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"There is absolutely no evidence that the girl not being given a medal was due to racism. In fact, she was given a medal shortly thereafter."

Fact-Check: Was a black girl denied a gymnastics medal due to racism in Ireland? | The Burkean There is absolutely no evidence that the girl not being given a medal was due to racism. In fact, she was given a medal shortly thereafter.

The crowd sized around 400 people with locals of all ages in attendance [...] These locals are not going to be so easily swept aside.

Newbridge Says No: Massive Turnout on Wednesday Evening | The Burkean The crowd sized around 400 people with locals of all ages in attendance [...] These locals are not going to be so easily swept aside.

"As Ukraine’s advance falters in the east, as Western stockpiles dry up, and now their strongest proponent grows tired of the abuse for not allowing their farmers to become impoverished, it is a very real possibility that Ukraine might not see out this war as Western hawks may want, particularly if Russia secures Iranian missiles and North Korean ammunition to supplement its still vast reserves of materials."

https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2023/09/30/poland-packs-it-in-ukraine-is-not-ready-for-the-long-war

The European Union’s desired result — the accession of the entire Balkan region as member states, is flawed as hapless Eurocrats in Brussels and Berlin neglect to recognise the all too present reality of cultural nationalism in this region. The West’s so-called “international community” has several issues to resolve within this region, all of which an increasingly insecure European Union has failed to adopt the agency to address.

The Powder Keg Reignites? The Western Balkans in an Era of Multipolarity | The Burkean As the Russian war against Ukraine, and the ongoing crisis in Western Africa continue, it is clear to all that European and American security institutions have perpetuated systemic failures in their commitment to the liberal-humanitarian politics of the global era.  …

Modern pro-Treatyite sympathies now rally around Cumann na nGaedheal with a more radical right-wing splinter group An Dian Cecht breaking away to form Ireland’s answer to ultranationalist and right-wing populist parties and which hosted a conference recently with the Alternative für Deutschland at the RDS.

One right-wing TD in attendance at the event courted media and republican scorn for joking about the death of De Valera on his Twitter account with left-wing commentators running repeated investigative pieces about old elements of the Free State’s military and intelligence infrastructure sympathetic with the far right.

If They Shot Dev Not Collins An Alternative Timeline | The Burkean Setting: Glasnevin Cemetery August 22nd, 2022 in Ireland (but not as we know Her) A volley of ceremonial rifle rounds was heard shortly after Sinn Féin leader and President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State Eoin Ó …

In a sense, Berkeley’s economic and cultural platform is the reversal of the dominant Liberal Radicalism platform of the 17th and 18th Centuries in British and Irish politics. Whether under the realisation of 1688 under the Whig Walpole, or the repeal of Corn Laws under the Tory Peel (which exacerbated the Famine) – the ‘left’ and ‘right’ represented the dominance of the entrenched consumerist Anglo-Saxon empire and its exporting of Liberalism to its colonies.

The Querist: George Berkeley's National Economic System | The Burkean The following first appeared on the Substack ‘Creeve Rua’ and is syndicated with the permission of the author. While the trite cultural spat over George Berkeley’s colonial legacy interests me little, I’m glad the Bishop has been thrust into the limelight again, …

The inordinate acceptance of Ukrainian refugees was the Irish elite’s admission fee to be part of the Western alliance without having functional defence forces with the precedent all too relevant when it comes to this new Cold War in Africa.

Visa Diplomacy: West African Carnage Will Have Asylum Blowback for Ireland | The Burkean ...while smug ministers at home swamp Irish housing estates with Africans to “fulfill our international obligations.”

The Hibernian was a small but powerful outlet for the Irish nationalist Right during the late 00s with a stridently Catholic and Republican editorial line.

It is now archived online.

https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2023/08/17/the-hibernian-archive-irish-nationalist-magazine-now-online

Mainly to the detriment of Sinn Féin and certainly not to the benefit of Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil or even Aontú, a circa 5% jump has occurred since November for “Independents or Others” in national polling figures.

https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2023/07/24/the-east-wall-effect

Mainly to the detriment of Sinn Féin and certainly not to the benefit of Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil or even Aontú, a circa 5% jump has occurred since November for “Independents or Others” in national polling figures.

The East Wall Effect: Independents Posed to Capitalise off Ireland’s Rightward Shift | The Burkean Mainly to the detriment of Sinn Féin and certainly not to the benefit of Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil or even Aontú, a circa 5% jump has occurred since November for “Independents or Others” in national polling figures.

Ignore the Barbie/Oppenheimer nonsense; transcend this foreign false dichotomy with Lanklet Dev’s review of Faith of Our Fathers…

The Burkean Reviews: Faith of Our Fathers | The Burkean Ignore the Barbie/Oppenheimer nonsense; transcend this foreign false dichotomy with Lanklet Dev's review of Faith Of Our Fathers…

Alhamdulillah - Ógra Fianna Fail Rep Speaks at Dublin anti-Quran Burning Protest at Swedish Embassy

Ógra Fianna Fail Rep Speaks at Dublin anti-Quran Burning Protest at Swedish Embassy | The Burkean Last Saturday the 29th of July saw a protest organised by a group called “Pakistani Oversees Community Ireland” outside the Swedish Embassy on Fitzwilliam Street. The motivation for the protest was multiple incidents of Quran burning in Sweden causing outrage …

Martin’s visit serves to reiterate Ireland’s commitment to fund ailing African states.

