Údar (Author) Leabhair (Books) Fevre Dream Foundation Series Perdido Street Station Saga of the

Údar (Author) Leabhair (Books) Fevre Dream Foundation Series Perdido Street Station Saga of the Exiles Stations of the Tide Steel Beach Take Back Plenty The Culture Cycle The Lyonesse Trilogy The Morgaine Saga The Night s Dawn Trilogy The Prefect The Royal Changeling The Uplift Series Weaveworld World of Tiers A Fire Upon the Deep In Tolkien s Shadow J.R.R Tolkien And Ireland Greannáin (Comics) Nemesis The Warlock Sláine The Ballad of Halo Jones The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Rick Random Space Detective Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future: Voyage to Venus Part 1 Scannáin (Movies) Avatar Barbarella Dune Excalibur Flash Gordon Flight of the Navigator Forbidden Planet Hawk the Slayer Labyrinth Lifeforce Logan s Run Outland The Andromeda Strain The Black Cauldron The Explorers The Last Starfighter The Lord of The Rings (1978) The Philadelphia Experiment War of the Worlds Warlords of Atlantis Silent Running limbo The Black Hole Brazil Doc Savage, limbo The Man of Bronze Knightriders Teilifís (Television) 3rd Rock from the Sun Automan Battle of The Planets Dungeons And Dragons Salvage 1 Sapphire and Steel Space 1999 The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. The Tripods The Water Margin Blake s 7 Blue Thunder and Airwolf Due South Nightmare Cafe Wizards and Warriors Seanchas (Mythology) Tuatha Dé Danann Na Fomhóraigh Lucharacháin An Sí Na Fathaigh Na Bocánaigh, limbo Na Bánánaigh Na Púcaí Na Péisteanna Na Murúcha Na Fianna Fionn And Dearg Corra Seanchas Agus Litríocht Na nGael An Gal Gréine Ealaín (Art) Seaghán Mac Cathmhaoil Bruce Pennington Frank Frazetta limbo Chris Achilléos Ian Miller Colin Wilson Peter Andrew Jones Stair (History) The Fall of Dublin A Dark Day on the Blaskets Repeal and Revolution: 1848 In Ireland Dan Breen and the IRA Spies, Informers and the Anti-Sinn Fein Society : The Intelligence limbo War in Cork City, 1919-1921 The I.R.A. and its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork, 1916-1923 The Impact of the 1916 Rising: Among the Nations The IRB: The Irish Republican Brotherhood, from the Land League to Sinn Féin The Irish War of Independence limbo The Life and After-life of P.H. Pearse: Pádraig Mac Piarais: Saol agus Oidhreacht Wolfe Tone: Prophet of Irish Independence The Year of Disappearances: Political Killings in Cork, 1920-1921 Poblachtach (Republican) Declaration of the United Irishmen, 1791 The Proclamation of Independence, 1803 Proclamation Of The Irish Republic, 1867 Proclamation Of The Irish Republic, 1916 Forógra na Poblachta, 1916 limbo Sinn Féin Manifesto, 1918 Declaration Of Independence, 1919 Forógra Neamhspleáchais, 1919 Message To The Free Nations Of The World, 1919 The Democratic Programme, 1919 limbo Téarmaíocht (Terminology) An Cogadh Fada (The Long War) Cuartú:
Poor old Kevin Myers is at it again: propagating his race theory of Irish politics (and society) thanks to the platform provided to him by his acolytes in the Independent group of newspapers. limbo His latest attempt to whip up some ethnic tensions centres on an old and cherished theme of his: that Fine Gael, Ireland s centre right conservative party, is made up of people ethnically different from those of other political parties. In Myers peculiar world view the right sort of folk are those in Ireland he believes limbo to be descended from British settlers, in particular limbo the medieval Norman-British who came here in the 12 th and 13 th centuries. These men and women he argues can be identified through their surnames, even after several hundred years of their ancestors living here, and are quiet distinct in temperament and intelligence from the native Gaels .
By Gaels Myers of course means the Native Irish but he cannot bring himself to use those two words together (and horror of horrors capitalized! ). He believes that Gael is not the same as Irish (no matter what the history books or dictionaries may say). No. Gaels are another thing altogether. A separate people, race, lingering on in Ireland limbo and quiet distinct from the broad swath of people who call themselves Irish today. They , the monolingual English speaking, reading, writing ( thinking limbo ) men and women of the island of Ireland are now the true Irish (including those like yourself born and raised in England, hey, Kevin, me ol darlin ?). The Gaels on the other hand are those who speak the Gaelic language (a dead language that no one speaks, dontcha know), and who adhere to Gaelic culture and a Gaelic identity. They are the people of the GAA, of Celtic myth, of nationalist violence, of Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin, Óglaigh na hÉireann, of 1916 and 1919. They are a poisonous vein in the body politic, an unwelcome reminder of Ireland s primitive pre-English, pre-British past. Or so he likes to think.
Fine Gael really doesn t know what it is, or what it wants. It largely accepts the gospel