Independent Ireland
on the issue of Irish Independence
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It looks like some Ulsterish elements have decided upon a replay at Drumcree and a “once more to the brink dear friends” event. John Finucane MP summed up the collective will of the Catholic community in relation to that when he announced: “No Going Back!” Nationalists duly flooded into the Garvaghy Road in defence of…
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The late Brendan Hughes famously described the Good Friday Agreement as the “Got F*** All” agreement. He had a point in relation to the Republican objective: The Republican War was concluded by the IRA with Northern Ireland still part of the British State and Sinn Fein administering British rule within a new Stormont. The Good…
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(Part 1 by Brendan Clifford appeared in Irish Political Review, April 2026). In Part One of this article it was described how the Irish Communist Group was constructed in the course of discussions within a loose grouping of people drawn from a wide variety of sources on the initiative of Liam Daltun and Pat Murphy.…
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It has been fashionable to talk of the World War of 1914 as having resulted from sleepwalking by the European powers. This, of course, is complete nonsense. Any reading of British accounts, including the insider memoirs of the illustrious Cabinet Secretary, Sir Maurice Hankey, shows that there was a well-worked out and purposeful plan for…
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Available Now available from Amazon UK in e-book, softback and hardback editions. A 436 page book of 10 chapters on the causes, course and consequences of one of the most consequential and catastrophic events in history – The Great War on Ottoman Turkey. Contents Introduction Chapter I. Britain and the Ottoman Empire p.5 Chapter II.…
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To mark the sad passing of the esteemed historian and former Turkish Ambassador to Ireland, Altay Cengizer, I republish an article from the Irish Political Review of December 2013, describing his greatly informative address at Michael Collins Barracks, Dublin, on Saturday 13 November 2013. He is a great loss to Turkiye and Ireland. Allah Rehmet…
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Germany, the killer of 6 million Jews, has insisted that if Israel is excluded from the Eurovision Song Contest it will boycott the competition. A number of Germany’s European colleagues – Spain, Ireland, Netherlands and Slovenia – are insisting that Israel’s genocidal activity in Gaza needs to be punished. After all, wasn’t Russia the subject…
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In 1939 Britain’s most popular and widely read historian of the period, Arthur Bryant, made the terrible mistake of writing a book explaining how the First World War of 1914 was leading to a Second World War. That was the 1940 book, Unfinished Victory. Arthur Bryant was the author of around 60 well-selling books, including…
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James Sharp, former British Ambassador to Baku, was recently interviewed on Caliber, by Orkhan Amashov. The interview dealt with some similarities between the ‘Northern Ireland’ peace process/1998 Belfast, aka Good Friday Agreement, and the current, stalled Armenia-Azerbaijan peace negotiations. The focus of the interview was on the reluctance of Yerevan to meet Baku’s demand to…
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The new Taoiseach, Simon Harris, has stated that Irish unity is not his priority. It is merely an aspiration – as opposed to a policy. He has, therefore, returned the Irish state to the policy of De Valera. De Valera was conscious that ‘Northern Ireland’ had an ulterior motive as far as the British were…
