Category: History
Irish Republicanism’s Reaganite Wing? NORAID and the Sidelining of Conservative Irish-America
This week’s premier of the RTÉ documentary series, “NORAID: Irish America & the IRA” chronicling the rise and role of diaspora Irish-Americans during the Troubles years offers insight into the ideological machinations of the Provisional movement and more importantly the...
Kylemore and the Culture War: @TuathaIreland’s Twitter Demise
Since Elon Musk has taken charge, Twitter has changed to the point of rebranding its name to X. Before this takeover, it was a ruthless place for those in the dissident sphere with the ban hammer at the ready for...
From Bonfires to Bedfellows: Lasair Dhearg Lifts Lid on Antifa’s Loyalist Romance
Lasair Dhearg held an event on 26th February, 2025, in Derry to discuss the rise of anti-immigration sentiment in Ireland. On the 2nd March, a video of the event was posted to Lasair Dhearg’s YouTube channel. It flew largely under...
Kingship and Community: The Roots of Hierarchy in Irish Political Culture
The following was first published in 'The Occidental Quarterly' and is syndicated with permission. Features of Irish collectivism and hierarchy Ethnic groups organise their societies in particular ways according to their group psychological differences. These differences have been outlined by...
Will Irish Republicanism Manage a ‘Vibeshift’ on Migration Question?
Irish Republicanism has gone down a bad road, and it needs to turn back quickly, for its own sake and for the nation’s sake. Republicans are now making themselves into enemies of ordinary Irish people. This is unprecedented and serious....
De Valera, Schrödinger, and Why Ireland Will Not Attract anti-Trump Scientists
Let's imagine, in one of Erwin Schrödinger's parallel universes, I was charged with providing the brain power for a Max Planck Institute based in an Ireland at peace with the world and with itself. No problem. I would charter a...
“Something to do with not liking Churchill,” Laura Perrins and the Anglophile Death Drive
Conservatives often like to hover between “my country, right or wrong” and some abstract defence of “the national interest.” But some rightists in Ireland appear to want to buck that trend entirely—and instead park themselves squarely on the tarmac at...
Analysis in Decay: Burn Them Out!: A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc
Clare-based historian Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc has published a new book titled Burn Them Out!: A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland (2025). This is a hot-button topic and certainly one of interest to readers of the...
Kneecap: Why the Irish Left Will Regret Legitimising Ethno-Nationalism
The Northern Troubles famously originated in a Civil Rights movement that went off the rails and ignited a sectarian timebomb primed since partition. An attempt to import MLK-style civil agitation into the six counties kicked the canister onto a society...
Saint Brigid’s Day; Official Ireland’s Gaia Cult?
The decline of social Catholicism in Ireland has thrown up a multitude of phenomena, not least the growing official worship of Imbolc and a progressive retelling of Saint Brigid. Bríd, the Gaelic woman who brought Christianity to Louth, the saint...