Thanks to Joe McVeigh for drawing my attention to this. Landlord, Landlord, my roof has sprung a leak. Don’t you ’member I told you about it way last week? Landlord, Landlord, these steps is broken down. When you come up yourself it’s a wonder you don’t fall down. Ten bucks you say […]
July, 2017
An interesting take on revisionism and Irish history
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‘Micheal Martin and Eoghen Harris: members of the same choir?’ by Joe McVeigh
I have found the FF leader Micheal Martin’s response to the appeal from SF leader, Gerry Adams TD puzzling. Gerry Adams TD suggested to the leaders of the political parties in south who profess to want to see a reunified Ireland to come together to discuss a way forward. Micheal Martin denounced Gerry’s appeal in the […]
Newton Emerson: the Nemesis of Sinn Féin
Below is a draft of a letter I sent to The Irish Times yesterday. I can’t think why they didn’t print it. Having trudged through yet another anaemic attack on Sinn Féin (‘Bid to end Stormont stand-off should be taken seriously’ Thursday 27 July 2017), Newton Emerson ends his column by turning from Sinn Féin […]
ABSTENTION FROM WESTMINSTER A PROVEN WINNER by Donal Kennedy
In the June 2017 United Kingdom General Election both the SDLP and Sinn Fein contested all eighteen constituencies in the North of Ireland. The electorate had a clear appreciation of the records of both parties and of their intentions. The SDLP promised that their candidates would, if elected, sit on the Commons benches and Sinn […]
Let’s see: how can we be even dumber than than themuns?
(I’ve just learnt from a Man Who Knows that the above picture is from last year. So maybe the dumber have seen the light this year – in which case read no further and go peruse Malachi O’Doherty’s Unauthoristed Biography of Gerry Adams…) There can only be one thing stupider than a unionist bonfire bedecked with Irish […]
‘My Mother has Gone Away’ by Randall Stephen Hall ©.
Ah now, boy”s a dear How would you measure thon? How an empty milk churn has no song today. Where has it gone? The fields are forlorn For the crows will not call. They have deserted us. Each and everyone of us, to fly and to fall Elsewhere, to be gone, to go […]
Bigotry & ‘Whataboutery’ by Joe McVeigh
In response to my condemnation of the burning of an effigy of the late Martin McGuinness, some anonymous brysonite under the pseudonym ‘Tam’ replied; “What about the real people Martin McGuinness burned?” Such a pathetic comment in relation to the burning of an effigy of Martin McGuinness on a Twelfth bonfire hardly deserves a […]
Lies and omissions – you mean there’s a difference?
I’m on holidays in France and I can’t begin to tell you how far away our divisions and accusations seem. The weather is warm, the streets full of holiday-makers, most of them French, and nobody knows or cares a damn about the state of society and politics in our North-East Nest. It’s at times like […]
‘Cultural Wars, Burning Flags and Leadership’ by John Gibson
I’d like to start by saying that my role model and unequivocal hero in life has always been Martin McGuinness. I’m assuming that this information comes as no shock to the readers of this blog, given that my only other contribution to Mr. Collins’ excellent site was a tribute I penned upon Martin’s death, however, […]