Tag: Irish Right
The Irish Right’s Cart-Before-the-Horse Problem: A Reply to Cormac Lucey
The Irish Right has, in recent years, developed a curious habit. It has begun writing manifestos for a movement that does not yet exist. Policy papers are drafted. Platforms are proposed. Solutions are offered - often thoughtful, often detailed, sometimes...
What Does Irish Right-Wing Unity Look Like?
The farmer and the cowman should be friends, Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends. The cowman ropes a cow with ease, the farmer steals her butter and cheese, But that's no reason why they cain't be friends...
A Broad Church for the Irish Right?
I wrote a few days ago about the failure of Irish populists to organise. The piece was pessimistic because pessimism was the only intellectually honest response to the evidence. Reality, so far, has not been especially generous. One observation in...
IRL Forum, Bannon and the Irish Right’s Closing Window of Opportunity
John Buchan’s Greenmantle is often misread as little more than a period adventure novel. In reality, it is a study in political uncertainty - and in what happens when a moment opens up, but nobody is ready to seize it....
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...
Youth2000 and the Irish Right
Last weekend the annual Youth2000 main conference took place in Clongowes Wood College in Kildare. The Burkean went along and spoke to two attendees of a right leaning mindset to get their take on the weekend and the way ahead...