On this day in 1700, the Scottish colonists who went to Panama as part of the Darien Scheme, returned to Scotland failing in their venture to set up a Scottish colony. This event would bankrupt Scotland and would be a catalyst to final unification with the rest of the British Isles. Only 7 years later would the Kingdom of Great Britain be established.

That time during the 80s when a group called “Socialists Against Nationalism” were putting out pamphlets saying that the Hunger Strikers were ‘sectarian-fascists’ and should be opposed

‘Socialists Against Nationalism’ was a campaign established by the British & Irish Communist Organisation, the Limerick Socialists Organisation and the Socialist Party of Ireland in the late 1970s.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/organisation/256/

Pre-Christian High King Cormac Mac Airt on the governance of a true nation.

Family, tradition, moral virtue, defense of the people are central.

Taken from the ‘Teagasc na Riogh' , a book of kingly instruction said to be written by him.