Category: Reflections
Fear Is the Key: How COVID and Eco-Panic Reshaped Irish Society
Fear Is the Key As a teenager, I read many of Alistair MacLean’s books. One title has stayed with me ever since: Fear Is the Key. Those words encapsulate precisely the strategy of our would-be controllers. And, to be fair,...
Catherine Connolly in Syria: A Personal Reflection and Anti-Imperialist Critique
Had Connolly genuinely been interested in the Palestinian people, Yarmouk Camp is less than 3 kilometres from where she stayed in Damascus, and Shehabi could have introduced her to several of the Palestinian regiments whose volunteers fought and died alongside...
The Twisted Hearts of Irish Abortionists
Those who have participated in these murderous acts are all accomplices in the killing of innocent children. They no longer share the heritage of Ireland as “the land of saints and scholars.” No, for them it is “the land of...
From Institution to Incarnation: Brother Kevin and Irish Catholic Renewal
A 90-year life upholding the Franciscan ideal of simplicity and charity came to an end yesterday as the media reported the death of Brother Kevin Crowley at a care home facility in Cork. Synonymous with tireless service to Dublin homeless...
Sovereignty as Sin? Why Irish Catholics Should Oppose Mass Migration
““Ní múchfar an tine seo, a lasadh ar an cnoc seo, go brách….” The Catholic Church in Ireland may be bruised, but it is not broken. Despite scandal, secularisation, and dwindling vocations, it remains a vital force in Irish civic...
“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...
Does Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc see Blueshirts in his Cornflakes? Confronting Red Revisionism
“Revisionism became a purge, a way of sanitising the Irish past to make it compatible with contemporary liberalism.”-Richard Kearney Does Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc see Blueshirts in his cornflakes each morning? The left-republican academic continues the media tour of his...
Black Sabbath: The Return of Christian Heavy Metal
“I believe in God. I am no worshipper of Satan. My kids do not hang from the ceiling while sleeping in the attic.” - Ozzy Osbourne “A Christian man is a man who is within himself, who puts out good...
The Order Review: A Gem Amongst the Coal, The ‘Woods Amongst the Trees
“Cattle die and kinsmen die, and so must one die oneself. But I know one thing that never dies: the fame of a dead man's deeds.” “The Order”, a film about an American nationalist group who became a major concern...
When Fintan Met Derek: RTÉ Documentary Puts Irish Whiggism Under the Microscope
The rhetoric was trite. The narrative was stale. But while the hour-long RTÉ biopic on the life and times of Fintan O’Toole didn’t tell viewers anything new about the person it was covering it nonetheless revealed a lot about the...