Jonathan Bull's Northern Irish TractsIn 1169, Norman knights of Henry II began the English conquest and colonization of Ireland. In 1969, eight hundred years later, a rising of Irish nationalists against what was left of it began in the six counties of Ulster. Twenty-nine years of civil war followed, between the Provisional Irish Republican Army and other Republican armed groups and the UK armed forces and Protestant militias. That war, one of many that have marked Irish resistance to English colonization, ended in 1998 with the Good Friday Agreement. Three years later, British prime minister, Anthony Blair, launched the UK on a new imperial enterprise, this time in Afghanistan and then in Iraq, to crush resistance to Israel and its protecting superpower, the USA. In these 'Northern Irish Tracts', Jonathan Bull (as in John Bull and as in bullshit) tears British policy in Ulster and in the Zionist-American enterprise to pieces. His weapon: savage indignation and satire, echoing his great exemplar, Jonathan Swift. "Outrageous " "Shatters the received political propaganda of the 'Free World.'" "Scorching critique of Britian's role in Northern Ireland and elsewhere." "Shocking - no holds barred." Cover illustration: PC Studios. 'Spring resurgent in Tir na nOg' (Homage to Jack B. Yeats). |
Contents
On the political and constitutional Principles underlying | 9 |
our Sovereignty in Northern Ireland Tract 2 On the Status of certain Irish Prisoners and on various Issues pertaining thereto | 15 |
In Praise of a great Englishman | 21 |
On the pernicious Uses to which our English Language is being put by certain Enemies of the Realm | 27 |
Some modest Proposals for the Treatment of certain Irish Prisoners | 29 |
On the finer Arts of War as practised by our great Nation with special Reference to recent Atrocities | 39 |
On a contentious Issue of our Times | 45 |
That we should take Heart from a recent Victory | 51 |
On our Devotion to Religion Tract 10 On certain Details of a recent Declaration Tract 11 On the Lessons of a recent War in the Balkans Tract 12 On ... | 83 |
In praise of a reformed Irishman Tract 15 On a final Solution | 97 |
On the Will and the | 103 |
Common terms and phrases
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