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'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…
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'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…
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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…
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Saoirse don Phalaistín: A brief history of Irish-Palestinian nationalism
"Palestine for the Palestinians and Ireland for the Irish people!"
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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Filíocht Fridays: Fairy forts as the last vestiges of dúchas na nGael
No matter what happens above ground in the mere material world of Ireland, beidh anam na tíre sna liosacháin.
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Filíocht Fridays: Aogán Ó Rathaille on why we are all otters now
In this week's poem, madraí uisce (otters) are envisioned as the symbol of the falling Mac Carthaigh Mór and traditional Gaelic society more generally.
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Announcing a new series: Filíocht Fridays
There is no better way of exploring the Good, the True and the Beautiful in Irish cultural history than through Gaeilge agus Filíocht.
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