The global soul-searching over the issue of racism, contemporary and historic, that has taken place since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May has not escaped Ireland. It has taken many forms, some instructive, others less so. One of the most commented-on has been an investigation of the ways in which the […]
At a time when some appear intent on creating a mythological past for the Irish people, physical remembrances of our history have come under threat. Moore Street, site of the last armed confrontation of the 1916 Rising was once a vibrant street in the heart of the city where a large proportion of Dubs did their […]
The British newspaper, the Guardian, is possibly the most tediously woke media organ on the planet. It never found a progressive cause it didn’t like and constantly lectures us ordinary folk on our many failings including our “privilege” and our need for shame and for re-education. The past week, the paper has been unusually quiet on revelations that […]
Given the woke left and Black Life Matters movement’s obsession with the architectural vestiges of the vile slave trade that was abolished in the 1800s in the west, you would imagine that they might be exercised by the existence of modern slavery. It would appear not. Much easier to draw up lists of statues and […]
Following the Black Lives Matter riots in America, People Before Profit want Ireland to raise a memorial in Galway acknowledging Irish people’s historical guilt regarding the slave trade. Is this a case of self-hating political correctness gone mad? Ben Scallan comments. #gript
Following the tearing down of a statue of Edward Colston, an English philanthropist and slave trader, by rioters in Bristol, the BBC has helpfully published a list of other statues of individuals with links to the slave trade. The list is in an article, headlined “London statues with slavery links ‘should be taken down’”, which quotes […]