July, 2016

AN OFFER IRISH CITIZENS MUST REFUSE by Donal Kennedy

On 22 December 1921  Dail Eireann Deputy, General Richard Mulcahy, Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army addressed the Dail concerning Articles of Agreement recently signed in London – “None of us want this Treaty. None of us want the Crown.None of us want the representative of the Crown.None of us want our harbours […]

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JEST YE NOT, MADAM !

  I suppose we all needed a light-hearted laugh after all the trauma and Shakespearean drama of the disembowelling of government and the impending divorce from Europe. After Brexit has been finally agreed and we leave the Eurropean Community to pave our own path in the world.As I said , we needed a bit of […]

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MAD BOMBERS? TIME TO PANIC? by Donal Kennedy

It seems to me that most British voters are mad about bombs and that any Labour politician who is serious about political power must share their passion. The most successful Labour politician was Clement Attlee, and he and a tight clique of his colleagues determined that Britain would have the atom bomb. Neither the electorate […]

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Theresa May: Unionist

  Just when you think things can’t get any crazier, Theresa May makes her Downing Street statement. What was crazy about it? Well you might start with her declaration of herself as a member of the Conservative and Unionist Party, and how she values the “precious, precious Union”. Why such emphasis? And why so early […]

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‘Sectarian Orange Order bonfires’ by Tom Cooper

Perhaps one reason why the Northern state turns a blind eye to the naked sectarianism displayed at 11th July bonfires is the fundamentally sectarian foundations of the British Constitution. The Act of Settlement of 1701, the cornerstone of the British constitution, forbids the Monarch, its spouse or any of the great office holders of state […]

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FORGETTING THAT WE REMEMBERED? by Donal Kennedy

In  the song -“THE FOGGY DEW” , in James Carty’s “CLASSBOOK OF IRISH HISTORY” , in THE IRISH PRESS and in the UNITED IRISHMAN, Irish Nationalists and/ or Republicans, writing in English, remembered Irishmen’s involvement off Jutland and at Gallipoli, the Somme and other battles of the First World War. Writing in Irish, the most popular […]

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Revolution and counter-Revolution

Sometimes it’s done with subtlety, sometimes with high-handed bluntness. The Labour Party’s National Executive Council has gone for the blunt thing. Most of British politics has been sucking in its breath, wondering and envying the Labour Party for the 150,000 new party members who’ve signed up since BREXIT. Isn’t that amazing? A widening of active interest in […]

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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO DECORUM by Donal Kennedy

The piece below was submitted to Jude on Sunday, when the DOGS’ BREAKFASTS cooked by unprincipled and irresponsible politicians in both these islands suggested the comments made. The withdrawal of the bird-brained challenger for the Tory leadership doesn’t invalidate the comments made then. Both islands are in Terrible States of Moral and Political Chassis which […]

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COMING UP ROSES? by Donal Kennedy

  I’ve just consulted Wikipedia on Laurence Olivier’s HENRY V film whose battle scenes were filmed in  1944 in Neutral Ireland ,as propaganda for the British forces and population. It says that Olivier had met with Winston Churchill, who advised him what was required. The battle scenes were filmed in the Powerscourt Estate on the […]

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