"Death to the world, and the world’s idle praise,
The faithless saw his faith with evil eyes,
They doom’d him without stain, and here he dies."
Thomas D'Arcy McGee's poetic tribute to St. Oliver Plunkett's martyrdom.
"An Garda Síochána are being used as a battering ram to force through a reckless immigration policy to the detriment of the local populace."
@quarrelsomelife
's analysis of the asylum crisis that threatens to destroy Ireland and its political status quo.
"Irish people have an incredibly stable genetic makeup that goes back not just to the Roman Empire... but back to to the times of ancient Egypt"
MEON has uploaded a partial transcript of
@uberboyo
's response to John McGuirk's critique of Ethnonationalism
"What happens when the music stops for the rules based global order Ireland has piggybacked on?"
In his debut for MEON, Thomas O'Reilly (
@TOR_EuroCon
) questions whether the Irish Elite have the wherewithal to tackle the looming Post-Liberal epoch.
"Every Friday from now on, I will be publishing my own translations of previously untranslated works of Gaelic intellectual thought"
Creeve Rua outlines the aim of Meon Gaelach, a project dedicated to the revival of Irish intellectual life.
Many will have seen a viral photo of an elderly gentleman at yesterday’s demonstration in Dublin. He’s an 80-year-old from Mayo who travelled to Dublin alone for the protest. He’s an inspiration. Listening to him speak does the soul good.
👇👇👇
"Immigrants have been recorded as leaning toward a pro-British position on a United Ireland when polled. Why would they care for a centuries old blood-feud?"
In his debut for MEON,
@lethal_ria
casts a critical eye on contemporary Irish Republicanism.
"I mean precisely that eternal 'meat', that great rabble of the people ordinarily designated by Marx and Engels in the picturesque and contemptuous phrase Lumpenproletariat. I have in mind the riffraff, that rabble almost unpolluted by bourgeois civilization." - Mikhail Bakunin
"By preserving Gaeilge, we preserve a unique perspective on the world, a perspective that is rooted in the landscapes and traditions of Ireland."
John Mac Ghlionn (
@ghlionn
) calls the Irish to preserve our language - a reservoir of collective tradition.
"These lineages are living historical records, testaments to ancient conquests, bloodshed, war, to victors and the vanquished."
In his debut article for MEON, Aire explores the origins of the Irish race and the genetic makeup of modern Irish people.
"Desmond Fennell was Ireland's finest modern intellectual. Luckily for dissidents, his body of work also lays out the essential intellectual project of modern Irish Nationalism."
A comprehensive introduction to Desmond Fennell's works by Creeve Rua.
"We are an island, off an island, off the edge of Europe. We have never faced immigration issues on this scale before"
MEON is proud to present an interview with Nick Delehanty, an independent running in the South East Inner City for the local elections.
@MattTreacy111
Reversing the erasure of our nation requires an understanding of what Irish nationality means - ergo, the broader question what a nation is, and the attendant question of what it means to be a member of it, must be tackled and considered by Irish nationalists.
"[I]s there more than that one person among all the elected representatives of the country who will stand and speak against the replanting of the ‘Republic’?"
Seán South on the New Plantation of Ireland.
Part of Creeve Rua's Meon Gaelach series.
"Their plan was to conquer Canada, force the British Empire to the negotiating table and proceed to trade Canada for a free Ireland."
In his debut for
@meonjournal
, Jerry Mellerick provides an account of Fenian raids into Canada between 1866 to 1871.
"It is paramount that the cause of Ireland is fully independent from the corrosive influence of British subversion"
Recounting the many episodes of British subversion of Ireland, Creeve Rua calls on Irish Nationalists to be wary of Perfidious Albion.
"Feeney established a tradition of cinematic poetry, steeped in Irish race-memory, which his ancestral homeland ought to have embraced"
First of a 3 part essay by Martin Maher on the films of John Martin Feeney (John Ford), an auteur of dispossession.
"Clergy and laymen alike fought and died together to see Ireland take her rightful place in the nations of the World."
Jerry Mellerick on the historical intersection between Irish Nationalism and the Catholic Faith.
