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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tiger" data-source="post: 123218" data-attributes="member: 353">Skippy, it’s astonishing (or maybe not that astonishing) how your interpretation of my reference to Thomas Clarke manages to miss the point entirely, revealing not just ignorance but an apparent inability to comprehend what’s being discussed. The mention of Clarke wasn’t an appeal to resurrect his precise methods or transplant 1916 nationalism wholesale into 2024. It was a starting point, a reference to provide James—a self-proclaimed 'ethno-nationalist'—with a foundation to explain his vision in concrete terms. It could have been Kermit the Frog or Bobby Sands; the choice of Clarke was simply to prompt answers from James, who seems curiously incapable of articulating what his so-called nationalism entails and seems to need other people to try and answer on his behalf, however badly their attempt. James' reluctance raises some real questions. James is half English, so is his 'ethno-nationalism' Anglo-Irish in nature? How does it differ from Unionism, beyond vague rhetoric? And why does he rely so heavily on a hillbilly from the outback to fight his battles for him? Perhaps his affinity for certain online English nationalists explains his reticence to engage with the Irish nationalist tradition on its own terms.As for the argument that Clarke is irrelevant in 2024, it’s rooted in a shallow misreading of history. No one is claiming Ireland can, or should, revert to the conditions of 1916. Hyper-globalization and the surveillance state have fundamentally altered the landscape. But that’s precisely why figures like Clarke remain valuable: not as templates to mimic, but as embodiments of principles like cultural resilience, national sovereignty, and moral conviction—principles that are desperately lacking in today’s fragmented Ireland.Frankly, it’s no surprise that someone from Australia—steeped in every modernist trope and detached from the intricacies of Irish history—would struggle to find any affinity with Irish nationalists like Clarke. But let’s be clear: the last thing Ireland needs is your ideals.</blockquote>

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