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.