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.

Gaelicism: The Spirit of Nobility

I would like to take this opportunity to talk about Gaelicism, something which we have neglected to touch upon on this site so far (and have even lost sight of it seems). I (and others hopefully, although some of my opinions differ considerably from my fellow posters) will attempt to go some way to defining what Gaelicism is and of its purpose. While it is true that Gaelic values are not currently upheld by any streams of political thought, and arguably never has been (except perhaps in the d...

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...

Oswald Spengler’s Doctrine of History

"Thus is born Nihilism, the abysmal hatred of the proletarian of higher form of every sort, of culture as its essence, of society as its upholder and historical product. That anyone should have "form," master it, feel comfortable with it, whereas the common person feels fettered by it and unable to move freely under it; that tact, taste, a sense for tradition, should be things that belong to highly cultivated beings by inheritance; that there are circles in which a sense of duty and renunciati...

The Crisis of the Modern World – René Guénon’s Invaluable Insights

A MATERIAL CIVILIZATION * René Guénon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtqlSY6LeMk From all that has been said so far it already seems to follow clearly that those Orientals who reproach modern Western civilization with being a purely material one are fully justified; it is certainly in this direction exclusively that its development has taken place, and from whatever point of view one may look at it, one is always faced with the more or less direct consequences of this materialization. Neverth...

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...

Thomas Jefferson on the Indelible Lines Between Human Forms

Thousands of breeding generations have shaped the forms of humanity in such a fashion that we must live segregated, for all our sakes. It is surely self-evident that if the trajectory which we are presently traversing is not perturbed then, as many have commented in some way or another, the future which waits for posterity is foreboding. Thomas Jefferson sums this up: "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people [Negroes] are to be free. Nor is it less certain...

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...

Bertrand Russell on The Sate

In view of the vastness of the Sate, most men can find little political outlet for initiative except in subordinate organizations formed for specific purposes. Without an outlet for political initiative, men lose their social vigour and interest in public affairs: they become a prey to corrupt wire-pullers, or to sensation-mongers who have the art of capturing a tired or vagrant attention. The cure for this is to increase rather than diminish the powers of voluntary organisations, to give ever...