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"The first question is brutally simple as the AI rollout occurs: what Irish systems would break if Washington switched off a model overnight? AI is not just a chatbot function on a government website, but the architecture upon which our state may soon subsist." - Thomas O'Reilly https://meonjournal.com/read/anthropic-ai-ireland

"The presence of a relatively similar group has had the consequence of maintaining the British occupation of the six counties, one conjectures with horror regarding the rotten fruit that awaits us in an increasingly diverse Ireland" On recent atrocities. https://meonjournal.com/read/foreigner-fatigue

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"Advocacy of our culture takes place in many domains, and the visual space of national clothing, despite the efforts of Pearse, Ashe, Joyce, and O’Curry, has been underutilised." The Hanfu revival marks the return of traditional dress to China. Will we witness a similar sartorial revival in Ireland? Read the latest by Culture Crusade https://meonjournal.com/read/reclaiming-the-sartorial-soul-clothing-identity-and-revival-on-the-celtic-fringe

"The sacred is real. This is the point. It doesn’t come to order – it comes in its own way and time – but it can be tuned into, it can be aligned with, it can be invoked, and it can and will change the direction of culture and society. Even now. Even in this desecrated, disenchanted age. Especially now, in fact. The sacred calls to us out of the darkness, and in many respects it needs our participation as much as we need its presence. Modernity has made ourselves and the sacred star-crossed lovers, but we are still supposed to be together, building and creating, dancing and playing at the heart of the world God made. But we need first of all to relearn the arts we have lost – how to see, hear, think, and feel on a level that’s at once higher and deeper than the restricted range of consciousness that supposedly represents ‘real life.’ Contact will be remade from here." ~ John Fitzgerald

"Pearse was deeply versed in this Platonic, mythopoetic mode of thinking. When he invoked the mythical hero Cuchulain as a symbol of Irish resistance, he made that ancient Gaelic champion a dynamic, live-action reality again. Cuchulain stalked indeed ‘through the Post Office’ and gave an extra, mythic edge to what otherwise might just have been another routine political uprising" John Fitzgerald's analysis of Yeats' 'The Statues' touches on Pearse, mythic thinking, and logos. https://meonjournal.com/read/our-proper-dark-an-analysis-of-yeats-the-statues

Ireland owes a great debt to its patriot dead. Everything this country has achieved is due to the actions of her pious and nationally minded sons and daughters. From cleaning up the monto to our history of missionary work; from the language revival to our partial independence.

"It is time that those who propose to make Ireland Irish, declared open war upon those who are paid to make it English" "If the Gaelic Revival fails, Ireland has no more chance of taking her place among the nations than Oklahoma has. Ireland may get Home Rule which Oklahoma has now, we may achieve that national prosperity which Oklahoma already enjoys, wages may rise in Ireland even to the point which now prevails in the Woolly West, but an English-speaking Ireland or an English speaking Oklahoma is not and never will be a nation." On 28 April 1916, The O’Rahilly was shot by British forces. In his honour, MEON has re-published his essay ‘Can We Gaelicise Ireland’ https://meonjournal.com/read/gaelicise-ireland-orahilly

Regime Apparatchik baseball cards? Official Ireland meets ‘80s nostalgia. The latest by Jack Napes for MEON. https://meonjournal.com/read/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game

"MEON is proud to present a translation of Nichita Stănescu's many "Ars Poetica" pieces, reminiscing on the powers of the file across cultures and time, written as he neared the end of his own life." https://meonjournal.com/read/ars-poetica-le-nichita-stnescu

"MEON is proud to present a translation of Nichita Stănescu's many "Ars Poetica" pieces, reminiscing on the powers of the file across cultures and time, written as he neared the end of his own life." https://meonjournal.com/read/ars-poetica-le-nichita-stnescu

"Today, sterile Belgian social democracy plays the role of WASPs, with Moroccans taking the place of the Irish and Sicilians." Narco Gangs. Islamic Fundamentalism. A state no one believes in. Thomas O'Reilly on Modern Brussels. https://meonjournal.com/read/belgium-narco

"Visitors to both sites will be afforded the opportunity to contemplate the meaning and implications of the concept of utility and the ephemeral nature of, as we are sure you will agree, everything." A satire of mammonism by Jack Napes. https://meonjournal.com/read/gross-domestic-product

Filth in Flanders: ‘Ex Drummer’ mires the viewer in the underbelly of small town lumpenproletariat existence terrorised by a manipulative Mephistophelean intellectual. Was the bloodshed for the sake of whim or cosmic salvation? Ulick Fitzhugh for MEON. https://meonjournal.com/read/horror-of-ex-drummer

☘️☘️☘️ "This would be a work tackling the proper Catholic role in warning against, and regulating, the expansion of destructive technologies, with runaway AI as the main antagonist." Creeve Rua on Ireland’s imprint on a papacy facing the machine age. https://meonjournal.com/read/irish-to-the-core

"The discerning among the readership, those accustomed to thinking holistically, may have discerned the intimate interconnection between fear, identity as commodity, saturated fats (putatively central to our national character), and the spectre of the IRISH MAMMY. Our Donny, longs for the warm embrace of the antenatal; the security of the womb. Perfect fodder for Freud; if the Hannibal of Vienna were still with us, he’d amend his famous adage about the Irish. A most primeval, yet pertinent fetish. I’m not saying that Donny wants to sleep with his mother, but…" What is Affirmative Action Irishness, and how does it benefit the regime? Check out the latest MEON article to find out: https://meonjournal.com/read/irishness-as-affirmative-action

"This ethnic denial of the Ulster-Brit is widespread throughout the history of the national movement. Only a few nationally minded thinkers like Desmond Fennel accept the reality of the Ulster-Brit" Cennétig on the history and identity of the Ulster-Brit. https://meonjournal.com/read/ulster-brit