Over the past month I have found reasons to be both optimistic and wary towards left-unity. The large scale Cost of Living Coalition protests united the left more than they have been since the anti-water tax protests, over six years ago, on the flip side many on the left, Sinn…

2022 marks the centenary of the Irish Civil War, it is year for reflection on the nature of the conflict and discussion on how it shaped Ireland (to the extent it will even be discussed in the mainstream). In my view the war was a counter-revolution that undermined the aims…

The above Tweet went viral last week, largely in mockery of the blatant historical idiocy and moreso generic right-wing “𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯” posting. I don’t really care about the post itself (OP is dumb, so what?), but it did get me thinking about how different genres of art are politicised…

To better explore these issues let us look at Normal People. The show and, from what I have heard, the book are both fairly generic stuff masquerading as high art; a standard romance plot pumped up with surface level literary and philosophical references to create an illusion of depth and…

Last week saw the debut of Conversations with Friends, the long awaited television adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel and follow up to the smash hit Normal People. …

Much to the chagrin of Brits, West Brits and West Brits with funny accents and orange sashes Sinn Féin came out on top in last week’s Northern Ireland Assembly election. To some this is one of the biggest moments in modern Irish history and the beginning of the end of…

“The Internet Makes You Stupid”, over twenty years on Something Awful’s moniker still rings true; I’m not going to be nostalgic for political discourse from when I was a literal child, but it is clear that social media has had severe effects on not only political discourse but how we…

Over the past year or so the term “PMC” (Professional-Managerial Class) has caught on in online leftist discourse. Although it was coined by John and Barbara Ehrenreich in a 1977 essay its current usage serves as a vague inconsistent term of derision for middle-class professionals, essentially its a more elaborate…

Over the years a wide range of left-leaning parties have come and gone in Ireland, half of which either split from Labour or wound up merging with it. The Social Democrats seem to be the newest party in this long line. Founded in 2015 by three independent TDs the minor…