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Category: Historical Research
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The War on Progress: How Today’s Elite Counter-Attack Echoes 1914
What if the unrest and chaos in politics right now is quite simply explained by looking at the history of the struggle between elites and workers in western societies. The survival of feudal elites and their offshoots is indeed a remarkable aspect of modern western societies, but their launch of a counter-revolution against the advance…
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Bulmer Hobson: The Revolutionary Who Survived to Imagine a Different Ireland
Dylan Foley Words:19054 Time to read:50 minutes Introduction On Good Friday 1916, Bulmer Hobson found himself in an absurd and bitter predicament. His own comrades in the Irish Republican Brotherhood—men he had recruited, trained, and worked alongside for over a decade—kidnapped him and held him captive in a house in the Dublin suburbs. They weren’t…
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The Democratic Deficit: Ireland’s Invisible Political Ceiling
A data-driven analysis of elected positions and democratic participation. Dylan Foley [[Written with Claude AI : Figures may be wonky but you get the idea, just dont quote this in your thesis]] The Shock Factor The United States has 471,335 elected positions across federal, state, county, municipal, and special district governments. Ireland has 1,166.But this…
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John Butler Yeats; Anarchism & Art in the Making of Modern Ireland
Contents Ireland in 1839 Part I: Making of a Radical “To thine own self be true” Trinity and the Law Part II: Ireland in Crisis Not So Revolutionary Ireland Young Ireland’s Alternative The Empire Strikes Back Part III: Radical Tradition John O’Leary Exiles in Garden City Arts and Crafts Movement Arts and Crafts Republic Part…
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Rural Ireland is Rich, not Poor: The Exploitation of Ireland by its Own System
Despite success in raising living standards in Ireland since independence, and especially since joining the EU in the early seventies, Irish governments have failed to prevent the imbalance of development in Dublin at the expense of almost every region in the country. Emigration has remained a preferred solution to economic downturns, with the forcing of young…