St. Patrick’s Day: wearing o’ the black
In a very real way, the celebration of St. Patrick is a celebration of cultural genocide.
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Castro and Miami’s Cuban community and what the hell was Ozzie Guillen thinking?
Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen recently lost his freakin’ mind. He told Time that I love Fidel Castro…I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that [SOB] is still there. Predictably, the world then stopped spinning on its axis. South Florida’s vocal Cuban exile community vowed to
Read moreTonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1499: Ireland outlaws blasphemy
On January 1 most of the world rolled forward into a new decade. The Catholic Republic of Ireland, meanwhile, rolled backward into a former century. Lawmakers in staunchly Catholic Ireland passed the law in July, but it came into force January 1. A person breaks the law by saying or publishing anything “grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters
Read moreWilliam Butler Yeats: the soul of the warrior
I recall once hearing in a lecture that the Easter Rising rebels were influenced by the poetry of William Butler Yeats, and that they perhaps even read his work amongst themselves during the seven days they occupied Dublin’s General Post Office in April 1916. I can’t find a source to verify that they were reading Yeats while awaiting slaughter, but
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