"It became an unchanging tenet of British policy to seduce as well as subdue: to destroy all sense of historical existence."
Creeve Rua explicates the philosophy undergirding the GAA, and calls for the revival of the Tailteann Games.
MEON has reached 1,000 followers on X.
We want to express our gratitude to all those who've contributed, and particularly our stalwart graphic designer:
@Aire_Images
.
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"For them, saving our native identity was an existential matter because without our ethnos... there would be no ‘Ireland’ worth contributing to."
Creeve Rua's essay for MEON is on Desmond Fennell's attempt in the 1960s to initiate a Gaelic Revolution.
"What is the germ of it all? The criminal carelessness of every class in Ireland to the real interests of the nation."
MEON has re-published William Rooney's clarion call for the Irish to resist anglicisation.
"Comparison with English-driven Plantations reveals that the government’s asylum policy qualifies as a Plantation."
Via an assiduous analysis of the plantations,
@Stamos121
arrives at the disturbing conclusion that we are undergoing a new plantation.
Fr. John Murphy spent the 1790s towing the west-brit line of Bishop Caulfield; refused to give sacraments to United Irishmen, advocated Catholics to give up their weapons.
Yet he went on to lead them at Vinegar Hill.
Those who acquiesce today may be the leaders of tomorrow.
#OnThisDay
1798 Fr. John Murphy, the leader of the Wexford rebels, was stripped, flogged, hanged, decapitated, his corpse burnt in a barrel of tar & his head impaled on a spike. This was meant to be a warning to all others who fought against the British Crown.
#Ireland
#History
"For the native Irish, the near-total destruction of the woodland saw devastation wreaked not only on the ecology and native wildlife, but the annihilation of one of the last organised bands of resistance against English colonisation."
"But your name will be a shimmering idol in the hearts of every child,
And your story will be narrated in tasteful Gaelic."
As part of his Meon Gaelach series, Creeve Rua has translated Máirtín Ó Direáin’s poetic elegy for Pádraig Pearse.
"A culchie with eyes drunk on violence descends the escalator…"
MEON presents its new series: Fragments
Part 1 weighs up whether meth or the English language is more malignant and outlines the Republican tradition of Dan Breen, Ceaușescu, and Idi Amin
"If James Connolly wanted the earth, Viktor Orbán’s aims are more modest - eclipsing Brussels' insidious influence will suffice."
Our Editor reflects on what Irish Nationalists must learn from
#CPACHungary2024
.
Professionalisation is key.
Irish thought, from the late 20th century to the present day, is sophomoric; amid an enervated intellectual culture, Desmond Fennell was a beacon of acuity.
The revival of interest in Fennell is a healthy development.
A piece we published on Fennell:
Some colleagues and I are organising a half-day seminar in Dublin on Friday, 14 June to explore the work of Irish writer and philosopher Desmond Fennell who died some 3 years ago. Details/Register here:
@PangurBan869
@_PeterRyan
@TOR_EuroCon
@tbald101
"It has become typical of the liberal mind, however, to show disdain and disrespect to the Faith of their ancestors; a Faith many generations risked life and limb for."
@Lanklet_Dev
on Fr. Patrick Ryan, the Priest who revolutionised IRA bombmaking.
"The family is the nucleus from which nations grow and sustain themselves. If Ireland is to survive, we must be committed to its protection"
Reflecting on Friday's Referenda,
@francisobeirne
makes the case for the traditional family unit.
#VoteNoNoRef24
"MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born."
As part of our weekly poetry series, we have decided to re-publish W.B. Yeats' 'Easter, 1916'.
"If Ireland acquiesces to Britain’s security posture, we’ll all end up in the same prison cells together."
Aodhan Ó Cathasaigh on worrying anti-Irish tendencies in Anglo-Irish relations.
"Our use of language is crucial for ensuring that our political and cultural struggle succeed. We must not forget that language is power."
Drawing on Gramsci, Markus Johansson-Martis argues that language shapes and distorts our view of political reality.
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"So we can reproduce but cannot produce, imitate but not create, and this can only be a bad sign for the health of current Western culture."
