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These two articles that follow this introduction were published in The Irish Political Review around a decade ago, in 2008 and 2009. Now, in 2021, we know that the U.S./U.K. have failed in Afghanistan. There should be no British complaints about President Biden’s decision to throw in the towel and cut the Afghan client government…
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On July 9th European Union Council President Charles Michel announced an “unprecedented financial package” designed to help the Armenian government continue “democratic reforms” and improve the socio-economic situation in the country. Michel stressed the desire of the EU to become “an active partner” to Armenia, offering Yerevan an aid package of 2.6 billion Euros over…
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Unionism is in crisis. It has been in crisis for around 50 years now. But it hasn’t gone away you know. The speedy demise of Edwin Poots as DUP leader has given great satisfaction to nationalists of various hues. There is, of course, the traditional satisfaction of the communal grind in which all bad is…
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Roger Casement wrote ‘The Nameless One’ at the end of November, 1898. He did so outside Lagos, onboard the Gretchen Bolen, sailing to London. It is a poem largely about the massacre of Armenians by the forces of the Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid, known widely as “Abdul the Damned” in England. It is a vicious poem,…
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A paper presented on 23.2.2021 to Ankara Üniversity İnkılap Tarihi Enstitüsü – Institute of Revolutionary History video conference on Greece 1821-2021. The question of Greek independence, won in 1821, arose in conjunction with the British desire to engage neutral Greece in the Great War against Ottoman Turkey during 1915. On January 24, 1915, the British…
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The text of a question and answer piece I did with Deutsches Zentrum fur Sudkaukasus on the war in Karabakh and the armistice: What are the real reasons for the current escalation? Would the war have been avoidable? The second Karabakh war was probably unavoidable. Such an injustice and moral blow was dealt to the…
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I am grateful for the following contribution from a reader: The Year 1915 in the Ottoman Empire and the Work of the War Propaganda Bureau at Wellington House – A Departure Point for the Truth Seeker – James Bryce’s “The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 1915-1916”, (London: G.P.Putnam’s Sons for HMSO, 1916) is…
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The short answer is: when Tsar Nicholas II offered his country and its population up to Britain in its Great War of 1914 to destroy Germany and break up the Ottoman Empire. In waging that War, in which Russia was bled to collapse in return for substantial British finance to continue fighting to the bitter…
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An article in the NY Review of Books of October 2018 entitled The Suffocation of Democracy by Christopher R. Browning states the following, in a mindless anti-Trump piece of pseudo-history: “Today, President Trump seems intent on withdrawing the US from the entire post–World War II structure of interlocking diplomatic, military, and economic agreements and organizations that have preserved peace,…
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On 19 June 1919 T.P. O’Connor, MP, spoke at a meeting held in Central Hall, Westminster, in support of the Armenian cause. O’Connor appeared on the platform with Lord James Bryce, Lord Gladstone (son of William), G.P. Gooch (famous historian) and the Armenian General Andranik. A record of the proceedings was published in a pamphlet,…