Tánaiste to Waste more Time and Money on Mozambique & South Africa | The Burkean Of course, the state is unlikely to sign any meaningful contracts beneficial to the Irish economy, and the trip is simple virtue signalling at taxpayer expense celebrating funding corruption regime's at taxpayer expense.

"The 85-page report outlines the trademark characteristics all too familiar to the practice of Asian ethnicity (overwhelmingly Pakistani) grooming gangs active across Britain."

Tusla Grooming Scandal: Rotherham Syndrome Spreads to Ireland? | The Burkean The 85-page report outlines the trademark characteristics all too familiar to the practice of Asian ethnicity (overwhelmingly Pakistani) grooming gangs active across Britain

"The worst Irish contribution to European Civilisation since Johnny Logan, a few feckless Fine Gael MEPs pandering for non-existent votes to their left may doom farms from Karelia to Killarney."

Nature Restoration Law: Fine Gael Ignites the Fuse on Agrarian Populism? | The Burkean The worst Irish contribution to European Civilisation since Johnny Logan, a few feckless Fine Gael MEPs pandering for non-existent votes to their left may doom farms from Karelia to Killarney.

“People know exactly what’s going on, and they play along. Afterwards, they feel embarrassed or disliked." - Morrissey

Morrissey - The Original Volcel | The Burkean "People know exactly what's going on, and they play along. Afterwards, they feel embarrassed or disliked."

"Instead of Eurofederalism, a new and turbo-charged Atlanticism rules the roost in Europe today as America, even the Biden administration begins to notice the rust gathering on what Eurocrats still hope to be a superpower in the making."

Ireland, the EU and the Superpower That Stumbled | The Burkean Eurosceptics would do well to look beyond the totalitarian bluster of the EU to see a bloc struggling to keep its head above geopolitical water. While Europhilia remains just as toxic to Irish national aspiration as it was in 2021 …

"There is some history too on the Tibradden mountain with a cairn and burial site here. The cairn was excavated in 1849 and when it was uncovered, antiquarians found a small stone-lined grave that contained a pottery food vessel of Bronze Age type."

https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2023/06/06/wandering-in-the-great-outdoors-a-gaelic-tradition

Talk given by Malachy Steenson on the current state of Ireland's anti-coalition protest movement during The Burkean's third summer school last week. A big thanks to all who attended.

Malachy Steenson | Burkean Summer School 2023 Talk given by Malachy Steenson during The Burkean's third summer school in 2023. A big thanks for all who attended.Website: https://www.theburkean.ie/Donate ...

"Many or most Irish republicans were sincere Catholics, often devout Catholics."

Bodenstown or Downpatrick? | The Burkean "Many or most Irish republicans were sincere Catholics, often devout Catholics."

"Dr. Jones, an apologist for the ethnically Irish and confessionally Catholic community of his nascence, is simultaneously a vociferous exponent of his own particular formulation of modernity’s discursive quintessence – namely, the hermeneutic of suspicion. A genus of argument encompassing Nietzsche’s genealogical method, Marx’s critique of ideology (hinges on Marx’s economism, an artefact of his system shattered by the Bernstein affair), and Freudian psychoanalysis."

‘Ye Wife Swapping Sodomites!’ E Michael Jones’ and ‘Degenerate Moderns’ | The Burkean “Hither flock all the crowd whom love has wrecked Of intellectuals without intellect And sexless folk whose sexes intersect….” – Roy Campbell, ‘The Georgiads’ Introduction “G’way, ye wife swapping sodomites.” – Úna Bean Mhic Mhathúna The mere mention of Dr. …

Documenting his experiences in the semi-biographical A Radical’s Response, Dunbell set in motion Crotty’s rise to become Ireland’s leading eurosceptic gadfly, germinating an original prognosis about Ireland’s economic dysfunction.

Raymond Crotty: Escaping the Gaelic Latifundia — MEON Documenting his experiences in the semi-biographical A Radical’s Response, Dunbell set in motion Crotty’s rise to become Ireland’s leading eurosceptic gadfly, germinating an original prognosis about Ireland’s economic dysfunction.

"It is presumed that a post-Sinn Féin government would bring a fresh gust of wind into the sails of right-wing populism in Ireland, the risk however, is rather than that their voter base become entirely disengaged from the political system as a whole, rather than being anti-establishment with intent to change, but that a sentiment of despondence or apathy informs people’s mentality towards voting."

Sinn Fein and the Risk of Post-Populist Fatigue | The Burkean Speculation as to Sinn Fein’s utility as a party of government and its actions therein are prevalent. The question as to whether a Sinn Féin government could fulfil its rhetorical election promises is a significant one, which may have repercussions …

"F**k Irlanda": The Reality of Migrant Anti-Irish Sentiment

"F**k Irlanda": The Reality of Migrant Anti-Irish Sentiment | The Burkean This isn't a religious problem, so much as a Third World problem. They see us as weak. They see our country as ripe for the taking.