November, 2022

    Perhaps you are as much a babe in the woods as myself and never heard of of  BAP – the BRITISH AMERICAN PROJECT.   Founded in the 1980s it has been described as the brain-child of Ronald Reagan, with U.S.Embassy funding amid concern about anti-American drift in the Labour Party then led by […]

    My recent BLOG “Who Wrote JFK’s Speeches?” noted that his address to the Oireachtas was given 41 years to the day since Michael Collins, on the orders of Winston Churchill, bombarded his former comrades in the Four Courts with guns borrowed from the British garrison. I noted that virtually all of my generation were […]

Mary Lou McDonald has been getting some pretty severe kicks from Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin. Par for the course, I suppose. But now the voice of a man who is friendly  – very friendly – with the Hutch gang has said she has let the Hutch family down by not attending the funeral of […]

Last night BBC2 devoted more than an hour to Simon Schama’s “HISTORY OF NOW”.   He depicted Picasso’s “Guernica, praised George Orwell and spent much time attacking the Soviet Union, China and the various BETES NOIR of Britain’s current establishment. Oh and he was unsympathetic to Franco’s Fascists. He neglected the fact that British Intelligence officers flew General […]

I read recently, I think in THE TIMES of London, of two young gentlemen who in 1919 played golf with two other gentlemen, solely with the aim of seducing their wives. An aim in which they succeeded.   I do not know if either of them had heard of, and doubt if either had read, […]

  The so-called ‘Troubles’ have been replaced by a new controversy with unionists and journalists railing against ‘rewriting’ history. For Unionists the conflict was about a ‘democracy beset by irrationalism terrorism.’ For Irish republicans it was a war of resistance to British repression. This book uses Noam Chomsky’s propaganda model to evaluate the media coverage […]

This was the week when Westminster told Nichola Sturgeon No, and when Ireland’s Future crammed a thousand people into the Ulster Hall. Funny the way things happen in twos. An article in today’s Irish Times comments on how so many countries have been built on the destruction of the culture and the dispossession killing of […]

Thursday was a tale of two cities: Edinburgh and Belfast. Those gathered in both shared a similar goal – to govern their own country. Not really asking too much.  In Ukraine,  the Western world hails the Ukrainians . Only yesterday Britain delivered three war helicopters to add to the massive supply of arms the Ukraine […]

      This was first published here in January 2016. Another stop on Memory Lane..  Under “NAUGHTY”   I alluded to the fact that in England the Prime Minister comes next in precedence to the Archbishop of York, who is himself less honoured than the Lord Chancellor and the Archbishop of Canterbury. It’s a […]

.Listening to last night’s Ireland’s Future contributions from Glenn Bradley, Denzil McDaniel, Claire Mitchell, Lorraine Hall, and Ben Collins, something became extremely clear: more and more Protestants in the North not only see a united Ireland as viable…but see themselves as Irish.  Claire Mitchell, in her contributions, said she had spoken with many Protestants from […]