Letter to the Editor: Irish Tomfoolery and Roman Catholic Appropriation on a Lamentable St. Patrick’s Day
Moreover, I must remind this publication—despite its Catholic-leaning editorial stance—that St. Patrick was the founder of the ancient and esteemed Church of Ireland
An Ancestral Debt to Be Replaced? Ireland Owes the World Nothing
Our ancestors did not suffer so that we could throw away the gift of nationality.
The Cause of Ireland is the Cause Against Labour
Upon completion of my degree, my job hunt was stifled by a persistent anxiety that a friend or a girl I liked would see me in the debased condition of employment, a distress intensified by right-wingers (and my parents) telling me to get a job.
A Functionary Finds Himself in a Doomed, Sun Lacerated Vat
He felt like a gazelle adorned with a Francis Bacon death-mask, bereft of gas in the tank, caught betwixt a Lion pride with their crosshairs set on his jugular and a cackle of spotted hyenas eyeing up his pancreas
Scoil Éanna and the Machine: Neoliberal Ideology and Educational Apparatuses
The ideal educator was modeled on the poet-academic of Gaelic Ireland, An t-Ollamh, a figure of both intellect and insight.
Trasna na dTonnta: Irish Americans as Our Nation's Greatest Apostles of Independence
The Irish diaspora in America has often articulated a de-Anglicised dream of an Irish-Ireland better than those still living on our island.
The Absurdity of Hate Speech - The Case of CJ Hopkins
The introduction of hate-speech prohibitions into international law was championed in its heyday by the Soviet Union and allies. Their motive was readily apparent.
MEON Event: Our Gallant Allies: What Ireland Can Learn from Continental and American Populism
The event featured presentations courtesy of speakers from Rassemblement National, Vlaams Belang, and the New York Young Republican Club.
USAID’s Replacement? Irish Aid Gave €1 million to Fund Abortion Globally
As Musk’s DOGE continues its audit of American spending, it will be fascinating to see how the Irish NGO industry adapts
Immigration and Germany’s Election – A Brief Primer
One really is left wondering how bad things must eventually get before the people of Germany demand meaningful change.
A Review of Nosferatu: Vampires, Hypergamy, and the Death of Tragedy
Indeed, there is a sense in which Eggers’ choices give a remarkably candid display of the darker aspects of female nature.
Ó Athbheochan go hAthbheochan: Lessons from the Revival
Let us not merely aspire to the heights of our ancestors from a century ago, but to the heights which they aspired to.
China’s European Clearinghouse? Sino-Irish Relations in the Trumpian Era
“The navigation of Sino-Irish relations will be a defining feature of Ireland’s role in the age of multipolarity.”
Society and the Economy — Is Bigger Better?
Monopolies result in less flexibility, more bureaucracy and less innovation. Economies of scale are increasingly turning into diseconomies of scale.
An Rós Bán le Piaras Béaslaí
Chrion an bláth, ón chríon an bláth!
chríon is d'éag, níorbh fhada an tráth.
Ba shamhlaoid dáiríribh é:
ní buan ré don scéimh 's don ghrá.
‘The Mother’ by Pádraig Pearse
And tho' I grudge them not, I weary, weary
Of the long sorrow - And yet I have my joy:
My sons were faithful, and they fought.
Digital Displacement and Ethnocentric Escalation: Nationality in a Virtual Age
Nationality has weathered the storm of technological evolution before - why not again?
Two Tier Keir Goes Green: Starmer’s Faux-Environmentalism Threatens Ireland
Successive Irish Governments failed to express concern regarding the impact of British nuclear waste disposal on Irish citizens.
The Nationalist Case for Neutrality and Independence: Beware of Foreign Influence
"If we can become independent, if a small nation like Ireland could stand Free once again, we could forge the path of liberation for the rest of Europe"
Setting Foot on the Shingle Shore: Reconstitutive Potential in our Dreamtime
“We have embodied the Fomorian mindset. We shape the world to suit us, as opposed to allowing the world to shape us according to it, as the Tuatha Dé Danann did.”