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Volunteer Pearse Jordan

Conor Lynam with a poem about an IRA activist who was gunned down, unarmed, by the RUC.


Struggles, soldiers and the unwelcome army with murderous thoughts.
So on an Irish street you were executed...



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Global Warming Underlies India’s “Giant Agrarian Crisis”

From People And Nature A guest post by Nagraj Adve, first published in The Wire (India).

Farmers on the march as drought pummels productivity
A few years ago, a group of us from Delhi, along...



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Bill Flynn And The Irish Peace Process

Via The Transcripts Adrian Flannelly speaking to Niall O’Dowd last June about his latest book and about Bill Flynn and his influence on the peace process in Northern Ireland. 

Niall O’Dowd The...



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Let’s Make Free Speech The Great Cause Of 2019

Andrew Doyle writing in Spiked Online hopes 2019 sees the championing of free speech. 

Who would have thought that in 2018 it would be deemed controversial to uphold the principle of free...



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The Limits of Globalisation

Barry Gilheany discusses globalisation.

In this article I engage with the essentially contested phenomenon of globalization in the domains of culture, politics and economics. I analyse a number of...



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Populism – A Critique Of An Unclear Term

The term populism is a permanent feature in public political discourse. Samuel Salzborn considers its usefulness. 



Democracy at the beginning of the 21st century has changed...



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The European Project, Not European Federalism

Jim Duffy on the dangers of European federalism.

The Euro nearly capsized the whole European project a couple of years ago, and many experts expect it will eventually crash and burn in another major...



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