Tag: History
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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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Digging in the Wrong Place : The Archaeological Value Chain
Indiana: Balloq’s medallion only had writing on one side? You sure about that? Sallah: Positive!Indiana: Balloq’s staff is too long.Indiana, Sallah: They’re digging in the wrong place! There is a particular conversation you only have while leaning on a shovel.…
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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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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…
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Queen Medb and Lakshmi, Irish Kingship and the Feminine Power
“for ’tis I that exacted a singular vow, such as no woman before me had ever required of a man of the men of Erin, namely, a husband without avarice, without jealousy, without fear. For should he be mean, the…
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The Curious Re-Emergence of an Ancient Irish Tuath
Indiana: Balloq’s medallion only had writing on one side? You sure about that? Sallah: Positive! Indiana: Balloq’s staff is too long. Indiana: Sallah: They’re digging in the wrong place! Raiders of the Lost Ark, (1981) County Sligo, and the…