pathways to peace

So as Irish people to-day we must question our own morals and look to the future and wonder how our children will judge us. ... The Irish people strongly support neutrality but this is being negated by the use of Shannon airport by US Military. . ..

what does a religious or spiritual irish adult look like?

 In Irish context, given its cultural, political and social history, religion seems somehow patched into our DNA. Most of us tend to have strong opinions on the issue of religion, perhaps it's hard to think of matter that is more Ireland than religion, especially recent decades.. ..

the agitator

At its heart is working-class hero William Bailey, brave and determined Irish- American seaman. Duffy gives us the context and consequences of the courageous resistance of Bailey and his companions Bremen Six to rising tide of racism and anti-Semitism. ..

irish return to political violence?

This past week, I had a conversation with a friend of mine from Belfast, Northern Ireland about the so-called ‘New’ Irish Republican Army (IRA) and its murder of Irish journalist, Lyra McKee, 29 years old, April 18th. Both of us expressed outrage. After all, the ‘Good Friday..

settler colonialism and its victims

Many descendants of those family members who settled in Ireland under British rule later went on to settle in the US.  These folks, called Scots-Irish because many were of Scottish descent, played the same role as they had in Ireland. ..

what used to be satire

Modest Proposal did nothing to ameliorate the suffering of Irish in the approaching famine of 1740, or the famines that followed in the century under continued English rule. Noah asks us to join him in the role of anthropologist, the outsider. ..

elizabeth huergo

Why don’t we just eat Irish children, Jonathan Swift proposed, modestly? ... Perhaps that is all satire can ever accomplish: the vexation of a powerful, enfranchised class and the sad acknowledgement by the rest of us as to how things are. ..

something in the air

One half of us pretended to be Irish or the miners - or whoever was on strike at the time - and the other half would just charge into them. ... To counter the growing dissent about the war and to stabilise its Irish policy, a policy of Ulsterisation was put in motion by the Labour..

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