@Stamos121
on the the pervasiveness of nostalgia as a reflection of Western cultural sterility.
"Ireland’s natural security and economic interests lie in its vast territorial seas. The neglect of these vital interests in previous decades has been a catastrophic strategic blunder for the state"
@RyanKiersey
on the history of Irish naval exploits.
"He rejoices with quick leaps
When in his sharp claw sticks a mouse:
I too rejoice when I have grasped
A problem difficult and dearly loved."
As part of MEON's weekly poetry series, we have re-published the 9th century Irish poem Pangur Bán.
"Looking at Fine Gael across its near century-old existence... what remains consistent is their representation of... the property and business-owning class."
@SumirMAB
rebukes the notion that Fine Gael will reform; business and property are their credo.
"Ireland hasn’t been the same since the Dublin riots.
All has changed, changed utterly since that fateful night.
But has a terrible beauty been born?"
Hubert O'Neill makes the case for a multi-faceted conception of Irish Nationalism.
"God of heaven, bless our banner—nerve our sinews for the strife!
Fight we now for all that's holy—for our altars, land and life"
As part of MEON's weekly poetry series, we have re-published Brian Boru's Speech at Clontarf by William Kenealy.
One of the most promising candidates in the 2024 local elections - great to see him performing well.
We interviewed
@Nick_Delehanty
recently.
Check it out:
Bootstrapped guerrilla campaign from
@Nick_Delehanty
has overperformed resoundingly at 8% so far. He's still in with a shout of a seat.
We spoke to him about his next steps in politics, regardless of whether he gets over the line today
#MakeCrimeIllegal
"What has emerged in Ireland is an abased form Government and a debased society, incapable of producing great culture."
Drawing on Nietzsche, Charlie Kennedy argues that Democracy is not the best form of government.
"The rigid cultural bulwark of Japanese society is reminiscent of Irish-Ireland; a vision of revitalised Irish culture keeping at bay the influence of alien ideals."
@RyanKiersey
on the life and thought of Greco-Irish Folklorist, Lafcadio Hearn.
“In the 12th century, when Irish literature, art and commerce were at their height… an exquisite native variation of Romanesque architecture promised means at last for the impress of the Gaelic mind on matter”
Part 2 of a gaelic architectural history.
"The importance of Fennell.. is in providing an intellectual formulation of a populist ideology which stands the test of time"
Creeve Rua on Desmond Fennell's attempt to craft a populist ideology which complimented the Haugheyite revolt in Irish politics
"I often heard my father say that no man of the name of Mullen, Moloney or Staunton was allowed to join or take the oath of the White-boys."
Folklore Friday: an account of the surnames which were considered taboo by the Irish Whiteboys.
"The great irony of the progressive cultism of the Irish elites is that the newest ideas are adhered to in the oldest ways. The neoliberal ideology, born of a post-Fordist global information market, has its monopoly over our national mind..."
"The times has arrived for us to create a school of strategic thinking. What are Ireland’s interests, and how do we go about securing them?"
Naoise MacUis makes the case for developmentalism, in the domains of Energy, Economy, Data, and Defence.
"Fate has separated his people from all that could not sustain their happiness and their energy, from all that might confuse the soul..."
As part of our Folklore Friday series, we've chosen to publish 'The Great Blasket' by W.B. Yeats.
@FortressLugh
Have heard stories of people fostering a relationship of dependency with herons to the point that the latter become quasi-pets.
In a area near me, a heron was said to have dutifully crossed the road with a woman that regularly fed him.
"I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul’s desire."
In preparation for St. Patrick's day, MEON has chosen to re-publish Part 1 of St. Patrick's Confession.
"Nationalists lack the unified platform and resources necessary to capitalise on the general public’s hostility to mass immigration."
Reflecting on the 2024 Local and European elections, Seán McEilit argues that Irish Nationalism requires reform.
"This article serves the purpose of a much-needed reality check: to leave the EU would be a catastrophic geopolitical blunder"
Against Irexit,
@RyanKiersey
makes the case for Ireland staying within the European Union.
