Author Jude Collins

Note: Donal has asked me to reprint this blog he did first on June 27, 2020 by Jude Collins on June 27, 2020   On June 26 Stephen Collins writes of Daniel O’Connell 1775-1847 and his opposition to slavery.He ignores Mary Anne McCracken 1770-1868 who campaigned for its abolition while O’Connell was still a child and distributed papers […]

    It can be fairly said of C.P. SCOTT, Liberal MP, (1895-1906) Editor, then owner of the Manchester Guardian from 1872 to 1929, that like the proverbial pox-doctor’s daughter, he knew all the men that mattered,in Britain and Ireland, and many  further afield.   Scott kept occasional political diaries from the days of Asquith’s […]

          On 7th April 2016 I had a BLOG here, which you can easily access :-   “JOYCE’S MARTELLO TOWER REVISITED (BY THE TIMES)”   The Joyce in question had written a book whose first pages had introduced us to Haines, a young Englishman  with money (reputedly extracted by his father […]

Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. It’s that time of year again when the Boneheads rule. When pallets are lovingly placed one on top of another, where optimistic signs about Killing All Irish (KAI) and engaging in sexual congress with an infirm, 86-year-old man known as Pope Francis.  It’s that time when proponents […]

                                Sometimes I almost feel sympathy for the DUP.  Having hammered in vain on the door of John Finucane in the hope that he’d be somehow disgraced for speaking at the South Armagh commemoration, Edwin Poots this morning has mounted a steed named Distraction and was last seen galloping off towards the […]

    —   To dispel rumours that the British Foreign Secretary’s country retreat at Chevening had been, during her stint in that office the venue of a cocaine sniffing party Liz Truss released a photograph which might make sensitive noses smell rats.    It was published in THE TIMES and shows her at Chevening […]

     Last night, Professor Brendan O’Leary was a central figure in a Zoom meet-up of an awful lot of people, including me. Th professor is from south of the Black Pig’s Dyke but has been teaching and researching in the University of Pennsylvania  since 2003. He is a prodigious writer and has published more […]

  John Finucane – wouldn’t you think that since he himself was a victim to terrorism, he wouldn’t consider going let alone going to South Armagh to commemorate IRA people who died in the conflict? At least that’s how a lot of unionist politicians and spokespeople have seen his actions.  Pat and I have a […]

An Tánaiste is treading a traditional route, not the one carved out by”…those brave men who fought and died, that Róisín live again with pride…” but rather, the one taken by Perkin Warbeck, claiming to be the Duke of York when he arrived in Cork in 1491.  Tradition has it the support given to Warbeck […]

I’m probably in the top ten Hopeless Organisers but I itch with a desire to move things forward regarding Ireland and its reunification. There are a number of respected people doing valuable work right now- David McWilliams being one of them in the Irish Times  this morning. But I think there are hundreds, thousands of people […]