Tag: Republicanism
The SDLP’s Brussels Surrender: Why Eurofederalism Can Never Bring Irish Unity
Irish unity, if it is to mean anything, must not be brought about by surrendering our hard-won right to govern ourselves or on discarding the moral vision that sustained our people in darker times.
Against the Stickie Conspiracy Theory: No, the Workers’ Party Did Not Liberalise Ireland
Conspiracy theories can be the comfort blanket for both left and right, hard analysis takes just that bit of self-reflection. Within the Irish ‘Right’ there is a general notion that the genesis for contemporary progressive hegemony comes from the Stalinist...
Irish Republicanism’s Reaganite Wing? NORAID and the Sidelining of Conservative Irish-America
This week’s premier of the RTÉ documentary series, “NORAID: Irish America & the IRA” chronicling the rise and role of diaspora Irish-Americans during the Troubles years offers insight into the ideological machinations of the Provisional movement and more importantly the...
Ballymena Burns: Has Loyalism’s Containment Zone Broken Down
The uninitiated should abandon all pretence of knowledge when examining northern street politics. Beyond the sweet nothings of Stormont lies a sectarian web of covert deals, narco-politics, and a strategy of containment through the enabling of hooliganism by British intelligence....
UK’s Migrant Sex Crime Wave Reaches Ballymena
Last night, June 9th, saw Ballymena descend into a riot with multiple houses set alight and barricades constructed around the town as migrant homes were targeted. Local anger spilled over in the wake of multiple sexual assaults targeting teenage girls...
You Can’t Be Irish And March With Loyalists
Tens of thousands of Irish people marched last weekend against mass immigration on the most sacred time of the year to Irish Republicanism. In contrast, a handful of ignorant people have in the past 12 months tried to march with...
NATIONAL RALLY: DUBLIN’S MONSTER MEETING
Saturday the 26th April, saw the largest anti-immigration demonstration in Irish history, when thousands of protestors peacefully marched through Dublin city centre in a “National Rally”, marching from the Garden of Remembrance, along O’Connell Street, to the Custom House where...
Kneecap: Why the Irish Left Will Regret Legitimising Ethno-Nationalism
The Northern Troubles famously originated in a Civil Rights movement that went off the rails and ignited a sectarian timebomb primed since partition. An attempt to import MLK-style civil agitation into the six counties kicked the canister onto a society...
The Varadkar Foundation? What is Behind the Former Taoiseach’s United Ireland Pivot
We live in an era of liberal politicos reinventing themselves through backroom foundations and institutes. The Clintons mastered the trade in the late 90s only to be outdone recently by Tony Blair as his eponymous foundation became the rallying point...
John Crawley’s ‘The Yank’: Diaspora Idealism Versus Ceasefire Liberalism
The Yank: The True Story of a Former US Marine in the Irish Republican Army is the story of a man who plighted his troth to the Irish Republic and has remained faithful to it through thick and thin. In...