Independent Ireland
on the issue of Irish Independence
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Fergal Keane, BBC Special Correspondent, Order of the British Empire, makes a living sneering for Britain. Anyone who has watched his Story of Ireland video will know what I mean. Every few sentences of his narration contains a sneer against the Irish and their history. It would perhaps be condemned as racism if read by…
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Is Republicanism the same thing as Anti-Partitionism? Does a detour, on the way to ending Partition, mean the end of Republicanism? Anti-Provo Republican Dissidents think that it does and now it seems others are following. In the last few weeks Gerry Adams equated Republicanism with simple Anti-Partitionism in trying to minimise the West Belfast vote for…
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We have reached the Centenary of the Easter Rising. On this day it is fitting we remember North Antrim’s Roger Casement who not only gave up his life for Irish freedom but did so much, in his writings, to give Ireland independence of mind. This represented the beginnings of a Foreign Policy – an essential…
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Todays Irish Times large feature article, ‘The Gerry Adams Family’ to mark the opening of Sinn Fein’s Ard Fheis shows that the Adams Hunt continues in the Southern media. This section of ‘Resurgence’ (to be published in the summer) deals with that aspect of politics in Ireland: The Boston College tapes formed a fundamental part…
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Below is another extract from the final chapter of ‘Resurgence’- part 2 of the Catholic Predicament in ‘Northern Ireland – due out this summer: The scapegoating of Sinn Fein in the South for the conflict in the North has portrayed it as having wantonly began an illegitimate and unnecessary War against a normal system of…
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This summer will see the publication of ‘Resurgence’ – the second and final volume of ‘The Catholic Political Predicament in ‘Northern Ireland.’ It takes up the story where ‘Catastrophe’ left off, in August 1969, the pivotal event in the resurgence of the nationalist community after the catastrophe of 1920-25. From the final chapter ‘Restless in…
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This summer will see the publication of ‘Resurgence’ – the second and final volume of ‘The Catholic Political Predicament in ‘Northern Ireland.’ It takes up the story where ‘Catastrophe’ left off, in August 1969, the pivotal event in the resurgence of the nationalist community after the catastrophe of 1920-25. Over the next while I will…
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The Irish Times (20/2/16) has a book review of Stefan Ihrig’s ‘Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler.’ Its reviewer is a Law Professor from the U.S. Perhaps in this year of 1916 commemoration a book and a review vilifying “our gallant allies” of Germany and Turkey is called for by the…
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The September issue of History Ireland has a sympathetic article by Angus Mitchell, author of the recent 1916 book on Roger Casement, called ‘James Bryce and the Politics of Inhumanity.’ However, the career of Lord Bryce would be better summed up in George Curzon’s memorable phrase of “fatal philanthropy”. Roger Casement’s view that James Bryce…
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Here we go again. The way the British and Irish States are behaving with regard to the McGuigan shooting suggests they have both decided to take down the institutions in ‘Northern Ireland’ and put the Provos – who have been on ceasefire now for nearly two decades – in the dock as fall guys. It’s…
