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Tag: Ireland

  • 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 […]

  • The Demolition of 39 High Street

    The council and the preservation laws are facilitating, albeit inadvertently, the steady loss of the old town urban fabric. Many iconic shop fronts, residential and industrial buildings, cobbled streets, mills and weirs, have been lost over the years, a legacy that does not seem to be changing.

  • Why Sligo Needs a World Class Museum

    The case for a world class museum in the town of Sligo, northwest Ireland.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 old Borough Corporation of Sligo town are roughly 400 years old, and both are creations […]

  • Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up?

    In relation to the British governments response to the Manchester suicide bomber, it is most interesting to contrast  how the Tory establishment treated IRA violence during the height of their campaigns, and this “Islamic” violence now. To put it simply, they refused to put troops on the streets of Britain no matter how bad IRA […]