



An interview with Rob Carry
First published on Friday 19th September 2025Good afternoon! As part of our ongoing series on rising nationalist stars and voices in Ireland, we're delighted to be able to introduce local community activist, businessman and politician, Rob Carry!
We've been talking about his amazing work for and with his community, as well as his aspirations and plans for the future.
ACS: Can you tell us a little about yourself, your background, and where you're coming from?
RC: Sure. So I’m a small business owner (I run a commercial gym, a martial arts club and some other small businesses), all of which are based in Bray, County Wicklow.
Prior to going into business, I worked in the media. I graduated with a Masters in Journalism back in 2004 on the back of an undergrad degree in History in Politics. I wrote mostly property, travel and other lifestyle stuff but I’d freelance for everyone and anyone. I worked in the media in Australia, Thailand and here in Ireland before wrapping up and setting up a martial arts club. That was my first business, and things grew from there.
I’d also describe myself as a communi
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An Interview with Gavin from Offgrid Ireland
First published on Tuesday 16th September 2025Good morning and welcome to another in our series of interviews with prominent figures and rising stars in modern Irish nationalism!
Today we're talking to Gavin from a prominent and influential online discussion group, the X SPACES Éire Community. This very active group has at one time or another hosted many well-known nationalist names and continues to grow in both size and influence.
ACS: Can you share with our readers some of your background and a little about who you are?
OI: I am an Offaly man, born and bred, now in my late thirties, and a proud father of four, which is the greatest joy and responsibility of my life. Raised by a single mother, I never knew my father, but my deeply religious extended family provided a nurturing environment and a strong Christian foundation that shaped me to this day.
My background includes retail management and a family business that struggled during the Celtic Tiger era. After a challenging period following the breakdown of my relationship, sparked an addiction to cocaine as an escape subsequent legal troubles, a time I deeply regret, I found redemption in turn
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A New Voice For Ireland
First published on Monday 9th December 2024We are pleased to introduce a new rising star among Irish nationalists - although she needs no introduction for many of you who have attended Irish Ireland protests recently - Ciara Ní Mhainnín! Her uncompromising voice offers a clear challenge to the establishment and a great example for us all to follow.
Ciara very kindly took the time to join us in an online interview, which we are delighted to publish here.
ACS: What made you decide to get involved with the Irish Ireland cause, was there one particular event or was it more of a process?
CNM: Multiple videos that circulated showing busloads of "Ukrainian women and children", who were in fact military aged men was enough for me. The Irish people were fed the Ukrainian sob story as an excuse to open our borders and let half the world in. Unfortunately the majority of the country fell for it.
ACS: How would you say recent changes in Ireland have affected you personally and your local area in general?
CNM: People who would have avoided me are now thanking me for speaking out. Obviously, there's still plenty who disagree with m
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The last address of Thomas MacDonagh
First published on Monday 1st May 1916There is not much left to say. The Proclamation of the Irish Republic has been adduced in evidence against me as one of the Signatories. I adhere to every statement in the Proclamation. You think it already a dead and buried letter, but it lives, it lives. From minds alight with Ireland’s vivid intellect it sprang; in hearts aflame with Ireland’s mighty love it was conceived. Such documents do not die.
The British occupation of Ireland has never for more than one hundred years been compelled to confront in the field of fight a Rising so formidable as that which overwhelming force has for the moment succeeded in quelling. This Rising did not result from accidental circumstances, it came in due recurring season as the necessary outcome of forces that are ever at work. The fierce pulsation of resurgent pride that disclaims servitude may one day cease to throb in the heart of Ireland. but the heart of Ireland will that day be dead.
While Ireland lives, the brains and brawn of her manhood will strive to destroy the last vestige of British rule in her territories. In this ceaseless struggle there will be, as there has been and must be, an alternat
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From A Hermitage - DECEMBER 1913
First published on Monday 15th December 1913I was once stranded on a desert island with a single companion. When two people are stranded on a desert island they naturally converse. We conversed. We sat on a stony beach and talked for hours. When we had exhausted all the unimportant subjects either of us could think of, we commenced to talk about important subjects. (I have observed that even on a desert island it is not considered good form to talk of important things while unimportant things remain to be discussed.)
We had very different points of views, and very different temperaments. I was a boy; my companion was an old man. I was about to enter the most wicked of all professions; my companion was a priest. Being young, I was serious and conceited; being old, my companion was gay and humble.
