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7 September 2020 Edition

Irish Republican voices against racism

7 September 2020

Opposition to racism goes back to the foundation of Republicanism in Ireland with the United Irish movement of the late 18th century Free article

Cinneadh ár gCine

7 September 2020

Is minic a chloistear faoina bhfuil le cailliúint againn muna gcaitear leis an mbith mar is ceart. Is in iarsmalanna breátha geala a bheidh aon rian dá raibh linn tráth. Is minic a rith sé liom a mhinice agus a d’airigh mé an focal ‘bhíodh’ i gcomhráití agus mé óg. ‘Bhíodh’ seo siúd agus uile á dhéanamh ansin. “Bhíodh Gaeltacht ansin tráth” arsa mo mháthair agus sinn i ngaireacht do Bhaile Mhic Óda i gContae Chorcaí, nó trí Shliabh gCua mar a raibh cónaí ar mo shinsear. Conas a cailleadh a leithéid ó bunaíodh an stát? Nach ndeirtear linn go bhfuil gach rialtas tiomanta agus cromtha ar an gcaomhnú? Bíonn gach cosaint ar phár agus bíonn beart tur éigin de réir baothbhriathar ar mhaithe leis na daoine beaga suaracha a shásamh. Bíonn, a fhad is nach bhfuil an beart ina chonstaic ar phinginí suaracha ná ag éileamh gnímh. Is fada go mbainfidh gluaiseacht na Gaeltachta mullach an tsléibhe amach, agus rúm á choimeád don gcainteoir dúchais in aice le falcóg mhór an tseitheadóra san iarsmalann. Free article

Postcards from a New Republic

7 September 2020

The ‘Postcards from the New Republic’ series is a hat tip to British designer, artist, entrepreneur and Socialist William Morris’s News from Nowhere series of articles from 1890 published in the Commonweal, the newspaper of the Socialist League and set in a distant future where Morris’s socialist, and romantic, utopia has been secured. Our story’s protagonists are Willa Ní Chuairteoir and Lucy Byrne accompanied by their four children James, Afric, Banba and Alroy who together enjoy and endure the equity and exigency of the future’s New Republic. Free article

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Ireland 1920 – A nation in turmoil

7 September 2020

The Ireland of 1920 was a country at war, in the grip of a revolutionary epoch that would define the politics of the island for much of the next century. The War of Independence was intensifying, while, electorally, Sinn Féin followed up on their stunning performance at the 1918 elections with more gains in the local elections across Ireland in January and June. Free article

An Opposition for the People

7 September 2020

Mary Lou McDonald outlines how Sinn Féin would be the most effective opposition in the history of the state. Free article


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