
Ireland’s Greatest Moments: An Alternative to the Newstalk Dribble
As Ireland’s Decade of Centenaries (2012 – 2022) comes to an end, the enlightened Newstalk team have drafted a list of Ireland’s “greatest moments” throughout the past 100 years. The following 20 bullet points have undoubtedly been deliberated upon for...
Mná na h-Éireann: Hidden Politics and Irish Sport
The women footballers of Ireland celebrating making the 2023 World Cup Finals has drawn flak all of us could have done without. Just as the Limerick hurlers sang Seán South of Garryowen, so also did these women stir a hornet's...
Aristotle on TikTok: The Radical Right and Digital Rhetoric
The twenty-first century has, to date, presided over a period of rapid development in the capabilities of digital software. There have been a variety of social, political, and cultural repercussions derived from the vast network of communication services provided by...
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...
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. ...
Who Lets Moore Street Rot?
Wandering down Moore Street the morning after hoodlums rammed Garda cars in Cherry Orchard, I chanced upon a glimpse of Dublin in the rarified ol' times. There, guitar in hand, surrounded by a phalanx of smiling Gardaí, was actor Phelim...