My maternal grandfather Tommy Byrne was a Quartermaster in the Irish Citizen Army. He was caught with weapons and whilst banged up in a Free State jail he began a hunger strike that lasted 23 days, before he was pressured…
My maternal grandfather Tommy Byrne was a Quartermaster in the Irish Citizen Army. He was caught with weapons and whilst banged up in a Free State jail he began a hunger strike that lasted 23 days, before he was pressured…
A case study on how a revolutionary movement was defeated from within. Quintessential Perfidious Albion. On 8 May 1987 I was in the Rock Bar on the Falls Rd in occupied West Belfast, the ‘Rock’ was a hotbed of revolutionary…
“The last time the tropical Pacific ran this hot, millions of people starved. The El Niño of 1877 triggered crop failures from India to Brazil and is considered one of the deadliest climate events in recorded history. Now, three of…
Followed by China’s “Century of Humiliation.” I’ve been trying to make the point that no one can truly understand the contemporary political positions of Russia’s President Putin and China’s Xi and the scholars they have surrounded themselves with for many…