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A Gaelic Medici? John Quinn: Patron of Modernism

After having established himself as a litigator to be reckoned with, Quinn turned his eyes to the land of his father. The Gaelic revival and Celtic Twilight entered their stride at this time. Griffith said that the Gaelic league attained vitality once it attracted idiots and geniuses alike to its ranks – Quinn belonged indubitably to the more cerebral quarter of its support base.

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Edenderry Power Plant Replaces Peat With Amazon Woodchip

It doesn't make any sense to import woodchip from halfway across the world, whether this be from an efficiency point of view or from a perspective of reducing emissions. This is a direct result of the government's ridiculous climate policy.

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Raymond Crotty: Escaping the Gaelic Latifundia

Documenting his experiences in the semi-biographical A Radical’s Response, Dunbell set in motion Crotty’s rise to become Ireland’s leading eurosceptic gadfly, germinating an original prognosis about Ireland’s economic dysfunction.

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Tobar Naoṁ Ḃríde

Life is the green algae

Clinging on — onto the Limestone’s Devonian imprint.

Time is the thin veil of water

Under which the flagstones shimmer.

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Synthwave in 2022

Like dubstep, since synthwave became a significant enough cultural phenomenon to permeate the mainstream, various purists have claimed its best days have past. While early synthwave has a unique, nostalgic charm… 2022’s electric gems are incredibly refined

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Hugh de Morrígan Hugh de Morrígan

A History of Ireland in a Church Door [Part 1]

“They have razed our proudest castles — spoiled the Temples of the Lord — Burned to dust the sacred relics — put the Peaceful to the sword — Desecrated all things holy — as they soon may do again, If their power to-day we smite not — if to-day we be not men!”

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The 4th Industrial Revolution: Liberalism’s Deathknell?

“If the current Western regime (Biden, Macron, and the others considered centre-left and centre-right) is to survive the social turmoil that will proceed and ensure the next industrial revolution, it is my belief that we will find ourselves in late-liberal authoritarianism.”

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Heroism in Irish Literature [Part 2]

“Through the literary distillation and communication of the inner-mind of the Irish nation, Gaelic literature is undoubtedly a resource of prime importance to the re-Gaelicisation of Ireland. “

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Heroism in Irish Literature [Part 1]

“The distinctive traits of Irish culture are demonstrable through the characterisation of heroism in Irish literature, in which the hills and fields of the Irish landscape are consecrated by heroic feats achieved on the battlefield, a tradition that is manifest in the aforementioned Dindsenchas place-naming tradition of Gaelic Ireland. “

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70s Rock Contra Capitalism:Four Perspectives.

“This is the essence of the capitalist American dream mentality, if you just forfeit any sense of belonging, community, tradition, or loyalty you will become materially wealthy. However, there is a reason it is called the “American dream” — because you would have to be asleep to still believe it. “

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Maine’s “Popular Government” and the Liberal-Elitist Tradition

“Such evils, according to Maine, include an opposition to free trade, Jacobitism, enmity to the protestant reformation, nationalism, and a hostility to vaccines, which Maine repeatedly mentions throughout the text – Maine would have been a quadruple vaxxed and triple boosted Luke Bro had he lived to witness covid.”

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Colonna’s Requiem // Over Ajaccio by Night

“In times of interregnum the evaporated power of Europe appears to flow and coalesce in the Mediterranean. The rocky outcropped islands seem to float above the tideless wine-dark waters which swirl around their banks.”

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It’s All Changing.

“So in these two Spheres there is something of a reorientation. It moves away from the old Left-Right spectrum which represented the perpetual revolution of Radical Liberalism (in which I include the majority of Leftism) against the maintenance of any traditional order or power structure. It moves away from this because quite simply there is virtually nothing left for them to rebel against, because the eternal rebels have achieved power— in their reign they have realised the total cogency of Free Love, Free (atomised) Individuals, and Free Markets.”

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