Archive - Aistí ó Chraobh

Irish to the core: how Chicago social thought has shaped Pope Leo XIV

While not actually of Irish extraction, the political and social philosophy of our new Pope is deeply steeped in that of Irish-American Catholicism in…

Jul 11 •

International Fennellism?: The great populist critics of neoliberal modernity

While all unique in their own way, it almost seems like every developed country has produced a national prophet of rootedness and independence against…

Jul 3 •

June 2025

Toward a 21st Century Irish Spiritual Empire

Reviving an ancient idea.

Jun 26 •

'Up to Monto': A centenary of the Legion's victory for family and social justice

This March marked the one hundred year anniversary of one of the few historic achievements of the Irish Free State, which prioritised family and…

Jun 19 •

'Goodbye to Summer': Ingmar Bergman's post-war Sweden as a symbol of technocratic cultural malaise (Fennellism, p. 3)

As a young writer Desmond Fennell questioned how such a wealthy state as post-war Sweden could be consumed by life-denying ennui (as in Bergman's…

Jun 10 •

May 2025

A reader's guide to the world of counter-cultural Irish Intellectuals

From Anti-Revisionists to radical Gaelicists, this is an introduction to the most important recent intellectuals of resistance against all that is…

May 30 •

Saoirse don Phalaistín: A brief history of Irish-Palestinian nationalism

"Palestine for the Palestinians and Ireland for the Irish people!"

May 14 •

Filíocht Fridays: Éamonn an Chnoic, the Jacobite cowboy of Tipp

This week I look at the famous sean nós ballad of tuaisceart Thiobraid Árann, and its aesthetic overlap with cowboys and tóraíocht.

May 9 •

Filíocht Fridays: Why you must learn this poem off by heart

While an obvious choice, there is virtually no other modern poem which encapsulates the spirit of the Gael so well.

May 2 •

April 2025

Filíocht Fridays: Against Gaeltwitter and wasted intellect

Being a representative of a bygone, ultracivilized bardic era, Dáibhí Ó Bruadair is best positioned to posthumously castigate the cultural wasteland of…

Apr 25 •

Filíocht Fridays: Caitlín Ní Uallacháin as the Mother of the Easter Rising

The mystical blood sacrifice of Éirí Amach na Cásca 1916 could never have been achieved without the metaphysical power of the all-encompassing…

Apr 18 •

The Easter Lily at 100: Cuimhnímis ar laochra na Cásca

You are not a nationalist if you do not follow Cumann na mBan since 1925 in wearing a Lily during Easter Week.

Apr 15 •

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