Your culture doesn’t matter any more – it has no specific nationality.
Up until Monday, I’d have said Nationalists had a pretty strong argument to make on that front.
The Monarchy is not only dispensing honours – it’s also dispensing a sort of national glue, binding people to itself in orders of chivalry and distinction.
Far from weakening the Union with England and Wales and Northern Ireland, Brexit actually strengthened it.
The big problem here is – as the recent assembly results suggest – that nationalism in Northern Ireland isn’t growing.
How can you say to Unionists that you respect them and their votes while at the same time saying that their country is illegitimate?
If Northern Ireland is to have normal politics, then voting must have normal consequences.
That, at the end of the day, is what nationalism is: The willingness to give yourself and your life for the country you call home
Whether a horrific crime is relevant today, or just a form of outrage archaeology is, in Sinn Fein’s telling, a simple matter of first asking which side carried it out.
One of Ireland’s outstanding and prolific writers and intellectuals, Desmond Fennell turned 90 last year. Since the late 1950s, he has published over 30 books and pamphlets dealing with what he himself described as the condition of the human person in Ireland. That has been the basis of philosophy in the western tradition for several […]
As Irish politicians scramble to help every group and organisation on earth other than its own citizens, you’d be forgiven for wondering who they actually represent. Simon Coveney, Fine Gael Minister for Foreign Affairs, courted controversy on Thursday when he announced that Ireland would be quadrupling its contribution to the World Health Organisation. #Ireland strongly […]
A number of men angrily confronted Tánaiste Simon Coveney as he left the meeting, expressing their frustration with the party’s support for abortion and its immigration policies.