Jude Collins

      I’ve been browsing through “DRAWING CONCLUSIONS”  A Cartoon History of Anglo-Irish Relations 1798-1998.   Anti-Irish cartoonists portrayed us as apes, and Frankenstein Monsters  throughout the two centuries covered. I can recall Lord Hailsham referring to Republicans as “Baboons”. Perhaps he was trying to compensate for the misfortune of his own porcine, surname […]

Maybe you saw the 15 clip of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson in the House of Commons? He worked himself into quite a lather, while behind him, grim and unsmiling, sat Ian Paisley Jr.  There is no truth to a vile glove-puppet interpretation of the event. Meanwhile, the BBC’s Question Time last night featured a protestor, who […]

      The fact that I never really connected with the Toy Show probably explains the irresponsible and irratioinal glee I  feel at the mess the Toyshow Musical people have got themselves into. Not only did they come up with a twee idea that blew up in their faces and cost the licence fee […]

      BELOW IS THE TEXT OF A LETTER OF MINE PUBLISHED IN THE IRISH POST IN EARLY 1983:     ” A recent television programme on war propaganda revealed that Goebbels modelled his approach on British World War I propaganda. Certainly my late father disbelieved the first revelations of the barbarity of Auschwitz […]

        GENOCIDE IS NOT NEW, ALTHOUGH THE TERM WAS COINED AFTER MOST OF EUROPE WAS LIBERATED FROM THE NAZIS BY THE SOVIETARMY.   The gentle poet Edmund Spenser advocated the “extirpation” of the Irish during the Golden Reign of Good Queen Bess.   THE TIMES praised the beneficence of  Almighty God for […]

In World War Two, only l in 5 American soldiers fired at the enemy. In addition to this, only a small percentage of soldiers are typically responsible for the majority of deaths in any conflict. With the exception of psychopaths – who represent a tiny minority of the population – harming other people doesn’t appear […]

THE IRISH DRESSER. Poem  RSH.23.1.24I stand in a roomWith others.Some I know.Some I don’t know.The dresser standsBeyond the light.Its presence amongst usHides secrets.Some we could agree onYet others we don’t even know of.Who carved and assembled this dresser?Who made the drawers and recessesThe dark corners and whoPicked the wood?There are objects on the dresser.Cracked plates […]

  As we ALL know the border was manufactured, or ‘invented’ to quote abuddy of mine, to produce the English Colonial Settler majority (thepeople of Northern Ireland/the Unionist/Loyalist) majority in theNorth.During the Treaty Debates, many Irish people reckoned that Derry City,Tyrone & Fermanagh in total, South Armagh & South Down would go toDublin, with the […]

      Hasn’t Sir Jeff gotten himself into a bit of a pickle?  Whether as the leader of the largest Unionist party or the supposed leader of Unionism in general, he’s really messed things up in the past couple of weeks and completely confused everyone, not only in his electorate but also in the […]

        We’ve all experienced it – that moment when we have to face up to the fact that we’ve made a truly bad decision, we’ve inflicted damage on ourselves and those we care about, that our declaration that we were the master of our destiny is beginning to look a bit…stupid. Ultimately, […]