The one theme tying these works together is they are representations of what innovative and independent Irish thinking looks like in practice

For them, saving our native identity was an existential matter because without our ethnos… there would be no ‘Ireland’ worth contributing to.

The importance of Fennell in this regard is in providing an intellectual formulation of a populist ideology which stands the test of time.

Desmond Fennell was Ireland's finest modern intellectual. Luckily for dissidents, his body of work also lays out the essential intellectual project of modern Irish Nationalism.

Desmond Fennell's infamous work 'Uncertain Dawn' attempts to link the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as the beginning of the end of the West.