December, 2024

        In my BLOG “Why they hold the six counties” I quoted verbatim the memorandum prepared by British Cabinet Secretary Sir Norman Brook in 1949 following the labelling by Ireland’s Coalition Government of the State which had enjoyed a Republican Government since 1938 as “a Republic.” The ice-cold cynicism Sir Norman and […]

  Charlie Chaplin and Dermot Morgan and other comedians across the world and over many decades had millions rolling in the aisles imitating Adolf Hitler.   Hitler was a monster. He had, at best, the social graces of Donald Trump. He was poorly schooled and unlike better men did not improve his learning. He recognised […]

And now the dust has settled. We’re told that the shape of the new government in the South could be a combination of Fianna Fail and any number of permutations and combinations. No it won’t.   What will happen is that Fianna Fail, holding most seats, will form a cunning plan with Fine Gael and […]

  It’s a long time ago now since I discovered the animosity of Free Staters towards northerners. They did not like anything that challenged the status quo. They were happy with Partition and did not care about what the British did in the six counties. I discovered this for the first time in Maynooth.  Over […]

      Ireland’s (indeed Europe’s) first female Cabinet Minister was appointed in April 1919. By Eamon de Valera, President of Dail Eireann   She had been elected as a Sinn Fein candidate to the first Parliament of a Sovereign Republic 33 days after the guns fell silent in the Great War waged by Britain […]

The South’s election – does Fianna Fail deserve all those seats? Are Sinn Féin facing a barrier of FF and FG that will keep them out of government forever? Will there be rumblings in Sinn Féin about the performance of Mary Lou McDonald (elected on 3rd count, didn’t bring a SF colleague in her slipstream) […]

  According to David Lloyd George PR was a device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all kinds into Parliament and establishing groups and disintegrating parties.   The Great British Statesman never changed his opinion of that “Device” and imposed it on Ireland […]

     Anyone who today condemns Genocide risks being labelled (and libeled) by the massed media of the Western World as an anti-Semite.   It was as crazy in the 1930s. When the Nurenberg decrees stripped German Jews of their Civil rights, Eamon de Valera condemned the Nazi measure. DEV was attacked for his principled, […]

    Browsing through the TV channels the other night I came across a film clip of “Dick Barton Special Agent” made in 1949. I had not known that any film had been made about the Radio Hero who used feature on the BBC every Monday to Friday from 6.45 to 7.00 PM repeats on  […]