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Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason – E20 – The Questionable Majesty of Queenship

Paul April 15, 2021
The funny thing about queenship throughout history is that it was normally seen as a perversion of the perceived order, an unjust inheritance as it were, by most men you’d care to ask, especially those in power. Primogeniture was the main vehicle…
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Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason – E19 – Medieval mindset is the mother of all misogyny

Paul April 14, 2021
Misogyny is one of the most constantly repeated mistakes in history, a mistake made by generations of men who abused their positions of power. Even to this day in countries across the globe, many conveniently employ the lame excuses of ‘culture’ and…
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Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason – E18 – Language & Literature

Paul April 14, 2021
As the mechanics of writing, papermaking, and printing made the written word in the shape of ideas, stories, doctrines, beliefs and theories more widely available, that method of providing information to the growing masses of the literate was harnessed by those religious…
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Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason – E17 – Can you separate a work of literature from the political beliefs of the author?

Paul March 10, 2021
Can you separate a work of literature from the political beliefs of the author? The question relates to three of our most notable Irish authors – Flann O’Brien, William Butler Yeats and George Bernard Shaw. You know what I mean; you love…
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Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason – E16 – The unsustainability of unaccountability

Paul March 3, 2021
The first verse of September 1913 by William Butler Yeats, accurately paints a picture of a country where greed and double standards could co-exist quite comfortably with mindless adherence to religious rules. For over two hundred years, one pervasive organization in Ireland was…
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Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason – E15 -The Karenina Principle in Ireland’s Insurrections

Paul February 23, 2021
According to Tolstoy’s Karenina principle, the failure of one component results in the failure of the entire exercise. The failure to coordinate overseas military aid and nationwide support for the 1798 and 1916 rebellions is possibly a working example. An earlier discussion…
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Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason – E14 – The unworkable solution of the workhouse

Paul February 23, 2021
There is no doubt about it, the workhouse, whose structure was a blot on the Irish landscape, was the most feared and hated institution in the terrified imaginations of the Irish poor. They would do anything to avoid submitting to that hellish…
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Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason – E13 – Neo-liberalism, laissez faire and the Great Irish Famine

Paul February 8, 2021
In The Wealth of Nations (1776), Adam Smith argued that markets are governed by an ‘invisible hand’ and thus should be subject to minimal government interference, to allow said free markets to facilitate sustained economic growth. Letting the free market be king,…
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The Hugh Lane Concert series – Xenia Pestova and Ed Bennett

Paul February 3, 2021
The sixth and final programme in the third series, features Xenia Pestova and Ed Bennett playing a programme of piano and electronic arrangements by Leo Chadburn, Annea Lockwood, Ed Bennett, Gayle Young and Alvin Lucier. This radio programme features concert excerpts interspersed…
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Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason – E12 – Plantations and Penal Laws leave a shadowy legacy

Paul February 1, 2021
Sometimes it takes centuries; sometimes it takes decades, but invariably, the legacy of colonialism lingers for too long after its demise; and this we see in the border that separates the six counties of Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland. The…
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Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason – E11 – The Os Have it

Paul January 25, 2021
On September 14th, 1607 Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O’Donnell, Earl of Tyrconnell left Ireland’s shores for good. The event is commonly known as The Flight of the Earls and those who took part in the flight became known as…
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Oldfilibuster’s Rhyme & Reason – E10 – Itchy Feet

Paul January 20, 2021
Itchy Feet There is no doubting that Ireland was overrun by two gangs of ‘gurriers’; the Vikings, starting in 795, and the Normans in 1169. While one gang faded into the fabric of Irish society rather than conquering us, the other gang ignited…
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