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...

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...

Gross Domestic Product

Real Riches " Our object in building up the country economically must not be lost sight of. That object is not to be able to boast of enormous wealth or of a great volume of trade for their own sake. It is not to see our country covered with smoking chimneys and factories. It is not to show a great national balance sheet, nor to point to a people producing wealth with the self-obliteration of a hive of bees. The real riches of the Irish nation will be the men and women of the Irish nation the...

The Big Freeze: Community comes in from the Cold

This cartoon appeared in today's Irish Times. Apart from its humorous take on recent government ineptitude during the cold snap it also serves as an apt reflection of modern Irish society – hopelessly dependent upon systems that have failed them. Inherent weakness and fear within the Irish people have prevented the national will from properly being asserted. We state our wishes clearly in constitutional referenda only to cower in intimidation after reprimands from our ruling oligarchy. We subj...