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All Life Is Not Equal

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The editorial of today’s Belfast Telegraph, a British Unionist newspaper, issues a cri de coeur in defence of the British Forces in Ireland during the forty odd years of the conflict in the north-east of the country, and in particular the infamous Parachute Regiment. On the 30th of January 1972 soldiers of that British Army unit […]

Ireland’s Jewish Revolutionaries

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The always fascinating Dublin history and culture blog Come Here To Me has another excellent article on the capital’s recent past, this time an overview of the most prominent members of the city’s Jewish community who fought in or supported the Irish revolution of 1916-1923. Included in the list is Michael Noyk, the leading Sinn […]

From Drogue Grenades To IRAMs

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There are a couple of recent articles in the At War blog of the New York Times that are quite interesting. The first examines the use of conventional weapons and explosives by the various Iraqi insurgency groups fighting against the United States and other foreign militaries in the country from 2003 to the present time (in particular […]

Death Squad Britain – The Past That Won’t Stay Hidden

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Regular readers of An Sionnach Fionn will know how many times we have examined in detail the activities of Britain’s various official and unofficial forces participating in its thirty year long counter-insurgency war against the Irish Republican Army and others in Ireland. Of the official forces perhaps the most infamous have been the covert units […]

British War Hysteria – The Hibernoban!

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So to another round of Fantasy Troubles as the news media in Britain, with a nod and a wink from domestic “security sources”, launch a febrile attempt to whip up some old fashioned anti-Irish hysteria in the lead up to Christmas. And how are they doing that, you ask? Why, by claiming that Irish insurgent […]

Tolerating The Armed Struggle

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So the multi-million euro Smithwick Tribunal has concluded that on the balance of probabilities the ambush by an Active Service Unit of the (Provisional) Irish Republican Army of two senior officers of the RUC, the later disbanded British paramilitary police force in the north-east of Ireland, was conducted using intelligence information supplied by members of […]

Nelson Mandela – An Irish Republican By Another Name

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After a long period of ill-health Nelson Mandela, former leader of the African National Congress, Umkhonto we Sizwe and President of post-apartheid South Africa, has died at the age of 95. An age he might well have thought impossible during the decades-long armed struggle against the White-minority regime in the Black-majority nation during which he […]

Patrick Joseph Crawford – A Wrong To Be Righted

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Some have accused the broad Republican movement in Ireland of being deaf and blind to its own injustices, its own ill-considered actions and, yes, its own crimes too. The killing of Patrick Joseph Crawford in the earliest chaotic days of the Long War is one of many stains on the modern historical record of all […]

A Fine Gael Minister Discovers “Our Language”!

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The Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter TD, has protested the media reporting of the Republican Resistance group Óglaigh na hÉireann (ÓnahÉ) because it’s Irish language name is shared by Ireland’s military, known in English as the Irish Defence Forces (though recently contemporary PR-speak has given us Defence Forces Ireland). Óglaigh na hÉireann actually means “the Irish (Military) Volunteers ” […]

Óglaigh na hÉireann – ÓnahÉ

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One can understand foreign news media misinterpreting the Irish language but our domestic equivalents? The title Óglaigh na hÉireann seems to be causing all sorts of confusion for both. The name dates back to 1913 and the foundation by Irish political and cultural leaders of a Nationalist defence force known in English as the Irish […]