Category: Politics & Society
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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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Dublin’s Great Greenway Swindle
Featured Image : The Snow Ghost – Scooby Doo, 1969 How a Dublin-Controlled Civil Service in cahoots with politicians Has Systematically Blocked Western Rail for Fifteen Years — And Why They Want Your Railway Tracks for Cycle Paths “Mr. Greenway…
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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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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…
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The Archaeological Peninsula: Sligo’s Development Constraints and Planning Crisis
Sacred Ground, Modern City Planning Within Ancient Landscapes Article 1 of 7 Archaeological Constraints • UNESCO Heritage • Urban Planning • Neolithic Landscape How one of Ireland’s most significant Neolithic landscapes is reshaping urban planning in the 21st century Sligo…
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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.…