Tag: Colonialism
His Grace’s Hills: Lismore and the Scandal of Absentee Ownership
The dispute in Lismore, County Waterford, has rightly provoked anger. Hill farmers, some of whose families have worked the same ground for generations, are facing proposed rent increases that in some cases rise to around €5,200. Farmers have described these...
Barry Lyndon: Cinema From The Big House
It’s Christmas week, 1975. The population of Ireland is 3.2 million people. There is a hot war in the North of the country where the pre-Gaddafi era Provisionals and their ghetto guns are fighting an intense insurgency. It’s been a...
Eagles Amid the Ruins: Syrian Nationalists Reflect After 11 Years of War
Syria’s National Vanguard Syria passed a morbid landmark in March 2021 marking the 10 year anniversary since the outbreak of protests and subsequent Western backed hostilities against the al-Assad government. Arguably the defining conflict of the century so far, the civil...
Defending the Classics Against Wokeness —An Irish Student Experience
I used to think that having reached my third year at college I could no longer be shocked by the wokeness which permeates the university campus, its students and faculty. I thought I would be able to grit my teeth...
Nextpolis – Why Did The Irish Government Consider Selling Parts of Ireland For a Chinese City-State
A bout of mild mortification gripped the Department of Foreign Affairs this week, or at least should have, following a revelation by The Times newspaper. The revelation was of lobbying by property magnate Ivan Ko, who sought to plant a...