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...

Oswald Spengler – Prophet of Western Decline

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zVpKwDxpAI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx6M2IKYAE4 Oswald Spengler in IF library.

Irish High Crosses

July 2010: The High Crosses are some of the greatest examples of how powerful religious communities supported and encouraged art in Early Christian Ireland. An Irish art form was developed, with artists working in metal, velum and wood as well as stone. This period is now looked on as The Golden Age of Irish art. Irish High Crosses Exhibition - National Museum of Ireland (Collins Barracks, Dublin)

Cú Chulainn in the GPO: The Mythic Imagination of Patrick Pearse

‘But where can we draw water,’Said Pearse to Connolly,‘When all the wells are parched away?O plain as plain can be There’s nothing but our own red blood Can make a right Rose Tree.’ —W. B. Yeats On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, while all Europe was mobilized for the first of its terrible civil wars, Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and several hundred “militia men” from the Irish Citizen Army and the Nationalist Volunteers commandeered the General Post Office on Dublin’s O’Connell (then S...

The Celtic Warrior Tradition – Julius Evola

"The legendary history of Ireland is based on the events of races that later invaded it and dominated it, coming from a mysterious Northern-Atlantic center, to which they sometimes returned. The Historia britorum often gives to this center the name Hiberia, but in truth such a term is only an imaginative rendering of the Irish names Magh-Mo, Tragh-Mor, or Magh-Mell, designating the "Land of the Dead", namely, the primordial Northern-Atlantic center. There are many stories surrounding such race...

Language Revivalism around the World: What can we learn?

On the subject of Irish language revival (see my previous post), I think it is worthwhile to look into other initiatives where other ethnic groups are trying to save their native tongue from language death. It may prove useful to see not only what we can learn from their endeavours but also to uncover what may be successful and applicable to our situation and also to avoid their mistakes. On this point I think we have plenty to learn judging by where we are currently at. We possess all the cri...

The Failure of Irish Language Revival

I recently happened to come across an interesting study on Irish language revivalism which was conducted by an American entitled: Modern Irish: A Case Study in Language Revival Failure (from which I have use excerpts and have attached at the end of post). It is quite worth the time to read (it’s fairly short) as it brings to attention things we may have skimmed over and overlooked in relation to revitalizing our native language. Still, the same old criticisms are evident concerning the Irish ...

Ó Pheann an Phiarsaigh

The Writings of Pearse "A visually compelling major new film for TG4 on one of the most enigmatic and controversial leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising was launched this evening at the newly restored Pearse family home in Dublin by the Chairman of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Bob Collins. Ó Pheann an Phiarsaigh is an hour-long dramatic montage from award-winning director Alan Gilsenan that draws solely on Pearse's own writings as it attempts to weave an artistic vision ...

Reeling in the years to resurrect forgotten Ireland

It's Ireland as recorded by the cameras from an age before TV news channels and the internet. One of the oldest media companies in the world, Pathe was established in Paris in the 1890s and by 1910 was producing its famous bi-weekly newsreel the 'Pathe Gazette' in Britain. The company also boasted an Irish edition, whose archives stretch as far back as Queen Victoria's visit to Ireland in 1900. And the cameras kept rolling through the War Of Independence, the foundation of the State, the Blue...

A Lesson from history

Herbert Moore Pim was raised in Lisburn, Antrim. Raised Presbyterian he converted to Catholicism. In his thirties he became an Irish Nationalist, or ,appeared to be.  He was given a high degree of trust and informed of the plans for 1916. His house was used to stockpile arms before they were issued to the Volunteers. At this point, he decides he wants out and under death threats runs off to the heart of Empire, London. He then became a staunch Unionist, writing for a journal. One of his attempt...