Present State

DISCOURSES ON AN OCCUPATION
or,
A View on the Present State of Ireland
& the World:
being
LETTERS FROM MACDARA
to Whomever may Chuse to Read

Free Seats: On the Recent Election of the Thirty-Fourth Dáil III-IV

Dec 21
Free Seats: On the Recent Election of the Thirty-Fourth Dáil I-II

Dec 14
A Country for Old Men: On the US Election III

Dec 2
A Country for Old Men: On the US Election II

Dec 1
A Country for Old Men: On the US Election

Nov 30
“History is a Nightmare”…Let Us Dream of the Future III

Nov 16
“History is a Nightmare”…Let Us Dream of the Future II

Nov 10
“History is a Nightmare”…Let Us Dream of the Future

Nov 9
Tilting at Titles, Or Who’s Afraid of Herta Müller?

Nov 2
Anne Carson, Spectator Amongst Spectres

Oct 26
Anne Carson, Knower of Words

Oct 20
Language, Loyalty, Betrayal: More Imperialism, Please!

Oct 13
Missing, Inaction: The Liberal Right, Genocide and the Politics of Feelings III

Oct 6
Missing, Inaction: The Liberal Right, Genocide and the Politics of Feelings II

Oct 5
Missing, Inaction: The Liberal Right, Genocide and the Politics of Feelings

Oct 4
“A Radiating Cultic Stillness” and Cheering in the Opera House: How to Write about (Imperialist) Art if you are an Imperialist

Sep 24
Settling for Less: On the Incomplete Status of Colonists / Forgetting

Sep 15
Settling for Less: On the Incomplete Status of Colonists / Unknowing

Sep 14
Settling for Less: On the Incomplete Status of Colonists / Becoming

Sep 13
Settling for Less: On the Incomplete Status of Colonists / Haunting

Sep 12
Macdara’s 115th Nightmare, or Love in the Time of Calamity

Sep 7
Fake Expectations: On the Question of Freedom for the Nationalities IV-V

Aug 26
Fake Expectations: On the Question of Freedom for the Nationalities I-III

Aug 25
Moments in the Metropole, or Categorise and Conquer!

Aug 17
Garrulous Oratory at the Gallarus Oratory: How to Write about History

Aug 12
Notes for a Return to the Native Land

Aug 6
On Violence: Current, Historic, Real and Phantastical VI-VII

Jul 28
On Violence: Current, Historic, Real and Phantastical III-V

Jul 23
On Violence: Current, Historic, Real and Phantastical I-II

Jul 21
Towards a New Israel!

Jul 12
Morning and Melancholia, or Is England Ready for Democracy?

Jul 7
Experiment and Error: The Case of Verdi

Jun 28
Being Beauteous: Brahms, Madness, Bach

Jun 16
Complicity and Congratulation: Free Palestine!

May 26
“Unmatched Fulgurance, Vengerous Desires”: How to Write about Opera

May 16
Shooting and Laughing: How they Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Genocide

Apr 27
“This is Ireland, Speak English”

Apr 20
Natives In a Strange Land, or Remember Muiceanach Idir Dhá Sháile!

Apr 13
Musical Chairs: On Current Developments in Both Parts of Ireland

Apr 6
John Bull’s Only Island, or Labouring No Point III-IV

Mar 24
John Bull’s Only Island, or Labouring No Point I-II

Mar 23
At Work She’s on Holiday: Introducing Claire Hanna

Mar 16
Catherine Martin’s Family Business, or Greener Pastures Await!

Mar 9
Up in Smoke: On Micheál Martin

Feb 29
Offshore Interests, or Simon Says…

Feb 24
Undead Kennedy, being Letters to Roanoke

Feb 17
Leo Actually

Feb 13
Green, White, Orange, Black and Brown

Feb 9
O Protect Us from Our Protectors!

Feb 1
An Immovable Feast, or Don’t Look Up!

Jan 27
Who Here are Strangers to Whom?

Jan 22
Stuck Between Minorities: Addition, Division, Subtraction in the Colony

Jan 17
Pretty Thick: On Genocidal Gestures

Jan 13
Six and Four and Seven Come to Nothing

Jan 7
“A Salutary Example”, or An Invitation to New Mutiny

Jan 6
Numbers, Names and Northerners: The Irish Times Guide to Partying with Partionists!

Jan 1
On the Present State: Europe, Communism, the Planet

Dec 28
Outcasting Our Ballots: Irish Exceptionalism Continues

Dec 23
Imperialism Assessed, or Weighting for the Republic

Dec 19
Terms of Settlement

Dec 17
Yield Way to the Right

Dec 16
Fragments from an Analysis of a Case of Colonisation VII-IX

Dec 13
Fragments from an Analysis of a Case of Colonisation IV-VI

Dec 10
Fragments from an Analysis of a Case of Colonisation I-III

Dec 7
…One Hundred Years of Sorcery

Dec 4
Doublecrossing, or One Hundred Years of Sophistry

Dec 3