July, 2019

Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3                                           Photo 1:    The legendary links of Port (No) Rush, on the shores of the earthly Sea of Tranquility, the Mediterranean,  where the first SHUT  in yonks, as The Yanks  […]

SANYO DIGITAL CAMERA                                        The first thing to be said is that at long last the conundrum-di-dum surrounding Mutt and Jeff’s  much postponed Second Song Syndrome has been solved. And not, sez you, before 3-4 time neither. […]

Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “Policing is and always has been one of the crucial issues in The North/Northern Ireland. I wish the new Chief Constable  for Northern Ireland well. And I know, for the uninitiated, that terminology in regards to  Northern Ireland can be a political minefield. Nonetheless, I felt I had […]

Nearly 120 years ago a fake newsreel was shot on London’s Hampstead Heath purporting to show scenes from South Africa where  the UK  was waging war. In 1920 Pathe News shot a fake newsreel purporting to show the aftermath of a (non-existent) ambush at Tralee, County Kerry, but Dubliners  recognised  thefashionable, seaside Vico Road in […]

Like most semi-sane people, I  Got Out last weekend.  In my case it was to London, where not even the death-rattle of the most savagely-punished Lambeg could  get to me. In its place I enjoyed the company of children and grandchildren, along with palate-ravishing food and heart-warming drink. On Sunday I went to Mass. Which […]

  IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “ Noted historian Eamon Phoenix gives a very useful background to the beginning of The Troubles fifty years ago. Important reading for Members of Congress concerned about justice and peace in Northern Ireland/The North.” —Fr. Sean Mc Manus Marking 50 years since The Troubles […]

The Old Head of Kinsale Lusitania Museum Committee is planning to spend 4,000,000 Euro to build and equip a museum devoted to the ship which they now own. The ship, whilst originally owned by the Cunard Line, was built with Admiralty funding when laissez – faire Capitalism was sacred dogma in Britain. It was believed […]

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “ It appears that Perfidious Albion is still at it—reneging on its Irish promises and treaties, as it has done for many centuries. These two attached articles from todays Irish News of Belfast and the Irish Echo of New York,  make this pretty clear. No […]

I use the term ” U.N. Persons” to mean persons serving the United Nations. The term “UNPERSON” originated in George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty Four.” Wikipedia explains – An UNPERSON as –  “Someone who has been Vapourised, secretly murdered and erased from society, the present, the universe and existence. Such a person would be taken out […]

The late Brian O’Nolan, alias Flann O’Brien, alias Myles na gCopaleen, would probably translate “Aosdana” as Brazen Age but it is a body probably modelled on the  Acadamie Francaise  which lately conferred the description “SAOI” on Edna O’Brien, already honoured in Britain as a Dame of The British Empire. Myle na gCopaleen would probably translated […]