Problem of Northern Ireland
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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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By Brendan Clifford from The Irish Political Review, April 2026 It seems that an account of the B&ICO should be given, and that I will have to give it. I was not in any sense a founder of it, but I was around at the time and I knew its founders, Pat Murphy and Liam…
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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…
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The recent intriguing documentary by Darragh Macintyre, The Secret Army, about Bowyer-Bell’s long lost 1970s propaganda film for the IRA – which was not all it seemed – has reopened the chatter about touts/informers. In particular, it has started the media off again on one of its favourite subjects, assisted by various anti-Sinn republicans, about…
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(Note: This article was written before the leader of the DUP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson was arrested on sex offence charges.) It seems that the DUP may be back to “feeding the crocodiles” again. According to the Belfast Telegraph (1.3.24): “Addressing his party members in Newry and Armagh on Wednesday night, Sir Jeffrey said that Northern…
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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…
