“During the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland our population was reduced by 40%”
The level of poverty in Ireland was evidenced by further comments from O’Connell: “The last Population Returns of 1841 showed that, out of the whole rural population of Ireland, 46 per cent lived in a single room; the entire human family and the pigs occupied the same apartment together. The next fact was, that of […]
On March 8, the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy published a comprehensive report whose title speaks for itself: The Uyghur Genocide: An Examination of China’s Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention. The report arrives at the same conclusion as the former Trump administration and states that China’s treatment of the Uyghurs meets all of […]
The level of poverty in Ireland was evidenced by further comments from O’Connell: “The last Population Returns of 1841 showed that, out of the whole rural population of Ireland, 46 per cent lived in a single room; the entire human family and the pigs occupied the same apartment together. The next fact was, that of […]
A writer from the Illustrated London News describes what he sees in Clonakilty “I started from Cork, by the mail (says our informant), for Skibbereen and saw little until we came to Clonakilty, where the coach stopped for breakfast; and here, for the first time, the horrors of the poverty became visible, in the vast […]
Oh, Ian: “A DUP MP has faced criticism from parliamentary counterparts after linking the IRA with Catholicism. Ian Paisley’s reference to the sectarian murder campaign by the “Catholic IRA” drew critical responses from fellow members of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee. Mr Paisley was questioning Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis on legacy issues and was […]
There are a number of things that are remarkable about this tweet from the Chinese Embassy in Washington. The first, though, is that it’s still up, unmolested by twitter, with no warning, or clarification attached. President Trump gets banned for dopey tweets about how he didn’t really lose the election. China, on the other hand, […]
The raggle-taggle, baseball and medieval implement-brandishing band of conscripts converge with one accord on a pile of unsuspecting bargain T-shirts piled up in front of a roadside stall. As the whistle blows ferociously, they raise their weapons and bring them down repeatedly on the lifeless mound shouting “Kill! Kill! Kill!” Giggling uncontrollably, they are called […]
The policy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of eradicating cultural, religious, and linguistic identities is systematic and derives from Xi Jinping’s reflections on the fall of the Soviet Union. Bitter Winter, the magazine on religious liberty and human rights in China, has documented in the last few weeks the escalation of the cultural genocide in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Inner […]
Rights Group Warns of ‘Rwandan-style genocide’ A human rights group has warned that Nigeria is at risk of a “Rwandan-style genocide” as more than 60,000 Christians have been killed by extremists in the past decade. The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law cites research from the International Committee on Nigeria (ICON) […]
A writer from the Illustrated London News describes what he sees in Clonakilty ““I started from Cork, by the mail (says our informant), for Skibbereen and saw little until we came to Clonakilty, where the coach stopped for breakfast; and here, for the first time, the horrors of the poverty became visible, in the vast […]
The January sun was shining on Istanbul’s Sultanahmet Square as I walked by small piles of scrabbling pigeons, passed the gleaming white Obelisk of Theodosius, and headed through the metal detector that guards the door of the Turkish-Islamic Arts Museum. It is a long building of rose-colored brick and stone, fronted by a row of […]