The Border
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And what of the page called Designation? It starts off: On the first day the Assembly meets after an election, MLAs sign the Register and designate themselves as ‘nationalist’ or ‘unionist’. This is to facilitate cross-community voting on certain key decisions […] Such decisions must be supported by a certain percentage of MLAs from both…
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The Occupied Ireland Assembly has as its chief goal its own continuance. It has developed a strange website to teach young people of various ages about the colonial administration. The pages for children and young people from primary school up to age 15 are all about how a law is made, who are your colonial…
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It is well known that the London media betrayed an extraordinary confusion when a Conservative government relied on the support of DUP MPs for its majority. Each publication carried short explainers, so that readers might understand how it is that there are Irish MPs when Irish people have been so keen for so long to…
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I The reader will notice a relentless affectation on the part of the present writer: referring to the settler colonisation of Ireland. Now there is no secret to the fact that such a phenomenon took place. The settlers themselves know it, the natives know it, though the word Plantation is preferred. Making use of an…
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Macdara has lately been struck by a softening of the aggressive neo-unionism of the Irish Times. On a recent podcast (which he had avoided listening to for a month), he kept on expecting some of the standard inanities or insanities of the Partionist mindset to surface. In fact, it was all quite reasonable, even with…
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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…