Tag: Sinn Féin

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Professor David Betz is an academic whose area of expertise includes civil war. His title is Professor of War in the Modern World, and he teaches at King’s College, London, a highly respected university. He has been doing the rounds on alternative media for the last year or so predicting that civil war, or some variant, is imminent not just in the UK but across Europe. Recently, he made an interesting comment. If civil war or something similar starts in Europe, it will start in Northern Ireland. (more…)

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Writing these words as parts of LA burn at the hands of what looks to me like a hostile occupying foreign force, I learn from most mainstream media that my eyes are lying to me, and that the pro-illegal immigration “protests” are, in fact, “mostly peaceful”, just as they always are (here’s a useful list of reports to prove it). (more…)

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Election special

There is only one game in town at the moment in the Disunited Kingdom, and it’s the imminent General Election. Until a month ago it was as dull as ditchwater, with Labour expected to trounce that loose collective still inexplicably using the name “Conservative Party” and take the uniparty baton from the oldest political party in the world. There was nothing of interest other than the scale of the drubbing. (more…)

Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha, the Irish writer who most explicitly linked Ireland’s struggle for independence to ethnonationalism.

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Micheál Martin, the Irish Tánaiste and leader of Fianna Fáil, recently uploaded a speech delivered to the Dáil on his conception of Irish nationalism. Martin wrote that:

The people who fought for and founded our state saw it as a place with multiple identities, open to the world and embodying the most important republican principle of all, to reflect the diversity of its people. (more…)