What is the Purpose of an Irish State?
The purpose of the State is to provide the means for the Irish to become Gaels.
The Rus and The Gael: The Andropov Doctrine in Ireland
Ireland: a soft target in a digital war, where small strikes yield big wins for Moscow.
Against Cross-Community Outreach: Why Irish Nationalists Should Not Ally with Loyalists
Even if nationalists were in a stronger position to broach cross-community initiatives, the current environment of media smears and intelligence ops would not make it an inviting prospect or a straightforward one.
Fenian on the Pampas: The Nationalist Travel Writing of William Bulfin
A dreamer he was, of course, but still, he was a testament to the reality that as long as Ireland remains unfree, there will be men who will take up the spear and head to the province of war.
A Reader's Guide to the World of Counter-Cultural Irish Intellectuals
I wish to inspire our youth, upon reading this, to take it upon themselves to embrace and thank the great Irish intellectual voices who are still around today.
Informers as the Architects: MI5’s Role in Framing Modern Ireland
The peace process wasn’t just negotiated — it was managed.
We Were Never Meant to Be Neoliberal: Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo and the Longhouse of Softboy Ireland
It’s less of a romance and more of an autopsy—on family, intimacy, and whatever’s left of Irish collective life after the recession.
Palestinians, Boers, and Irish: What Would the Irish Founding Fathers Think of Palestinian Solidarity?
They didn’t consider acknowledging universal injustice as a distraction from their just cause; in fact, international solidarity and moral certitude bolstered it.
Are Nationalists Right? The Question of Moral High Ground
The battle for moral legitimacy is uphill when your own side denies the moral cause.
The Last Gasp of the Gael: It’s More Than a Housing Crisis
The Gael, once intrinsically tied to place, language, tradition, and continuity, is being priced out of its homeland and into extinction.
The Left, Republicanism and Mass Migration
Yet the left today remains oblivious to the fact that the national question in Ireland will eventually telescope into a multitude of national questions forged by the dreadnought of post-modern diversity
Braveheart and the Resurrection of the Gael
Gibson’s film has acted as the thin edge of the wedge that can part the Scottish psyche from British unionism and toward kinship with its Gaelic ur-culture.
Toward a Populist Programme for a Future Ireland
“There is no reason Ireland cannot move toward being a protectionist powerhouse once again.”
The Curious Case of the Corrib Gas Field: Corruption, Capture, and the Cost of Sovereignty
It remains a cautionary tale of how the promise of energy security can be undermined by poor governance and the silent encroachment of foreign interests.
Boycotts in Ireland - Past and Present
While nothing approaching the scale of the Land War’s boycotts has yet been implemented, the trend is beginning to emerge in the psyche of the movement. Tentative probes are being made towards ostracism.
In Defence of Gaeltwitter: A Rebuttal to Creeve Rua
“Ultimately, quality short-form content remains critical at this juncture. Demote it to a ‘pernicious release valve’ at your peril.”
Where Are the Warriors? Ireland’s Crisis of Feminine Conformism
“Ireland is really a collection of secret societies. For a rootless young man like myself, this had a strong allure.”
Filíocht Fridays: Against Gaeltwitter and Wasted Intellect
While endlessly intellectually stimulating, informative, and funny, I can’t help but come to the conclusion that Gaeltwitter acts as an incredibly pernicious release valve or playpen
Industrial Republican Manorialism: Toward the Modernisation of Irish Society
From the ruins of colonization and the drift of postmodern decline, a manorial republic can rise. One that is neither slave to foreign capital nor subject to bureaucratic inertia.
Ireland and the Hungary Connection: Reviewing and Reviving a Historical Parallel
"From Deák to Griffith, the fight was never just for land—it's for the soul of a nation."