Ériu

I wish to introduce our readers to Ériu; the national personification of Ireland. Ériu was one of the queens of Ireland at the time of the coming of the Milesians (Goidelic Celts). She made a deal with the poet Amairgin that her name would be remembered as the principle name for Ireland.

Non-folk and Nationality

Online Etymology Dictionary: Nation c.1300, from O.Fr. nacion, from L. nationem (nom. natio) "nation, stock, race," lit. "that which has been born," from natus, pp. of nasci "be born" (Old L. gnasci; see genus). Political sense has gradually taken over from racial meaning "large group of people with common ancestry." Older sense preserved in application to N.Amer. Indian peoples (1640s). Nation-building first attested 1907 (implied in nation-builder). Source: http://www.etymonline....

A Dialogue on the Ideal Leader

The actors involved herein are an aged and sagacious Professor who teaches philosophy, physics and naturalism at an old and prestigious university. The second actor is the Little One who is a young and beautiful girl of 12 who often visits the professor for conversations, through which she tries to satiate her insatiable curiosity for life and the Universe; she is a clever one, with a bright future ahead of her. The Professor and Little One are sitting in the Professor's garden. The seaso...

Vaclav Havel’s Poster Test

From Bruce Charlton's Miscellany (link below): "The manager of a fruit-and-vegetable shop places in his window, among the onions and carrots, the slogan: “Workers of the world, unite!” "Why does he do it? What is he trying to communicate to the world? Is he genuinely enthusiastic about the idea of unity among the workers of the world? Is his enthusiasm so great that he feels an irrepressible impulse to acquaint the public with his ideals? Has he really given more than a moment’s thought to...

A Nationalist Principle

FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS Personal Rights Article 40 1. All citizens shall, as human persons, be held equal before the law. This shall not be held to mean that the State shall not in its enactments have due regard to differences of capacity, physical and moral, and of social function. This principle codified in our Constitution is a Nationalist principle, a common sense and just principle, and it is one which runs somewhat contrary to liberalism which, while seeking to espouse the noble goal...

Unreasonable Demonisation of Hitler?

We are inundated with anti-Hitler propaganda in the Western media; Hitler, Nazism, it is suggested, is the most evil frenzy that ever griped humans. However, there has been worse if we are measuring evil by death toll. For example, from 1945 - 1991 the U.S.S.R killed 22,400,000 people; those people were "class enemies", repatriated Soviet nationals, dissidents, and national minorities [1]. Let's compare the death toll of the Communist Soviet Union to that which was totted up during Hitler's pe...

On the Nature of Countries

The nature of a country is defined, foremost, by the biology – by the blood – of its people. A phenotype is the “blood and tissue” of an organism and it is specified by genes (the genotype) of an organism (we will ignore some academic details such as phenotypic plasticity and focus on the general principle). So, for example, some organisms have wings, wings are a phenotype. Some organisms have tails, tails are phenotypes. Or we can view all components of an organism together as a phenotype....

Posterity will hold we racists to be virtuous

It is common place in the present day for "cultural leaders" i.e. journalists and politicians (whom I believe rank among vermin) to denounce racial separatists as immoral. By looking at common place literature one would be led to believe that their view is representative of the citizenry of not only Ireland but all citizens of the West. This inference, I think, would be mistaken. The view of "cultural leaders" or if you prefer, ruling vermin, seems to be a minority view. That is, the majority ...

South Africa and Genocide

Genocide Watch is an organisation which seeks to raise public awareness and influence public policy on actually occurring or potential genocide. According to its mission statement it exist to "predict, prevent, stop, and punish genocide and other forms of mass murder". On the organisations most recently updated file on countries at risk of genocide, politicide or mass atrocities there are 37 ethnic groups . The are 8 ethnic groups currently identified to be in so-called "stage 7", which mean...

A Dialogue on the Nation-State

The actors involved herein are an aged and sagacious Professor who teaches philosophy, physics and naturalism at an old and prestigious university. The second actor is the Little One who is a young and beautiful girl of 12 who often visits the professor for conversations, through which she tries to satiate her insatiable curiosity of life and the Universe; she is a clever one, with a bright future ahead of her. The Professor and Little One have arranged to meet under a large window in an ...