In some respects I was more learned than he: he was trying to spell his way through Keatings Trí Bior-Ghaoithe an Bháis, and I was able to help him. But in every respect he was wiser beyond telling than I, for his life had been stormy and sorrowful, and withal very saintly, so that he had garnered much of the wisdom both of heaven and of earth; and I had garnered only the wisdom of the
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On Emigration
First published on Saturday 18th July 1903From An Claidheamh Soluis, July 18, 1903.
In a letter to the Freeman’s Journal of Friday last, the Hon. Secretary of the Anti-Emigration Society directs attention to the grim figures revealed by the latest emigration returns issued by the Board of Trade.
‘They show,’ she writes, ‘that 23,401 Irish emigrants left the United Kingdom in the first six months of the current year as against 20,610 in the corresponding period of 1902, and that the outflow has therefore increased by 2,791 for the half year. Over two thousand of this increase came into last May, when an army of 7,971 left, as against 5,812 in May, 1902. The loss in May would be equivalent to the annihilation of a town of about the size of Bray, or Queenstown, or Tralee, or Newtownards, or of Ballinasloe and Castlebar put together. And May was not the heaviest month, for 8,489 left in April.
‘Apart from the general increase,’ continues the writer, ‘there is matter for anxiety in the fact that Irish emigration to Canada has doubled for the six months, having risen to 1,422, as against 713 in the first half of 19
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Rosa agus na Sacsanaigh
First published on Sunday 20th July 2025Anyone who has studied, for any length of time, the life and writing of arch-Fenian Diarmaid Ó Donnabháin Rosa (Jeremiah O'Donovan-Rossa) must be struck by the sheer contempt in which he held British culture and civilisation at large.
To some this might seem to be unfair, a sweeping judgement cast upon both the wicked and the good - what of the art, they ask, the literature, music and theatre? The scientific accomplishments, the moral aspirations, which might never have been attained but at least remained in the firmament of stars to reach for? Was he not allowing his own life experiences to prejudice his perspective?
Ó Donnabháin Rosa was a man of rare insight, and the understanding he developed of the very soul of anglo civilisation is deeply relevant to ourselves and the straits we find ourselves in today.
A survivor of An Gorta Mór, he saw with his own eyes the monstrous intent and mindset behind the whole of British "civilisation".
It is, in effect, a state within a state, an upper class consisting of more or less the same deeply inbred clade descended from the Anglo Norman invaders (th
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Ireland Must Stand Alone: Why We Must Reject British Interference in Our National Movement
First published on Monday 14th July 2025In this decisive hour of Ireland’s destiny, when the soul of our nation is under foreign threat, we must speak with the certainty of the Men of 1916 and without compromise: there can be no alliance, association, or consultation with any figure who is connected to the British system, or who has worked in concert with the British establishment, MI5, or Crown forces—no matter how polished their language or seemingly aligned their goals may be.
The current attempts to weave British voices into Irish nationalist movements must be rejected outright, and those orchestrating these entanglements must be called upon not to be duped by foreign agents who are a Trojan Horse. In recent days a name has surfaced one Jim Ferguson—a man who, by his own public admissions, has worked extensively with British police forces, specialist intelligence units, and counter-terrorism operations (MI5/MI6).
His involvement in campaigns offering rewards for “wrongdoers,” his political candidacy with the Brexit Party and Conservative circles, and his background in supporting the very intelligence apparatus that occupies part of Ireland, places him not on
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“Newry Against Racism” — A British Government Front in Disguise
First published on Friday 27th June 2025At the beginning of July, a protest titled "Newry Against Racism" is set to take place—on the surface, it looks like local groups. But like any sleight of hand, it masks a more insidious truth. This is not a march for unity, justice, or real equality. It is a calculated political move—a direct counter to the recent “Keep Ireland Irish” march, which bravely stood against the forced transformation of Irish communities under unchecked immigration and foreign policy mandates.
The upcoming protest is not grassroots. It is a coordinated endorsement of the British Government’s agenda, cloaked in progressive language. At the heart of this march is NISPA, a union operating in the occupied six counties.
NISPA isn’t just a trade union—it represents thousands of PSNI members, civilians working for the British Army, and a legacy built on ex-RUC officers, loyalists, and those tied to the Orange Order and other sectarian British-aligned organisations. It represents the English Civil Service of the occupied-counties who maintain partition. This is not neutrality. This is a deliberate alliance with British Crown forces
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