Justin Barrett addressing our event in Belfast. He discusses Brexit, the Unionist / Republican binary, and his vision for Irish unity. August, 2017
Photos from our recent National Party meeting in Belfast, August 2017. This meeting was addressed by Party President Justin Barrett and Deputy President James Reynolds. For more photos of this and previous events follow the National Party on Flickr.
There are some things so obviously related that though they exist or occur a thousand miles apart, or a thousand years apart, the relationship is obvious. Then there are things that exist or occur right beside each other at exactly the same time with, quite bizarrely, no causative relation to each other at all. And …
Much credit to Declan Lynch for his brilliantly funny take down of Liberal journalists in the Irish Independent, entitled “Journalism is rediscovering its soul in these dark days”. Written in a dry satirical tone it evokes the bitterness and self-righteousness we have all come to expect from the Fourth Estate. Mocking his own trade, Lynch …
“The awful thing about life is this: Everybody has their reasons” – Jean Renoir, The Rules of the Game The Black Hats and the White Hats On the 23rd of January 2017, an article by Emer O’ Toole appeared in the Irish Times. It was titled Make Ireland Great Again: ‘Our culture has been under threat since those dirty …
On the 18th April, 2017 the Irish Times published an article by Fintan O’ Toole, entitled “Brexit means Ireland must be the anti-England.” In common with his other musings on the subject, he refuses to view Brexit as in any way a legitimate act of rebellion. Instead he views it as something atavistic and …
On the 16th of April, 2017 the Irish Independent published an article by Dan O’Brien entitled “101 years after the Rising, nationalism is dead and gone.” The main argument in the article is that Ireland has become a post-nationalist society and that this will be a stumbling block for unification. The following is a brief …
An Easter Message from the President of the National Party In “From a Hermitage” Pádraig Pearse told the story of the feeble old woman, who in her youth had made bullets for the Fenians, and in later years never passed a British soldier without saying something bitter to him. On observing it for himself one …
Justin Barrett and James Reynolds address a Cork meeting of the National Party, February 2017 Photos from our Cork event in February 2017. For more follow us on Flickr. For video footage of this event visit our YouTube channel.