| All Articles |
| Articles By Author |
| Articles By Magazine |
| Articles By Subject |
| Full Text Search |
| Aubane Historical Society |
| The Heresiarch Website |
| Athol Books Online Sales |
| Athol Books Home Page |
| Archive Of Articles From Church & State |
| Archive Of Editorials From Church & State |
| Archive Of Articles From Irish Political Review |
| Archive Of Editorials From Irish Political Review |
| Belfast Historical & Educational Society |
| Athol Books Secure Online Sales |
| Irish Writer Desmond Fennell |
| The Bevin Society |
| David Morrison's Website |
Subscribe Securely To
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
| From: Church & State: Editorials |
| Date: January, 2013 |
| By: Jack Lane |
| Title: Vatican 2 - What Went Wrong? |
| There has been much agonising by figures in the Catholic Church on the 50th anniversary of the opening of Vatican 2. Nobody can now deny that this was the harbinger of a decline in the strength of Irish Catholicism, as this magazine has always claimed. But what exactly went wrong? Fr. Vincent Twomey SVD is emeritus Professor of Moral Theology at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth and a leading expert on the subject of theology. He had a piece in the Irish Catholic on 1st October to explain what went wrong...Read Full Article |
| From: Problems: Articles |
| Date: January, 2013 |
| By: Eamon Dyas |
| Title: First World War Anti-German Propaganda |
| War propaganda is a peculiar art. Aside from its purpose of demoralising the enemy through the dissemination of false and misleading information among its people and armed forces it has two domestic purposes. Firstly, it must be capable of convincing its own people that the effort in sustaining a war is worth the sacrifice; and secondly, it must serve to debilitate an alternative account of events that might serve an enemy’s purpose. Censorship is an important component in all of this but while it can impede its transmission it cannot prevent the emergence of a domestically generated questioning of the core purpose of the propaganda. That is why the propaganda must be credible in furnishing an explanation of the enemy’s behaviour on a number of levels. On a popular level Britain’s explanation of Germany’s behaviour was based on a rather crude depiction of it as emanating from a basic flaw in that nation’s culture and history which made it prone to the development of a militarism that rode roughshod over the rights of other nations. In contrast to this the British represented themselves as the bastion of civilised behaviour destined to stand up to and eventually defeat this evil juggernaut. However, alongside this there developed a more sophisticated explanation which emerged from a rather crude beginning in the aftermath of the Boer War into a cultivated tool in the hands of French propagandists in the aftermath of the first Moroccan crisis of 1906. We see this in the changes undergone by the Entente propaganda explanation of Pan-Germanism during the period up to the start of the First World War.Read Full Article |
| From: Irish Political Review: Editorials |
| Date: December, 2012 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: Therapeutic Abortion |
| The death of Mrs. Savita Halappanavar as a result of medical shortcomings in connection with complications in a miscarriage is likely to bring about a much-needed reform of arrangements in such situations. The only statute law governing abortion is the 19th century British-made Offences Against The Person Act. That is modified by the clause in the Irish Constitution that there is an equal right to life between an unborn and its mother, enacted by referendum. This provision came about as a result of a legal case, brought by an underage statutory rape victim. Her family was appealing an injunction brought by Attorney General Harold Whelehan to prevent the girl from leaving the country to obtain an abortion. Whelehan was over-ruled by the Supreme Court and the person concerned travelled to England for an abortion. Subsequently, referendums confirmed the Right to Information about Abortion to be made available in Ireland and the Right to Travel for Abortion. The X-Case ruling was not overturned by referendum...Read Full Article |
| From: Irish Foreign Affairs: Editorials |
| Date: December, 2012 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: Egypt and Democracy |
| The democratisation of certain Arab States was considered advantageous to the globalist interests of the West—the West being the USA and the European Union—and it was actively supported by propaganda and other means. The democratisation of other Arab States was not considered advantageous to Western interests, and the West assisted in the suppression of democratic movements in them.Read Full Article |
| From: Labour Affairs: Editorials |
| Date: December, 2012 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: THE ‘ONE NATION’ SPEECH THAT ED MILIBAND NEVER MADE |
| (This discarded draft was found by Labour Affairs in a Brighton gutter after the Labour Party’s conference in October. It was probably written by a special adviser who has since been sacked. Labour Affairs thought that it was worth printing as an indication of ‘what might have been’). Read Full Article |