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"Mura bhfuil a fhios aige céard é an Gaelstát, bhuel, tóg na focail "Gael" agus "Stát" agus cuir iad le chéile."

Filib Ó Sandair offers a response to points raised by Edmund Spenser in his recent letter to the editor.

https://meonjournal.com/read/freagra-ar-amonn-de-spinsear
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"This brash framing of Irish identity formation mostly ignores the four centuries of ethnic strife"

From tackling calls for a 'Year of the Normans' to questioning the authenticity of Laudabiliter, Culture Crusade examines the Norman role in Irish history
https://meonjournal.com/read/norman-question
"The Platonists themselves called it anamnesis - the great work of piercing through the mental fog that surrounds us and stepping out again into the fullness of being."

John Fitzgerald on Platonist themes in C. S. Lewis' 'The Chronicles of Narnia'

https://meonjournal.com/read/a-deep-and-healing-platonism
"Without poetry fighting to keep Ireland's soul, we would have been subsumed by the English."

“National poetry is the very flowering of the soul"

In the tradition of Davis and Yeats, Brúsgar de rígheacht calls for a revival of Irish poetry.

https://meonjournal.com/read/genus-irritabile-vatum
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"In the modern age, the concept of beauty has become entirely meaningless – leaving a spiritual void in an increasingly unappealing world."

From classical perceptions of art to Dadaism, Red Rose traces the degeneration of the concept of beauty.

https://meonjournal.com/read/how-the-world-turned-ugly-the-historical-demise-of-beauty-as-a-value
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"If Sinn Féin hold out until a left alliance is possible with them in the lead, their solidification as Ireland’s premier party will be secure"

Cennétig: Ireland's duopoly was threatened by Clann na Poblachta - will Sinn Féin succeed where they failed?

https://meonjournal.com/read/clann-na-poblachta
"The most controversial thing though was my statement that John Mitchel was not part of the Irish nation. A masculine man, a man who suffered for Ireland, but not Irish"

Contra Republicanism, An Deoraí makes the case for a Gaelic conception of Irishness.

https://meonjournal.com/read/an-ghaelstat-a-defence-of-gaelic-nationalism
"They did not go out on that April morning hoping to return, they knew that was not their fate."

In his debut for MEON, Pádraig examines the parallels between the sacrifices of the men of 1916 and Japanese Kamikaze pilots during WW2.

https://meonjournal.com/read/1916-kamikaze
"Politically correct slander is a weapon of suppression, a method of stifling dissent... narrative control becomes especially central when what is taking place is clearly deranged.

Denying reality has costs - Ciarán O'Regan on the effects of liberalism

https://meonjournal.com/read/an-irish-girls-plea-for-a-safer-hometown
"Trump Obsession Disorder is not just a mental disorder that can be contracted by those that hate Trump it can also be contracted by those that love him."

Cennétig on Irish people's obsession with Trump - symptomatic of an East-Yank mindset?

https://meonjournal.com/read/trump-obsession-disorder
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"Slovakia is less a sovereign nation than a clientelist machine, wrapped in flags and icons."

Right wing constitutional reform in Slovakia?

Pierce Ferriter argues that Slovakia’s culture war masks oligarchy, crisis, and a nation in slow decline.

Interested in the revival of Irish intellectual life?

Write for MEON:
meonjournal@mailfence.com

https://meonjournal.com/read/oligarchs-culture-war
"Perhaps we could all take from his example, and embark on our own journeys of discovery, in rewilding our minds in favour of that which is most rooted, embedded and authentic to our own being-in-the-world."

Creeve Rua on the legacy of Manchán Magan.

https://meonjournal.com/read/in-ms-a-brief-guide-to-the-work-of-manchn-magan
"Shall thy martyred priests' and patriots' blood make fertile fields for thee?

Keep thy memories fair and fragrant.

And thy valour’s ancient glory,

Folded now in song and story

Long will bloom in liberty."


A poem of peace and patriotism by Canon Sheehan.

https://meonjournal.com/read/ode-triumphal-canon-sheeh
"By Connolly’s definition, we are under siege — mass migration serves the capitalist and political classes."

"National and Labour movements are nothing without each other."


Dawning on Connolly, Stephen J. Delaney makes the case for Proletarian Nativism.

https://meonjournal.com/read/a-case-for-proletarian-nativism
"Rooney spoke as a prophet. He prepared the way and foresaw the victory, and he helped his nation to rise and, by developing its soul, to get ready for victory."

He longed for an Ireland equal among the nations.

Arthur Griffith on William Rooney.

https://meonjournal.com/read/arthur-griffith-on-the-significance-and-vision-of-william-rooney
"Has the introduction of the television into Irish society done more harm than good?"

ATOMISATION, IRRELIGION, AND CRIME.

Drawing on Robert Putnam's seminal book Bowling Alone, Cennétig explores the deleterious effects of television on the 20th century.

https://meonjournal.com/read/the-damaging-effect-that-the-television-has-had-on-social-life
"Be careful lest you devote yourself to a movement that is, in actuality, a psychologist’s scheme."

Howard Woods takes aim at the subject of populist politics, the masses, arguing that it represents a false hope with a history of being manipulated.

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https://meonjournal.com/read/the-death-of-charlie-kirk-and-its-political-implications
"And think of the day that’s coming fast,
When we shall all be lobotomized,
Tongues clipped, arms chipped, and sanitized,
And the end of this nation realized."

Jack Napes latest is an updated version of Peadar Kearney's "God Bless England" for the modern age.

https://meonjournal.com/read/god-bless-england
"Home Secretary Herbert Samuel described the violence as unacceptable and 'weaponising.. by people who wish to sow dissent in our society'"

FINGLAS BUGLE - Finglas' Paper Of Record - on recent unrest and disarray on the streets of Dublin.

https://meonjournal.com/read/finglas-bugle-1