August, 2018

      When, in the fateful year of 1992, Francis Fukuyama penned his pivotal prose essay ‘The End of History’, the mint-sucking drama king FOTUS (haka for Fint O Toole Uber Shoneen) was in the second calendar year of his epochal stint of posing as the Artistic Adviser to the Abbey Theatre. Apart from […]

” ENGLAND’S CARE FOR TRUTH by One who knows both.” (Roger Casement) published by Athol Books. Reviewed by Donal Kennedy in the IRISH POLITICAL REVIEW (August 2018) This is the second volume of Roger Casement’s Selected Writings published by Athol Books. The first volume, comprising “The Crime against Europe”, with  “The Crime against Ireland,” has […]

Congratulations to the British media, from the We-Are-Great-Britainness of the Daily Telegraph to the We-Are-Liberal-Honestness of The Guardian. With a commendable unanimity, they have decided to throw the toilet as well as the kitchen sink at The Most Dangerous Man In Britain, Jeremy Corbyn. Why is he Dangerous? Because he’s anti-Semitic. Corbyn has been around […]

On the website RTÉ News Now, there’s an article headed ‘The long road to truth and justice’. In it, Fergal Bowers details the cases of some who have been caught up in the south’s cervical smear scandal, where people have died because of inaccurate diagnoses. Bowers  denounces the delay in making public the findings of the […]

  Born Princess Mary of Teck (the German Kingdom of  Wurtemberg) in 1867, Mary was, successively Duchess of York, Duchess of Cornwall, Princess of Wales, and, from 191o to 1936 Queen Consort to King George V. On his death she had the title Queen Mother until George VI died in 1952. George V, as King […]

  In a society ruled by law, as distinct from rule by men, General Sir Nick Carter would be risking not only his job as head of the British army but prosecution in a civilian court,   for his recent remarks regarding soldiers being held to account for criminal behaviour. Persons who commit crimes are entitled […]

Do they do it deliberately or are we just stupid? I’m referring to the way politicians find a term or expression and beat it mercilessly until the public can barely recognize it, let alone know what it means. A good example is the term ‘backstop’. This literally means a screen or fence that’s used in […]

  I always enjoy the CULTURE section of the SUNDAY TIMES for its reviews. There were  two cracking book reviews in it on July 22. The first, by Lynn Barber, was of “The Reluctant Billionaire”  – “The Tragic Life of Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of  Westminster” by Tom Quinn. Quinn quoted “many school contemporaries, Territorial Army comrades, […]

I watched the movie ‘The Death of Stalin’, which I’d recommend as funny and horrible at the same time. After Stalin’s death, there was much jockeying for position; but it was General Georgy Zhukov who cut through the arguments, had a few key people shot, and cleared a road for Krushchev to take power. This […]

        There were a number of interesting items in this morning’s Irish Times. ‘No evidence of a land bubble in Ireland, says Varadkar’ is one headline. In the report, an Taoiseach says that although land isn’t being made available for development quickly enough in the south, he doesn’t believe there’s a land […]