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May-06 - What I'm going to say in Copenhagen
Apr-04 - Where Christ is concerned. I’m with the “heretic” Dostoevsky – a thought for Easter
Mar-15 - The shocking intolerance of alleged radicals to religious belief is the path to the KZ Camps, the Gulag and Pol Pot's Year Zero
Mar-01 - The media must be held to account for its championing of discredited FRU spook Ian Hurst (Martin Ingram)
Feb-14 - In the name of love, Carol Ann Duffy desecrates a dying anti fascist
Jan-17 - More factually incorrect Unionist propaganda from David Adams and the Irish Times
Jan-01 - De Silva - Ian Hurst's credibility demolished - How did we end up all staring at a parrot instead of investigating British Intelligence’s dirty war?
Dec-28 - Christmas homage to Copenhagen
Dec-17 - Chapter 15 of the De Silva Report has destroyed the final spook infiltration myth - and tells us why these stories were put into circulation
Dec-15 - Is De Silva aware that the same spook gang murdered celebrity comedian Patrick Kielty's father a year earlier?
Dec-11 - Pat Finucane – The British should declare that it was war - a very dirty war
Dec-07 - De Silva – Sinn Féin leader Alex Maskey also targeted – Spook Good Friday Agreement Hoax further exposed.
Dec-04 - The Guardian's Henry McDonald founders on the rocks of liberal Unionism
Dec-02 - 14 thousand genuine visits to this site in November 2012 - Why?
Nov-18 - The day my youngest son came into the world - An lá a tháinig mo mhac is óige ar an tSaol - 18-11-2002
Nov-10 - Peace Process - time for the "Irish" to wake up and smell the Fair Trade coffee
Oct-18 - The Smithwick Tribunal descends into pure farce
Oct-07 - What are politicians and philosophers for if they don’t mean what they say?
Oct-04 - Why every Irish person should know about English footballer Kevin Beattie
Aug-17 - Colm Tóibín ’s Imperial Gloss on the Irish Famine
Aug-02 - Irish barstaff victims of new Danish slave trade
Jul-28 - Henry McDonald drags the Guardian down to tabloid level once again
Jul-20 - The DUP and an abject Irish media
Jul-13 - Sinn Fein’s “Disconnect” Problem
Jun-16 - It is not madness or online war games but the soul of Europe that is being fought over in Oslo’s District Court.
Jun-09 - Spanish miners carry the true torch of resistance to the New World Order
Apr-16 - Ed Moloney’s “delicious” Stephen Glover is sacked over putrid article
Mar-28 - The Escort by Paul Larkin - a shameless plug
Mar-16 - Ed Moloney makes common cause with Henry McDonald – how the mighty are fallen
Feb-25 - How the IRA did not win its war yet fought a successful campaign - the missing Sunday Herald article
Feb-14 - How spooks are undermining peace in Northern Ireland
Feb-08 - This myth of a balanced media and the strange attacks on TG4
Jan-26 - Guardian diarist Simon Hoggart’s “liberal” version of Bloody Sunday
Jan-23 - Six Winters Tomas Tranströmer in translation
Jan-09 - The Northern Light - The Eternal Self
Jan-04 - The 1981 Hunger Strikes - Who will speak of the sectarian state that was “Northern Ireland”
Dec-20 - Our Government leaders and North Korean Tyrants
Dec-15 - Robin Jackson was not an RUC agent. He was an RUC assassin.
Nov-17 - Cinneadh an Rialtais maidir leis an teanga/The Goverment's decision regarding our language
Nov-12 - Why RTÉ’s blatant bias made Martin McGuinness the real successor to Mary McAleese
Oct-07 - Take time out to salute Tomas Tranströmer - Poet and Hero
Sep-24 - 10,000 readers of Cic Saor/Free kick or - Glasgow's James Kelman vindicated
Sep-22 - The Irish Times removes my comment on Eoghan Harris
Sep-21 - Fintan O’Toole’s real problem with Martin McGuinness
Sep-18 - The Guardian continues its “battle” with Sinn Féin
Sep-11 - A Male Soldier’s Song.* Or - the blog as self flagellation
Aug-21 - Re-mastered version of A Very British Jihad now available as an eBook
Aug-16 - Unwittingly Demonstrating the Limits of Collusion - Paul Larkin's reply
Aug-15 - All the looters looked like Tony Blair
Aug-07 - How understanding ancient myth could save your life
Jul-25 - Stieg Larsson on the myth of the lone, lunatic fascist gunman
Jul-23 - Oslo
Jun-28 - Checked Out in Tescos Prussia Street
Jun-24 - Don’t be fooled by Kevin Myers' anti loyalist tirade - it is anti working class
Jun-23 - Ku Klux Klan provoked into attack on black settlement – exclusive statement from Imperial Wizard
Jun-22 - Will the real Stakeknife please stand up?
Jun-17 - Response from Daily Telegraph US correspondent Toby Harnden to my Cic Saor blog on Harry Breen RUC.
