As Northern Ireland, through the DUP Education Minister Paul Givan, faces the prospect of a programme of radical education reform (widely parodied by opponents as a “Cut and Paste” job akin to the 2010-14 “Gove Reforms” in England), England appears set to 'row back' from Gove. A case of 'one step forward, two steps back' ! Below, in the first of … Continue reading Gove Reforms: What Now In England? And Northern Ireland?
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Currency Making After World War 2
An Italian Prime Minister at the Versailles Conference at the end of the Great War of 1914-18 was shocked to find that the British believed their own war propaganda and were therefore incapable of making a peace settlement based on fact. The Versailles Settlement was a punitive arrangement, based on a morality generated by wishful … Continue reading Currency Making After World War 2
Letter To The President: Choose Your Casement!
Introduction In his 2016 lecture on Casement, former Attorney General Michael McDowell cordially invited listeners “to imagine and even to judge his real character as we choose …”: in short, he invited us to ignore verified facts about the historical person and to thereby deceive ourselves by freely choosing whatever imaginary Casement took our fancy. Essentially the choice was … Continue reading Letter To The President: Choose Your Casement!
Roger Casement: . . . Witnesses – No Thanks!
In a debate in the Irish Political Review earlier this year about the typescripts—but no diary—sent by the Police to the DPP, Jeff Dudgeon stated that this “does not preclude the typed versions existing before the diary manuscripts” (Irish Political Review, April 2026). Together with other letters in the Irish Political Review, serious doubts were thereby cast upon the existence … Continue reading Roger Casement: . . . Witnesses – No Thanks!
“ Hanged By A Comma ! ”
Many books, plays and articles have been written over the last one hundred years concerning the life and death of Roger Casement, the great Irish patriot—who has been described as the “father of 20th century human rights investigations“—was knighted by the British authorities in 1911 for his investigations into human rights abuses in the Congo and … Continue reading “ Hanged By A Comma ! ”
The Brian P. Murphy OSB Archive (Series 9)
The Evolution Of British Policy And The Emergence Of A Sinn Fein Publicity Department In The Years After The Easter Rising. Mss Notes, Part 31 A New British Administration, May 1920 The appointment of Hamar Greenwood to succeed Ian Macpherson as Chief Secretary on 2nd April 1920, and the arrival in Ireland of General Macready to … Continue reading The Brian P. Murphy OSB Archive (Series 9)
Letters to the Editor
Axis Of Peace? It is probable that Russia, China and Iran are engaged in an informal alliance against the West. It is not formal and it only acts defensively but each has its own role in diminishing US hegemony - Russia/military, China/economy, Iran/strategic. There is a consciousness of this and Iran was undoubtedly helped in … Continue reading Letters to the Editor
Profile Of Robert Barton
(1905-74) Became A Nationalist At Oxford The IRISH PRESS Archive: No. 1 The IRISH PRESS Archive (We are indebted to Jack Lane for this look into the past! Editor) Robert Barton Became A Nationalist At Oxford At first sight a man like Robert Barton seems out of place in the First Dáil. … Continue reading Profile Of Robert Barton
Organised Labour
Public Sector Pay Unions target radical shift to inflation-linked public pay Unions are looking for a radical departure in the next public sector pay deal by creating a “formula” that keeps any pay agreement linked to changes in the inflationary environment for years to come. The news comes as public sector unions are continuing to … Continue reading Organised Labour
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