@john_mcguirk
@_PeterRyan
Many of the anti-semitic statements attributed to Griffith were actually written by Frank Hugh O'Donnell.
Griffith, despite holding tepid racialist views, considered black africans to be victims of European Colonialism.
Colum Kenny has convincingly demonstrated this in his bio.
"A day may come to witness an Irish Westminster, an Irish Pantheon, but it will not more reflect the hallowed memory of the dead than at present dwells in our hearts"
Arthur Griffith's 'Valhalla', a meditation on Ireland's Patriot Dead.
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'Do not go gentle into that good night' by Dylan Thomas.
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"There used to be great fights and feuds between parishes and baronies long ago, and Adamstown used to be a great place for that."
For Folklore Friday, MEON has decided to re-publish an account of Faction Fighting in Adamstown.
MEON has the honour of presenting perhaps the first translation of ‘The Exile of the Sons of Uisliu’ into Spanish from Old Irish.
Translation courtesy of
@Viejo_Jabali
.
"On nations fixed in right and truth,
God would bestow eternal youth."
Poetry series: MEON has re-published 'Nationality' by Thomas Davis. A celebration of Nationality as a Divinely sanctioned social form, intimately connected to Justice.
"It’s punctuality, musicality, the spirituality with which we once spoke
My mother’s tongue was cut from my throat"
Maisie McAllister explores femininity, the Irish language, and deracination in her poem - the first contemporary poem we've published.
"The earliest record of Irishmen in South America are Juan and Tomás Farrel, two brothers who were part of an expedition led by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Mendoza"
From Conquistadors to Easter Week,
@Stamos121
on the history of Irish Argentinians.
"There are rivers of blood between us... and if all the blood could be washed away... there would still be between us... the chasm created by two irreconcilable ideals.... Gaelicism and Anglo-Saxonism."
An Irish Nationalist critique of Internationalism.
MEON investigates the ways in which Dublin City tries to mislead and confound its denizens through lazy misnomers, transparent veneers, mispurposed institutions, and thinly veiled money-grubbing.
"Roche stepped out on the bohreen with a sword in his hand and said, 'I defy any two men single handed and no person will dare pass.'"
For Folklore Friday, we've uploaded 'A Sword Fighter' - an account of an act of Heroism during the Cromwellian invasion
"No more the waving cornfields shall be the Saxon’s spoil.
Our flag no longer drooping, each fold shall now reveal,
And wave for God and Erin and our darling Hugh O’Neill."
MEON has re-published 'The Triumph of Hugh O'Neill' by Roger Casement.
"O wise men, riddle me this: what if the dream come true?
What if the dream come true? and if millions unborn shall dwell
In the house that I shaped in my heart, the noble house of my thought?"
Pádraig Pearse's apology for idealism in his poem 'The Fool'
"Bambie Thug’s performance only indicates that she may be more comfortable in a psych ward than on international television"
@RyanKiersey
's critique of Bambie Thug and the Modern Eurovision.
“Through the literary distillation and communication of the inner-mind of the Irish nation, Gaelic literature is undoubtedly a resource of prime importance to the re-Gaelicisation of Ireland. “
“They have razed our proudest castles — spoiled the Temples of the Lord — Burned to dust the sacred relics — put the Peaceful to the sword — Desecrated all things holy— as they soon may do again, If their power today we smite not — if today we be not men!”
"He wasn't let into heaven and he wasn't let into hell, so he is now travelling around the world with his wisp of straw, and that is the person that we call "Will-o-the Wisp."
As part of our Folklore Friday series, we've republished 'Will-o-the-Wisp'.
"I have read in ancient annals of a race of gallant men
Who fear'd neither Dane nor devil; but it is long since then —
And "cowardice is virtue,'' so runs the modern creed"
'The Exile's Mediation' by Thomas D'Arcy McGee laments Irish diasporic life.
MEON is a new socio-environmental multimedia journal, made by and for the youth of Ireland. We seek to illuminate and re-envision the future relations between nature, man, and tech, all in devotion to the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.
"The dooms of men are in God's hidden hoard."
As part of MEON's weekly poetry series, we have re-published W.B. Yeats' 'Death of Cuchulain'.
