Protestant Ascendancy News Today

On January 13, 1800, Daniel O’Connell made the first of many speeches opposing Ireland’s union with Great Britain, his very first public speech, at a meeting of Catholics held in the Royal Exchange, Dublin, to protest against the Union.

A century on from his Nobel Prize in Literature, his politics may be difficult, but the poetry remains sublime.

Despite brilliant work on the question of Palestine from Marxists, often Arab or anti-Zionist Jewish, many on the left continue to have an inadequate understanding of Zionism. In this essay, I attempt to offer a Marxist examination of Zionism and some of its essential features: its völkisch character, its settler colonial character, and its relation to imperialism.

In Northern Ireland, some unionists commemorate the 1690 Battle of the Boyne when the Protestant King William III defeated Catholic King James II. Outside of the country, some Apple users continue to wonder why the date is noted in their calendars.

TD Patrick Costello has released a statement proposing that the Government make a public holiday for the celebration of the Twelfth.

In 1603 James, the new Scottish king on England’s throne, began the ‘Ulster Plantation’, colonising what’s now Northern Ireland with…

The Booker-winning Irish novelist shares his views on Catholicism, the personal cost of his private success, and the crisis in publishing

Why do so many people with a Christian upbringing no longer identify as Christians? And why are the growing number of them claiming to be of “no religion” at all?

Today, on Sept 13, 1803, the Founder of the United States Navy, a Wexford man, Commodore John Barry, passed away aged 58, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

A man has died after falling more than 50ft from an enormous bonfire (pictured) in Northern Ireland.