Jun-14 - The Glorious Irish Republic - right here, right now
Jun-12 - Chief Superintendent Harry Breen – frontline warrior for the British Jihad in Ireland
Jun-02 - Irish Times censors my response to ex UDA man David Adams
May-26 - Rosemary Nelson - A Very British Murder
May-17 - Forget the Queen of England and remember the Famine
May-02 - The Message of Mayday is the opposite of murder
Apr-22 - Easter Torture
Apr-16 - Tears For Fears
Apr-03 - Another murderous bomb in Omagh – does anyone in the dissident movement have a brain, never mind a political brain?
Mar-26 - Where Modernism and Socialism went wrong
Feb-20 - Why the silence from the media about Eamon Gilmore’s Sticky past?
Feb-05 - Feargal Keane’s Blindsided Ireland
Jan-31 - Fintan embraces the Chucks - almost
Jan-15 - On the pleasure in kicking the shit out of someone - verbally expressed
Jan-08 - Stir Crazy in Arnotts
Jan-02 - 2011 - For Mary Joyce Larkin and the Manchester Irish
Dec-02 - The Rabid Republic
Nov-22 - Crisis? Let me tell you what the word crisis actually means.
Nov-13 - The Definition of Irish
Nov-07 - Why stop at poor Jean McConville?
Oct-05 - Another dissident bomb in the realm of GBH
Sep-23 - The Guardian's Ireland Correspondent - Henry McDonald and censorship
Sep-21 - Living in a rough area - a pub conversation
Sep-14 - Paisley - The Kettle Calls The Pot Black
Aug-22 - Thinking outside the box gives you double vision - Try it. You'll Like It!
Aug-17 - Phil Kelly - In Ómós - En Memoria - In Memory
Jul-15 - Journalism and the Orange Broederbond
Jul-12 - Embracing life whilst claiming to prepare for death
Jun-17 - Bloody Sunday and ideology – once again journalists prefer not to look
Jun-14 - The reason I run
May-31 - After Israel kills Gaza activists in open seas; a question -
May-19 - Slaves No More - Time To Shout Stop
May-07 - The English Tories, The Ulster Unionists and the Dublin “Intelligentsia”
May-01 - For May Day 2010
Apr-19 - The Easter Rising Meets The Life of Brian
Apr-05 - The welcome collapse of the Catholic priesthood
Mar-28 - File na hAlban - Scottish Poet Don Paterson gets the queen of England's seal of approval
Mar-13 - Extended reaction to the previous blog on dissidents and drug gangs
Mar-11 - The slaughter and corruption of Irish youth – North and South
Feb-18 - As another RTÉ personality stands for Fine Gael - we discover that George Lee was on Leave of Absence
Feb-06 - The Long Drive To Peace
Feb-01 - Stephen Collins and a parody of political analysis
Jan-27 - Nostalghia – Nothing holds a candle to Andrei Tarkovsky
Jan-13 - The woman who had never been to Brazil
Jan-10 - The land of Mickey Mouse
Jan-09 - Pat Finucane – Lest We forget
Jan-03 - Palestine and the Ulster Plantation
Dec-31 - The Beautiful Squaw and the Visiting Brave
Dec-29 - Credo - Creidim - I believe
Dec-13 - Scéal don nollaig - Christmas Story
Dec-10 - Terry Eagleton – Cozying up to “The Man”?
Dec-01 - Flamingos in Dublin
Nov-25 - Sisyphus, John Lennon and the death of architect and mate Brian Anson
Nov-10 - Ibsen the incendiary, unrepentant, insurgent humanist
Nov-05 - Buaiteoir Chorn Uí Riada 2009 - Doimnic Mac Giolla Bhríde
Sep-06 - Paidir Theilifíse
Sep-02 - On Pavlov, Pavlova, Eric Cantona and Drugs
Aug-12 - The Quiet Read
Jul-15 - Home is not a word
May-27 - The devil at the heart of the Irish Catholic Church
May-01 - A response from Brian Anson to today's May Day blog on Martin McGuinness
Apr-30 - May Day Greetings – what James Larkin Jones and Martin McGuiness have in common
Apr-10 - The match, the plaster and the immortal. Good Friday 09
Mar-31 - Gunsmoke - Henry McDonald’s True Colours, by Paul Larkin
Mar-28 - The Wall That Isn't
Mar-05 - Understanding Life
Feb-02 - Statement from the Hope Not Hate organisation regarding the strikes in England
Jan-29 - Words of consolation when we must grieve for a dead child
Jan-28 - Celebration of life of BOB DOYLE & Comrades - Celebraciones por las vidas de BOB DOYLE y sus camaradas : Dublin Sat 14 feb '09
Jan-20 - Reactions to my Boycott Israel Blog
Jan-16 - Remember Captain Boycott – Boycott Israel.
