The Border
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It is the great hope of this nearly hopeless citizen that Reunification will provide an opportunity not to shore up privilege in our country but to break it down. A loud and troublesome bloc of settler colonists sitting in Dáil Éireann is anathema to the Partionist Party of the current twenty-six county State. This is…
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Your correspondent hesitates to comment on current events, preferring to write by the candlelight of Retrospect. Nevertheless recent developments in both parts of the country seem to require better commentary than Macdara has seen from the zombie media, so here are his thoughts. Of the permanent Partionist Party in the twenty-six county state, three wings…
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Irish gives us a word, a tricky conjuring thing, to use for this difficult order of phenomenon: the thing that exists only in belief, in play, but for that reason can be said to exist, with all the consequences that follow. Let us use the word: geis. Taboo, prohibition, injunction, spell, vow, curse. It binds, it breaks; forces,…
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If you have heard of the Border, then you must know that there is no Border. People who believe in the Border believe in something that they know does not exist. Those who believe in the Border have been allowed to indulge in a fancy with grotesque consequences for what we might loosely call the real…