The cat is the perfect companion for the solitary figure, the scholar, the introvert, for they both share the deep kinship of those who care nothing for social approval and who are uncompromising in their freedom and independence.

The first question is brutally simple as the AI rollout occurs: what Irish systems would break if Washington switched off a model overnight? AI is not just a chatbot function on a government website, but the architecture upon which our state may soon subsist.

If the presence of a relatively similar group has had the consequence of maintaining the British occupation of the six counties, one conjectures with horror regarding the rotten fruit that awaits us in an increasingly diverse Ireland.

Advocacy of our culture takes place in many domains, and the visual space of national clothing, despite the efforts of Pearse, Ashe, Joyce, and O’Curry, has been underutilised.

Pearse was deeply versed in this Platonic, mythopoetic mode of thinking. When he invoked the mythical hero Cuchulain as a symbol of Irish resistance, he made that ancient Gaelic champion a dynamic, live-action reality again. Cuchulain stalked indeed ‘through the Post Office’ and gave an extra, mythic edge to what otherwise might just have been another routine political uprising.

It is time that those who propose to make Ireland Irish, declared open war upon those who are paid to make it English.

Regime Aparatchik baseball cards?

Official Ireland meets ‘80s nostalgia.

The latest by Jack Napes for MEON.

MEON is proud to present a translation of Nichita Stănescu's many "Ars Poetica" pieces, reminiscing on the powers of the file across cultures and time, written as he neared the end of his own life.

Today, sterile Belgian social democracy plays the role of WASPs, with Moroccans taking the place of the Irish and Sicilians.

Visitors to both sites will be afforded the opportunity to contemplate the meaning and implications of the concept of utility and the ephemeral nature of, as we are sure you will agree, everything.

Filth in Flanders: ‘Ex Drummer’ mires the viewer in the seedy subaltern underbelly of small town lumpenproletariat existence terrorised by a manipulative Mephistophelean intellectual.

Was the bloodshed for the sake of whim or cosmic salvation, asks Ulick Fitzhugh.

This would be a work tackling the proper Catholic role in warning against, and regulating, the expansion of destructive technologies, with runaway AI as the main antagonist.

The concomitant process of profit and chungus-Irishness-patronage erode whatever of robustness and seriousness partakes vitally today of the Irish tradition.

This ethnic denial of the Ulster-Brit is widespread throughout the history of the national movement. Only a few nationally minded thinkers like Desmond Fennel accept the reality of the Ulster-Brit.

No manifestos. No chestertonian chungus poetry clubs. BMI: LOW. Chiseled - yes. Archive everything, study, research, read - SLIENCIO. Then produce. That is our formula. We have not once gained political power, yet the world is frightful before an apparition. This is art. The horror!

While all unique in their own way, it almost seems like every developed country has produced a national prophet of rootedness and independence against neoliberal progressivism.

The Epsteins of the world would have us be Englishmen: naïve, civically minded, conformist, trusting, decent, reticent to rock the boat. Let us defy him. Let us be Irishmen: wary, uncouth, defiant — like the men of Soloheadbeg.

MEP Tomasz Froelich argued that in an era of American, Russian, and Chinese power-politics, European patriots must articulate a pan-European project of their own to ensure our continent’s sovereignty and survival.

When you die, will there be anything remotely resembling this? Depending on who you are, you may have thousands of followers, and personally know hundreds of people, but would a single see you as a martyr like Seán South?

Representative democracy is all about the illusion of control. The belief that the system will be responsive. That one can effect change if only the right button is pushed a sufficient number of times.