Category: Reflections
Floyd Riots: A Critique of Impotent Rage, and the Future of Black Nationalism
There have been two main responses to the recent demonstrations in Minneapolis and other US cities. The first is that the rioting is justified to a greater or lesser extent. This stems usually from some argument that the destruction of...
The USI Chooses Oblivion
The Burkean looks with considerable dismay at the recent Annual Congress of the Union of Students of Ireland. While supposedly open to all, it's a cliquey process, largely occurring without the notice of the student population of Ireland, despite being...
Indo-European Ireland: A Discussion with Survive the Jive
The world isn’t set in stone. Religions change, tribes rise and fall, and cultures spread out and fade away. While over the period of a lifetime the world may appear stagnant and unchanging, the truth is that every single facet...
Elections, Europe, and Irish Freedom: A Talk With Hermann Kelly
The European Union is not the immutable behemoth it once was. The political bloc, although once appearing to be seemingly invincible, is starting to show its cracks. Largely as a result of the 2015 migrant crisis, as well as the...
Thoughts on Irish Taxation
There is much discussion about the tax code; whether it is broad based and whether we should be running surpluses. It is assumed that surpluses are the definitive measure of fiscal responsibility, though this isn't always the case. Governments ran...
Ireland: A Manifesto for Anti-Immigration Activism
When a few hundred thousand Greeks confronted the Persian world-system with a radical rejection of all it stood for, and refused to be absorbed, it seemed to all the Persians and to some intelligent Greeks mere pigheaded nationalism. But it...
Atlanticism and Ireland’s Post-Brexit Dilemma
Brexit and the English Connection: In cynical geopolitical terms, Ireland exists as the Western European equivalent of Belarus. An English speaking cultural appendage of Anglo-America surviving off FDI and with a monetary policy set in Brussels. For all the fanfare...
Edmund Burke and the Irish Canon
“Berkeley proved that the world was a vision, and Burke that the State was a tree, no mechanism to be pulled in pieces and put up again, but an oak tree that had grown through centuries” -W.B. Yeats Burke and the 20th Century: The Irish 20th century left many casualties in its wake. As the century drew to...
A Year in Review: 2018
It’s been an interesting year - but before we take a look at the developments here in Ireland, let’s review what happened on the world stage. In the United States passed another year of highly entertaining political drama. Tension seemed...
A Short History of Christmas
Christmas: that wonderful time of the year when the country, as well as the entire city of Dublin, seems to come alive with people. People who do merry things such as take up all the spots in the university library,...