“Revisionism became a purge, a way of sanitising the Irish past to make it compatible with contemporary liberalism.”-Richard Kearney Does Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc see Blueshirts in his cornflakes each morning? The left-republican academic continues the media tour of his […]

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23 April 2025

Recently, Britain’s Homeland Party announced their intentions to set up a local branch in the North of Ireland.  The endeavour has been disastrous. Homeland is a relatively new British right-wing microparty, formed in 2024, as a splinter of Patriotic Alternative. […]

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22 April 2025

On paper, at least, Coimisiún na Meán (CnaM) should be your typical apolitical, technocratic state organisation. The digital and media coordinator, not just for Ireland but a huge swathe of the European Union (EU) from its Shelbourne Road HQ, CnaM, […]

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20 April 2025

Around the time Taoiseach Martin was clenching his teeth in the Oval Office last month, his party comrade and Minister for Further and Higher Education James Lawless touched down in New Delhi for what could be argued to be an […]

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17 April 2025

Simon Harris, the TikTok Tanaiste and Minister of Foreign Affairs, has had a particularly rough time these past few weeks. Focusing too much on actually governing Ireland at the time when it faces an economic crossroads, he has left his […]

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12 April 2025

Clare-based historian Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc has published a new book titled Burn Them Out!: A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland (2025). This is a hot-button topic and certainly one of interest to readers of the […]

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10 April 2025

TCDSU President Jenny Maguire (née Craig) and her Welfare and Equality Officer Hamza Bana are on the chopping block this week as an April 6th petition to censure circled Trinity College. Such harsh criticism begs the question: what is their […]

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9 April 2025

“The future of England is not one of revolution or renaissance, but of entropy”-Anthony Burgess As of the time of writing, it would be hard not to notice a sense of unease within the United Kingdom on this side of […]

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8 April 2025

The nullification of election results in Romania, the continued clampdown against the German AfD, and now the barring of Marine Le Pen from running for the Elysee Palace in 2027 all point to a growing tendency by Euro-lib elites to […]

The post The Shield and the Sham: Inside Michael McGrath’s NGO Army appeared first on The Burkean.

2 April 2025

A hearty performance at November’s general election steadied the ship within the Soliders of Destiny as years of anti-Martin disquiet failed to amount to anything beyond internal grumbling.  Heading into semi-retirement shortly, even a return from the grave appearance by […]

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31 March 2025