December, 2022

Was Rishi Sunak’s visit to our stateen an effort to establish himself as the strong unionist figure holding the UK together – or just a photo-op? The UK has strikes on every side – nurses strike, rail strike, teachers and lecturers strike – and so far, the British public seem to be in sympathy with […]

  An Cheist*: Who described Winston Churchill as the most honoured and honourable man to walk the stage of human history in the time in which we live?     Freagra**: U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on 9 April 1963 when he conferred  Honorary US Citizenship on the old scoundrel.     According to a recent […]

  A lot of criticism has been directed towards Qatar in the midst of them being World Cup hosts. Chief amongst these criticisms would be their human rights abuses in terms of how they’ve treated migrant workers, homosexuals and women. Like most people I abhor discrimination and mistreatment of other humans on any basis. With […]

  I’ve never written about 1966. . But that year made such a lasting impression on Ireland’s leading intellectual, Fintan O’Toole, that, when commissioned to write an informed reflection on the 1916 Rising he replied with his recollections of its Golden Jubilee when he was but a lad of eight summers. O’Toole had made no […]

  But in describing them as young prisoners he helps in the distortion of Rory O,Connor’s role by Neil Jordan in the movie Michael Collins, By the time of the murder of O’Connor, Mellows, Barrett and McKelvey, senior figures in the republican movement , the Provisional Government appointed by the British had murdered low-ranking Volunteers […]

For the past week or so, The Irish Times has been feeding off the opinion poll it helped organise about Irish unity. A number of that organ’s big hitters, not least today’s Michael McDowell, have been using the results to explain to us how we should think.   McDowell does raise one  interesting if ultimately […]

  In today’s Irish Times, Fintan O’Toole has an article entitled ‘Doublethink on united Ireland part of who we are’. In the sub-heading, we’re told there’s a big difference between believing ‘in’ something and then believing you are then required to do something about it.  I’m not sure about the main headline, but the sub-heading […]

      I have referred here to the Diaries, On 6 December I published an entry for October 23 1914 which proves beyond doubt that  the story about how  Britain sleepwalked into war with Germany in 1914 wa, and remains, a damnable lie. The heading was “HOW BRITISH DELINQUENTS PREPARED FOR THEIR WAR ON […]

The years 1934, 1938, 1968 should be recalled in European History   In 1934 Hitler and Poland made a Pact, Fine Gael’s John A Costello voiced approval of Mussolini’s Blackshirts and Germany’s “Hitler-Shirts” and predicted that the Blueshirts would take power in Ireland. Political leaders in Germany and Poland are today united in falsifying history, […]

  Much talk is made of how to accommodate the Unionist half of the population in a United Ireland. Implicit in this is a suggestion that the constitutional status of the North impacts one’s sense of identity. The very fact we’re even having this discussion bodes well for creating a more progressive and tolerant form […]