Independent Ireland
on the issue of Irish Independence
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“My interest in Persia was aroused some years ago by the writings and the speeches of Professor Browne, and my interest to it was attracted because I have all my life thought that one of the greatest outrages against humanity that can be perpetrated is to kill the soul or the civilization of any nation……
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The British State has been successful in putting Humpty Dumpty back together again on the Hill at Stormont. The DUP are back in their box again, in the great annex that was created by Westminster in 1921, known as ‘Northern Ireland’. The British State can hopefully return to its business, without the botheration of interference…
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Today, the attitude of Ireland toward Palestine and Zionism, Government and people, stands in marked contrast to that of Britain and its Government and Opposition. There was once a time when Ireland was an enthusiast for the Zionist project. Arthur Griffith, the founder of Sinn Fein, was both an anti-Semite and Zionist, like his British…
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On December 20/21, France and Armenia had a UN Security Council meeting convened to debate the unfolding situation around the Lachin road in Azerbaijan, where a group of protesters were demonstrating against activities being conducted within the area under the control of Russian peacekeepers. France, a permanent member and chair of the UN Security Council…
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Sinn Féin’s winning of more seats than any other political party in the NI Assembly elections has produced some sniping from begrudgers who cannot bring themselves to acknowledge the achievement. The objective has been to denigrate the triumph of Sinn Fein by claiming that the party’s performance has been less impressive than it has been…
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To mark the 50th anniversary of the administrative massacre in Derry I have posted the section which deals with Bloody Sunday in ‘Resurgence, 1969-2016: Volume Two of The Catholic Predicament in ‘Northern Ireland’ by Pat Walsh (Athol Books, 2016) pp. 185-8. Testing the Nationalist Will It was the British escalation of the conflict, after failing…
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It is the centenary of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 this month. The Irish Times of November 3, 1922 described what it saw as the triumph of the “Treaty” in the following way: “It perplexed the sagacity of Queen Elizabeth. It defeated the genius of Cromwell. Pitt failed and nearly every great statesman in English…
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Five years ago, in 2016, President of Ireland Mary McAleese visited Gallipoli as part of her remembrance escapade. I was approached to write an article marking this event because I had written a book a few years earlier on Britain’s Great War on Ottoman Turkey. It seemed a good opportunity to explain what Gallipoli was…
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The funeral of Volunteer Bobby Storey has created something of a palaver. Palavers, of course, are not unusual in the weird political construct of ‘Northern Ireland’. They are the very stuff of the communal grind and they gain extra purchase when they occur within one of the two communal blocs rather than between the two.…
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A Talk given by Dr. Patrick Walsh at the London School of Economics on February 15th 2013 The events that occurred in Eastern Anatolia in 1915 should be located in a broader context than simply that of Turk against Armenian. Both Turks and Armenians were, after all, actors in a much wider drama that was…
