Poetry: Lay Your Weapons Down, Young Lady by Piaras Feiritéar
These weapons put behind you:
hide henceforth your curling hair;
do not bare that white breast
that spares no living man.
Don’t Be Fooled by Fine Gael’s Trasformismo on June 7th
Against tokenistic half-measures, let us prove to Fine Gael that the Irish are not a foolish people - vote for nationalists on June 7th!
The European Union's Overreach: is its "Cure" Really Just Poison in Disguise?
The EU, empowered to regulate very large online platforms by the DSA, threatens to stifle legitimate discourse and muzzle dissenting voices.
A Call To The People of Ireland
By preserving Gaeilge, we preserve a unique perspective on the world, a perspective that is rooted in the landscapes and traditions of Ireland.
Poetry: ‘The Fool’ by Pádraig Pearse
O wise men, riddle me this: what if the dream come true?
What if the dream come true? and if millions unborn shall dwell
In the house that I shaped in my heart, the noble house of my thought?
Folklore: The Whiteboys in Kilmaine
In the time of the White-boys, I often heard my father say that no man of the name of Mullen, Moloney or Staunton was allowed to join or take the oath of the White-boys.
Common Sense Populism and the Irish Revolt - On a Timely Conference in Brussels and the National Voice
Only time will tell if Ireland’s vox populi, against massive establishment efforts, will continue to find its voice.
The Poetry of Dispossession: The Irish-American Cinema of John Martin Feeney - Part 3
The Irish nationalist John Mitchel advised the Irish in America to assimilate or face an unhappy fate. Feeney is characteristic perhaps of that unhappy fate.
An Interview with Nick Delehanty
We are an island, off an island, off the edge of Europe. We have never faced immigration issues on this scale before.
The Poetry of Dispossession: The Irish-American Cinema of John Martin Feeney - Part 2
Feeney's films exalt in themes of tradition, family and community as no other American filmmaker ever has. His evocation of social cohesion in the transience of social ritual is often sublime. But is it a facade?
‘On Behalf of Some Irishmen not Followers of Tradition’ by George William Russell
We would no Irish sign efface,
But yet our lips would gladlier hail
The firstborn of the Coming Race
Than the last splendour of the Gael.
Folklore: Local Heroes - A Sword Fighter
Roche stepped out of a bohreen with a sword in his hand and said, “I defy any two men single handed and no person will dare pass.”
For Art, For Ireland: George William Russell’s Polemic Against Rudyard Kipling
In Ireland every poet we honour has dedicated his genius to his country without gain, and has given without stint, without any miserly withholding of his gift when his nation was in dark and evil days.
The Poetry of Dispossession: The Irish-American Cinema of John Martin Feeney - Part 1
Feeney established a tradition of cinematic poetry, steeped in Irish race-memory, which his ancestral homeland ought to have embraced.
Bambie Thug Represents Everything Wrong with Modern Ireland
Bambie Thug’s performance only indicates that she may be more comfortable in a psych ward than on international television
Ukraine as South Tyrol, or the Red Herring That Ensures European Vassalage
“Europe, the continent that once held the world in its palms, now seems content to be a junior actor in American geopolitical endeavours.”
The Atlantic On Favourable Terms: Why Georgia’s Colour Revolution Really Matters
The next chapter of the EU story may stretch from the Donegal foothills to the borderpasses of Azerbaijan by decade’s end should Eurocrats pull off this wave of expansion
Evaluating Contemporary Irish Republicanism
Immigrants have been recorded as leaning toward a pro-British position on a United Ireland when polled. Why would they care for a centuries old blood-feud?
Poetry: ‘My Mother Tongue’ by Maisie McAllister
My Irish isn’t clean, my grammar doesn’t gleam
In this soft light, but I still like
It’s punctuality, musicality, the spirituality with which we once spoke
My mother’s tongue was cut from my throat
Folklore: The Dead Coach
"That", says Father Lyng to him, "is the headless coach and the devil driving it".