April, 2022

Goodbye Mary Lou, you disappoint me.  It has become  clear that NATO has been arming and training the American hand- picked regime in Ukraine for many years  in order to ruin Russia economically, and rob her vast mineral and agricultural wealth, if not obliterate the country with nuclear bombs. (During the Cold War the United […]

  In his monumental, three volume history of Ireland, THE GREEN FLAG,  Robert Keecorrectly tells us that Arthur Griffith died on 12th August 1922. But he wrongly describes him as Prime Minister of “the New Free State Government.” Wrong, because the Free State did not come into being until 6th December 1922. When Griffith died he was […]

An Editorial in THE TIMES recently was headed “VALIANT FOR TRUTH”. I didn’t read the Editorial, anymore than I read John Bunyan’s “PILGRIM’S PROGRESS” which features a Mr. Valiant who describes his own pilgrimage from darkness to the light of Christian truth. I understand that the title was bestowed by some enlightened folks on Conor […]

So Boris Johnson plans to ship refugees to Rwanda. Have his plans more of a whiff of Van Diemen’s Land? Turf burns (metaphorically)in the heart of the Irish people. Will the Dublin government put a stop to the burning of turf? The Russians have lost a major battleship – they say there was an explosion […]

“On 21 February the Ukrainian President announced that he was prepared to abrogate the December 1994 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, making Ukraine a base for nuclear weapons aimed at Russia. Russia launched its Special Military Operation three days later. And then there was the presence of US biological warfare laboratories in the Ukraine in violation of […]

For some time now I’ve been thinking about what parts of our history is learned in schools and surprisingly came across the same thoughts on Radio Ulster today.  Should our political history be taught in schools?  Should subjects such as Bloody Sunday, Bloody Friday, the Pogroms or indeed the Remembrance Day bombing in Enniskillen be […]

Liam Kennedy is an interesting man. He is emeritus professor of history at Queen’s University, he wrote the book Unhappy the Land: The Most Oppressed People Ever, the Irish?, he has in the past called for a commission of inquiry into punishment attacks by republicans, and when he ran in the 2005 election in Belfast […]

  When talk turns to Irish reunification,  the weapon most frequently wielded in the argument is health. Unionist and many nationalists will point to the fact that you can get a visitor to your doctor for free in the North, whereas  in the South you’re going to have to stump up somewhere between €45 and […]

All the leaders of unionist parties condemned that poster ‘found’ at a Lurgan protest, showing the UUP leader Doug Beattie with a noose around his neck. Doug talks about his military blood-shedding in Afghanistan – will that be enough to block out the shouts of “Lundy!” when unionists cast their votes in a couple of […]

  I SEE THAT THE COMBINED LIBRARY OF THE LATE CONOR CRUISE O’BRIEN AND HIS WIFE MAIRE MAC SAN TSAOI WILL SOON BE ON THE MARKET.  They were each of them outstanding scholars and writers. For many years I worshipped everything that I heard or saw written by Conor and I still treasure some of […]