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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Michael Collins and the Organisation of Irish Intelligence, 1917-21

  In the first of a series of articles on the Irish war of independence, Colm McInerney details the importance of Michael Collins. Freedom Fighter or Terrorist depending upon your point of view, but his contribution to the art of guerilla warfare remains incontrevertible.

  
  
• "Tumultuous, prolonged applause ending in ovation. All rise." Khrushchev's "Secret Report" and Poland

  In 1956 Nikita Khrushchev, addressing a closed session of the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party, did the unthinkable and denounced his predecessor Stalin. The report on the "cult of the individual", which inevitably and quickly leaked out across the Eastern Bloc, was shocking - people were reported to have fainted upon hearing it. Robert Looby takes a look at the report, and the Polish reaction to it at the time.

  
  
• The Game of War. Guy Debord and the Society of the Spectacle.

  Guy Debord was the leading French philosopher of the Situationist International. 10 years after his death, by suicide, his work The Society of the Spectacle seems ever more relevant, and has worked its way into the vocabulary of groups as diverse as anti-globalization protesters to Islamic separatists. Shane Barry spoke to biographer Dr. Andrew Hussey about this enduring relevance.

  
  
• Sexuality, Sin, and Sacrifice - Deconstructing the Patriarchy. An interview with Dr. Mary Condren

  Dr. Mary Condren's ground-breaking work The Serpent and the Goddess(1989) examined the relationships between women, religion and power in Celtic Ireland. The themes brought up, though, are as relevant today as ever. In interview with TMO, Dr Condren discusses Church State relations, feminist history, and the gender politics of suicide bombing.

  
  
• In Defence of a Liberal Education.

  Would we accept the foundation, with tax-payers money, of political schools? For example, a neo-conservative school here, or a communist school there, where pupils would be instructed uncritcally in a political ideology? Dr. Stephen Law, author of The War for Children's Minds, argues that we would not, and why, then, should we accept religious schools so readily?