Tag: religion
Irish Paganism is a Farce, but it Shouldn’t Be
Over the past few months, this publication has been graced by a number of articles of the highest quality on Irish Catholicism. These articles, such as the one on Paul Cullen, illustrate in a beautiful manner the great philosophical and...
Protests and the Irish Right: A Harmful Indulgence
Protests and street-action have recently captured the imagination of many on the Irish Right. The desire to stage protests is not a new one, but an old one finally realised. The decimation of an effective left-wing opposition at a street...
The Desecration of Croke Park
The Eid al-Adha celebrations held at Croke Park made a lot of people very, very angry. The sight of some 200 traditionally clad muslims, praying in their traditional way, on the sacred soil of the Gaelic Athletic Association stung the...
Will the Soul Survive Covid-19
The former Chief of Staff for Barack Obama’s White House once chimed ‘You never let a serious crisis go to waste’. Such thought is apt for the current global COVID-19 virus. The response from various countries has been similar in...
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...
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...
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,...
Burke’s Right Minds: The End
This short essay marks the end of the Burke’s Right Minds series, in which many of Ireland’s top Conservative and Libertarian figures explained not just what it is they believe, but why it is that they believe what they believe....
Book Review: The Terror of Existence
Theodore Dalrymple is best known as a chronicler of British decline. A retired doctor and psychiatrist, he has written more books than most of us have had hot meals, but his most successful, Life At the Bottom and Our Culture,...
Burke’s Right Minds: Gary Kavanagh – Burkean Conservative
Burke’s Right Minds is a project exploring and promoting viewpoints within the conservative intellectual sphere, jointly run by The Burkean and the Edmund Burke Institute. Why I am a Burkean Conservative: What I believe is, at its core, simple -...