October, 2022

TREATIES ARE AGREED BETWEEN STATES WHICH RECOGNISE EACH OTHER. THERE WAS NO TREATY SIGNED IN LONDON BY THE DEMOCRATICALLY ESTABLISHED AND FUNCTIONING IRISH REPUBLIC AND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT WHICH WAS USURPING POWER IN IRELAND.   Dail Eireann acquiesced by a small majority in its acceptance. It was seen as a Mafia-type offer which the  delegates […]

  Its near 700 pages are very interesting, and I’d recommend them to patients, pensioners and prisoners spared the distractions of parenthood or work.  Garret was a brilliant man, and the success of Aer Lingus over some decades was largely his doing. He was also an educator teaching statistics in Rathmines Tech and Economics in […]

And so we say farewell to B Johnson,  as he fades into the background again. The man of the moment is Rishi Sunak, who, we are told, will calm the markets. Will that be enough? Are there Tories who simply hate him? And what of Micheál Martin? I say he’s moving out of the Taoiseach […]

  In or about December 2008 I wrote the following* which was published in various fringe papers –   “On January 28 1919, exactly one week after the first meeting of Dail Eireann, a young   man remarked in his diary –   ‘Just one thing occurs to me to mention before I put this […]

For those of us who like to pick through the entrails of politics, the past week has been….marvellous. Boris the prince coming over the water to the rescue, Penny, beautiful and named after a battleship, Rishi with his non-dom wife and LOADSAMONEY. Remember these days, folks. We may not see their like again.. Meanwhile, back […]

        I might explain that I passed it for re-publication because Micheal Martin is proposing the erection of a statue of Michael Collins in Dublin. Cromwell sought to be painted warts and all. Collins won the hearts of the nation during the war of independence. In the last months of his life […]

      Published in HISTORY IRELAND July/August Edition 2018 If Ireland is to celebrate an Independence Day, as advocated by Dennis Kennedy (May/June Issue) it should be on December 14th because on that day in 1918 her voters, quietly and peaceably in the polling booths, determined that Ireland should be a sovereign and independent state. The […]

  AMERICAN BREXIT COMMITTEE  1919 CHESTNUT ST, SUITE 1724  PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103    John M. Corcoran Esq, Chairman  Michael J. Cummings, Secretary     October 20 NYC, Washington D. C., & Philadelphia “We welcome the resignation of the Thatcher- wannabe Prime Minister Liz Truss” stated Chairman John Corcoran.  “Her principal Irish policies of tearing up the […]

.The contribution by Malachi O’Doherty “One of Ireland’s Leading Political Commentators” (15 October) is interesting but unconvincing.   Patrick Pearse never publicly promoted a “Gaelic and Catholic Ireland.”  Indeed, in his oration at Wolfe Tone’s grave he rated the Deist Tone above St Patrick, which at least bordered on blasphemy.   Pearse inherited his radicalism […]

  This is getting uncanny. Spooky. Weird. Last year Arlene Foster was deposed as leader of the DUP and was succeeded by Edwin Poots, after a contest between him and Jeffrey Donaldson. After some three weeks, Poots was deposed and replaced by the man he had beaten just a few weeks earlier, Jeffrey Donaldson.  This […]