‘None of the Irish leaders understood the northern situation or the northern mind.’ (Cahir Healy, Irish nationalist born in Ulster, quoted on this book’s last page)) This ought to be a great book – a long, scholarly, up-to-date and immensely detailed description of the social, economic and cultural reasons why Ireland was partitioned. All the […]
The Partition: Ireland Divided 1885 to 1925 by Charles Townshend (2021)
The Partition: Ireland Divided 1885 to 1925 by Charles Townshend (2021)
23 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: Ireland
Sinn Fein’s Links to PLO, Hamas, ETA and of course, IRA and Other Terrorist Organisations
21 Oct 2025 1 Comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: Ireland, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror

I have to set this out at the start of this post. None of this has been investigated by me, it has all been done by other journalists. However all of this has been verified by me. All the relevant links are included in the post. It is also noteworthy to mention that I don’t […]
Sinn Fein’s Links to PLO, Hamas, ETA and of course, IRA and Other Terrorist Organisations
Ireland: Good Corporate Tax Policy vs. Bad Government Spending Policy
11 Feb 2025 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, public economics Tags: Ireland, taxation and investment

I’m a big fan of Ireland’s low corporate tax rate for three reasons. First, it shows that good tax policy generates positive economic outcomes as per-capita GDP in Ireland has grown by record amounts. Second, it shows that lower tax rates can in some cases lead to more revenue. Sort of a turbo-charged version of […]
Ireland: Good Corporate Tax Policy vs. Bad Government Spending Policy
Why Britain Lost The Irish War of Independence (4K Documentary)
02 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: Ireland
The Irish reject a “Woke” constitutional change
10 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics Tags: Ireland
Ireland’s effort to remove old-fashioned family values from its constitution suffered a double defeat Saturday as voters rejected the amendments on offer as maddeningly vague and threatening to property rights… In final results announced Saturday night, the amendment to change the constitutional definition of family was rejected by 67.7 percent of voters. The proposed changes […]
The Irish reject a “Woke” constitutional change
Corporate Taxation, Ireland, and Jealousy
24 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic growth, economic history, macroeconomics, public economics Tags: Ireland, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment

Two months ago, I wrote about a remarkable example of the Laffer Curve, involving Ireland’s low 12.5 percent corporate tax rate. According to the New York Times, Ireland was collecting so much corporate tax revenue that the government was having a hard time figuring out what to do with all the money (as you might […]
Corporate Taxation, Ireland, and Jealousy
Sinn Fein’s links to PLO,Hamas,ETA and of course IRA and other terrorist organisations.
31 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Ireland, Middle-East politics, war against terror

I have to set this out at the start of this post. None of this has been investigated by me, it has all been done by other journalists. However all of this has been verified by me. All the relevant links are included in the post. It is also noteworthy to mention that I don’t […]
Sinn Fein’s links to PLO,Hamas,ETA and of course IRA and other terrorist organisations.
Why the IRA Lost The Irish Civil War 1922-1923
19 Sep 2022 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Ireland, World War I
A Peace Treaty That Sparked A Civil War – The Anglo-Irish Treaty I THE GREAT WAR 1921
28 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, international economics, law and economics, laws of war, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Ireland, World War I
Why didn’t Ireland Fight in World War 2?
23 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Ireland, World War II
Why didn’t Rome Conquer Ireland?
27 May 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history Tags: Ireland, Roman empire
Ireland in the Second World War
13 Jan 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Ireland, World War II
Bloody Sunday – Escalation in the Irish War of Independence I THE GREAT WAR 1920
30 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Ireland, World War I
Ireland in the Second World War
24 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Ireland, World War II
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