Hooked on History—But Fed on Lies The Irish have a peculiar weakness for historical myths. So many falsehoods are repeated uncritically in the media that…
Author: Eugene Jordan
Myth #1 The Lies That Lit the Fuse: How the Troubles Really Started
Who Started the Northern Irish Troubles? The Spark of 1966 The story that the IRA began the Troubles for freedom’s sake collapses under the facts:…
UK – Becomes a Democracy in 1973
In Northern Ireland, the British government introduced “one man, one vote” for local elections in April 1969, but it was fully implemented in time for…
Myth #1 The Lies That Lit the Fuse- Part II
Part II – Northern Irish Catholics inspired by the black civil rights movement in 1960s America. The Birth of the Civil Rights Movement in Northern…
False Flag Operations in UK
List of loyalist false flag operations at the start of the Troubles in the United Kingdom Date Group Responsible Attack Claimed Perpetrator at the…
Loyalist False Flag Operations
At the very start of the Northern Irish Troubles — roughly 1966 to the early 1970s — the UVF weren’t the only ones dabbling in…
List of Loyalist False Flag Operations – Start of the Troubles
Date Group Responsible Attack Claimed Perpetrator at the Time Later-Confirmed Truth Jun-66 UVF Murder of John Scullion (Catholic civilian) IRA internal feud UVF sectarian killing…
Myth #2 Irish Neutrality – Revisionist Bunk
Most so-called Irish history commentators aren’t engaged in revisionism—they’re engaged in outright fabrication. Revisionism once meant stripping away propaganda to arrive at a clearer, more…
Myth #3 Ireland Hates Women
The idea that post-independence Ireland was ruled over by a cabal of rosary-clutching misogynists is not just wrong—it’s historically illiterate. It is the sort of…
LIAM NEESON Nominated for Major TUAM Award
Liam Neeson, though raised a Catholic, proudly proclaims his admiration for Ballymena’s most celebrated sectarian mouthpiece—the thunderous bigot Reverend Ian Paisley. Paisley, whose fire-and-brimstone tirades…