Nov-21 - The Naming of Things - On the occasion of my fifty first birthday – 21/11/08
Nov-05 - The Joy of Books, the Joy of Work
Oct-30 - Mind Games
Sep-21 - Director’s Cut
Sep-14 - Scene on a Dublin bus
Aug-23 - The Fall and Irresistible Rise of Irish Plastic - A Short Extract From The Novel
Aug-17 - Writers are liars
Aug-12 - Ó Crann i bPáirc an Fhionn Uisce
Jul-28 - New York – Exciting gateway to the northern USA
May-10 - Flight of the Earls film feted abroad and ignored by Ireland's “Litterati”
May-09 - More Aphorisms
Apr-11 - After Eight
Mar-12 - Maidir le mo chara Cathal Ó Searcaigh
Feb-17 - The North – How Ireland’s ‘left wing’ literati ended up supporting the far right.
Feb-06 - I ndíl chuimhne ar - in fond memory - The Busby Babes
Feb-02 - Aphorisms/Sayings
Jan-15 - Cic Saor returns for 2008
Dec-09 - Dánta a scríobh mé le gairid/Recent Poems
Oct-31 - Scéal fá choinne Oíche Shamhna - A story for Halloween
Oct-22 - Response to the "Coming out as an artist" blog - from visionary yet definitely not hooked up Architect Brian Anson
Oct-22 - Ag teacht amach mar ealaíontóir - Coming out as an artist
Oct-18 - AN SEO ÁR dTODHCHAÍ ? - IS THIS OUR FUTURE? - EEK!
Oct-04 - Revealed - The real difference between Germans and the Irish
Sep-27 - The importance of Anthony H Wilson, Manchester and male bonding
Aug-20 - Alma Pater
Aug-10 - The Irish Times and loyalist violence - the censorship continues.
Jul-24 - John Wilson T.D. Laoch na nGael ar lár – Trócaire Dé ar a anam dílis
Jun-09 - "Lets make GREED history" outburst on prime time TV shock
Jun-03 - Idir tóin is bod
Jun-01 - Think before you think - some responses
Jun-01 - Child abduction - Thinking the unthinkable – Think before you think
May-27 - The election - a better result than first appears for the left.
May-11 - The DUP prodigal sheriff rides into town. Let's all support the new sheriff!
May-10 - County Manchester
Mar-26 - DOCHREIDTE! - UNBELIEVABLE!
Mar-25 - The British Government pays the Irish Mafia to go away - it wont.
Feb-13 - PIN SHARP
Feb-08 - Women Prefer Freud – Men Prefer Football
Feb-01 - An Óg-Tuathánach
Jan-22 - RUC collusion with loyalist killers - Sir Ronnie Flanagan has questions to answer
Dec-20 - Death of a Journalist
Dec-16 - I nDil Cuimhne Mary B Anson
Nov-30 - First Barron Inquiry Binned ! - What the media will not say
Nov-29 - Undtagelsen – The Exception – a psychological thriller for a cynical Denmark?
Nov-26 - The Chief of Police, the “Lunatic” and the Yellow Press
Nov-23 - An Irish Times agus an fhírinne
Nov-11 - Standing at the grave of Søren Kierkegaard – 1-11-06 – Lá na Naomh Uile - All Saints Day
Sep-25 - Welcome to Emporia
Aug-10 - Celtic Niggers and the Chihuahua Al Pacifico Train
Jul-21 - Mexican sails pitch
Jul-19 - Viva Mexico
Jul-14 - Can we start thinking about the children of Palestine?
Jul-07 - THE DIGNITY OF LABOUR
Jun-29 - A pregnant woman in repose on a hot summer’s day
Apr-02 - the murder of Séamus Ludlow
Mar-02 - Fintan O’Toole and Fascism.
Jan-31 - On completing Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (Bliain Úr 2006)
Jan-26 - Fascism has not gone away - Fascist Trade Union establilshed in UK - No Pasaran !
Jan-20 - After the election of Michelle Bachelet as President of Chile, listen to "Venceremos" by Working Week again and remember - We Will Win
Jan-16 - THE RUN OF YOUR LIFE - poem
Jan-12 - Dublin Discalced
Jan-08 - Do Dogs Dream of a Canine Oedipus? Some questions for Sigmund Frued and pseudo analysts everywhere
Dec-22 - Brazil reveals its secrets - time for Ireland to do the same.
Dec-20 - Update on Evo Morales's historic victory in Boliva - attacks US "blackmailers"
Dec-19 - Great news from Bolivia
Dec-17 - Broad Translation to English of Denis Donaldson article below.
Dec-17 - Denis Donaldson – agus seo uilig cionn is gur iarr muid cothrom féinne.
Dec-14 - Never The Twain Shall Meet ? - North South Unity
Dec-12 - Scéal Frank Connolly agus “Saighdiúirí na gCinniúna.”
Dec-09 - The battlefield for the control of knowledge will be won or lost in -
Dec-08 - Thought For The Day
Dec-07 - Sliocht as gearrscéal - Portráid den Avant-Garde ón Danmhairgis. Peter Høeg a scríobh an cnuasach.
Dec-07 - NOT ANTI-YANKEEE - JUST ANTI BUSH