Category: History
Local history, anarchist history, social movements
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Sligo, the Odyssey, and the Stream that Flows Backwards
A disguised kingdom: Ó hEoghusa’s Odyssey, and what it says about being unrecognised. Understanding Sligo Series -1 First published in 2017 and since updated. Sligo’s last untranslated native name, and the failure of Sligos heritage protection. The Waterfall There is…
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What Streedagh Still Holds
The Galeón Andalucía in Sligo, June 30th 2026 Article modified to correct errors on mass and scale in the first version. This research is ongoing! Four hundred and thirty-eight years ago, three ships of the Levant squadron drove ashore at…
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The Wrong Kind of Irish: Sligo, the West, and the Two Conquests of Ireland
Warning! book length essay – 26,689 words “The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is ‘knowing thyself’ as a product of the historical process to date which has deposited in you an infinity…
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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…
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Bulmer Hobson: The Revolutionary Who Survived to Imagine a Different Ireland
Dylan Foley Words:19054 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…
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Outside The Colony Irish History Podcast Series
A Travision Foundation & All Is Motion Collaboration Narratives of History Talk with Professor Fangzhe Qiu of Maynooth. Science: DNA Studies. Science: Microbiome Studies.
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John Butler Yeats; Anarchism & Art in the Making of Modern Ireland
“I know that there are many historians, or at least writers on historical subjects, who still think it necessary to apply moral judgments to history, and who distribute their praise or blame with the solemn complacency of a successful schoolmaster.…
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The Mind and the Colonial Death Star
Author – Bernard Sweeney 2021 Wouldn’t it be enlightening to know the unknown, to know something you always had known deep down, and something that makes more sense once known. For example, say if someone said that the Settled Irish…