In his analysis,
@Stamos121
explicates the anti-oedipal motif of the poem.
@john_mcguirk
@_PeterRyan
Many of the statements were falsely attributed to him posthumously.
Further, Griffith banned Frank Hugh O'Donnell from writing for the United Irishman.
“In a nation of damp cottages still watched over by an Anglo-Irish economic oligarchy out of Dublin such a scheme aimed to shatter notions that Ireland would remain merely a backwater to the modern world.”
"Every poet we honour has dedicated his genius to his country without gain... withholding of his gift when his nation was in dark and evil days."
MEON has republished George "AE" William Russell's admonishment of Rudyard Kipling for slandering Ireland.
"The Seanad is aptly regarded as a body which exists for runners-up from the general election and wind-bags from Trinity College and the NUI colleges."
Caoimhín Ó Maolchalann considers whether a Nationalist breakthrough in the Seanad is tenable.
“Europe, the continent that once held the world in its palms, now seems content to be a junior actor in American geopolitical endeavours.”
Drawing on the South-Tyrol affair, Ulick Fitzhugh argues that the Russo-Ukrainian war is not in Europe's interest.
"He Who is wrapped in purple robes,
With planets in His care,
Had pity on the least of things
Asleep upon a chair."
As part of MEON's weekly poetry series, we have re-published 'The Ballad of Father Gilligan' - a reverential depiction of Last Rites.
"By outlining a pragmatic path toward unity, this article aims to ameliorate the fragmentation that plagues Irish Nationalism."
Beyond empty rhetoric, Caoimhín Ó Maolchalann outlines a realistic proposal to achieve Nationalist unity.
"Feeney's films exalt in themes of tradition, family and community as no other American filmmaker ever has"
Martin Maher's series on Feeney's films.
Part 2 explores their ideological facet, analysing their relation to Irishness, the South, and Marxism
“Such evils, according to Maine, include an opposition to free trade... nationalism, and a hostility to vaccines, which Maine repeatedly mentions throughout the text – Maine would have been a quadruple vaxxed... had he lived to witness covid.”
"The EU, empowered to regulate very large online platforms by the DSA, threatens to stifle legitimate discourse and muzzle dissenting voices."
John Mac Ghlionn (
@ghlionn
) writes about the threat that the EU's Digital Services Act poses to Free Speech.
"Against tokenistic half-measures, let us prove to Fine Gael that the Irish are not a foolish people - vote for nationalists on June 7th!"
Ulick Fitzhugh (
@francisobeirne
) argues that liberal subversion underscores Fine Gael's shift to the Right.
"To lands where Faith's bright flag unfurled
By those who here have knelt
Shall give unto a newer world
The sceptre of the Celt."
Young Ireland's Denis Florence MacCarthy's poetic tribute to St. Patrick's role in enshrining the Faith in Ireland.
"Will European civilisation ‘go gentle into that good night’ or will we grit our teeth and face the music?"
Drawing on Balázs Orbán's 'Hussar Cut: The Hungarian Strategy for Connectivity',
@RyanKiersey
argues Hungary offers an example for small nations.
New piece of mine for Gript putting Irish and British elite hysteria about the "far right" in perspective.
I draw on terror related statistics from
@Fondapol
,
@Ayaan
&
@Ben_Scallan
And work on the "Censorship Industrial Complex" by
@shellenberger
and
@galexybrane
"The Belle Époque was the last point in time where all peoples of the world worshipped the customs and traditions of their ancestors"
@RyanKiersey
makes the case for the Belle Époque being the quintessence of European history.
"Gaelic chiefling in Ulster,
Whose blood with the Norseman's rotted in the rain on a heather hill:
These by the world's time were very recent
Forefathers of yours. And you are a maker of verses."
Robinson Jeffers' Poetic tribute to Ulster's Heroism.
"Only time will tell if Ireland’s vox populi, against massive establishment efforts, will continue to find its voice."
Ciarán O’Regan meditates on the future of Irish Populism and reports on
@MCC_Brussels
' 'Is Europe's Future Populist?' conference.