All Life Is Not Equal
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...
View ArticleIreland’s Jewish Revolutionaries
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...
View ArticleFrom Drogue Grenades To IRAMs
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...
View ArticleDeath Squad Britain – The Past That Won’t Stay Hidden
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...
View ArticleBritish War Hysteria – The Hibernoban!
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...
View ArticleTolerating The Armed Struggle
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...
View ArticleNelson Mandela – An Irish Republican By Another Name
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...
View ArticlePatrick Joseph Crawford – A Wrong To Be Righted
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...
View ArticleA Fine Gael Minister Discovers “Our Language”!
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...
View ArticleÓglaigh na hÉireann – ÓnahÉ
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...
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