eamon de valera

I want you to picture a simple Venn diagram. Just two little circles, no more, no less. In one circle, we have a neat little collection of the world’s most famous comedians. In the other, the nation of Ireland and the Irish people. And…

On Wednesday 10th of October, Darach, Gearóidín, Peadar and Éimear swooped upon the Sugar Club on Lesson Street for Motherfoclóir Live to discuss the importance of the Irish language to the role of president. Three presidents in particular…

Good day people. How’s your post bank holiday week going? Did you visit a bank over the long weekend? Take some holiday snaps while waiting to lodge a cheque? Get told by a curt member of staff that you can now holiday in the online bank?…

Willkommen article readers. I’ve great news for you this week. It appears that, as I heard last week, Coca Cola really have introduced Cherry Coke Zero to the Irish market. I’m currently mapping its availability across Dublin. This is truly…

While going through my grandparents’ attic recently looking for money, I unearthed a box of scripts for a serialised radio drama written in the 1940’s by my grand-uncle Myles Mac Annaigh as part of a forgotten propaganda campaign for his…

Yesterday I read something that made my blood boil. In 1939, de Valera's minister for education announced a proposal to cut mathematics as a compulsory subject at the intermediate level (equivalent to the junior certificate). He said that…

How many of us have ever read our Constitution? How many of us have had ten minutes to kill to sit down and actually see what it says? One might be curious when there are so many issues facing modern Ireland where we hear constitutional…

We've all heard of Padraig Pearse, James Connolly, Eamon De Valera, Constance "Biz" Markievicz, and Michael Collins. Some of us have even heard of Eamon "I" Ceannt "Even" thanks to @aoiph's excellent twitter joke. But the 1916 Rising was…

None of the plays attributed to Shakespeare were written by Shakespeare. We know this. It’s fact. The earth revolves around the sun, 2+2=4, Shakespeare was a disgusting fraud. These are the foundations upon which our civilisation is built.…