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Sunday, Mar 14th 2010


Satire on Irish Left Review

The Satire section contains all satirical articles. As Lenny Bruce says: “Satire is tragedy plus time”.

Articles

Give Ireland Back to the English!

Welcome to Sunny Crete. Don’t Not Forget Your Beach Towels!!
Did my title get your attention? Si! Are you like it? Of course! Is my entry suggestion for the new competition Your Lovely Pissing Country, Your Call, which have been set up by the husband of the president of lovely pissing [...]

Your Ireland, Your Funeral

In keeping with the spirit of the times, Khmer Rouge Strippergram (in association with ILR) is launching its annual Limerick for Ireland competition. Entrants must endeavour to produce works that accurately represent and reflect life in 21st-century Ireland. It is our fervent hope that the naturally good-hearted and instinctively cheerful people of this fine and [...]

Not Every Wound Heals

Don’t Call Me Scarface!!
Si, is the very lovely late actress Vanessa Redgrave, who I think was die last week because I see a tribute to her on the BIFTAS. Here in this picture she is also dying, but just pretend dying, in the role of the socialite Isadora Dunkin, who was invent not just the [...]

Downhill All the Way

Treating injuries miles from the ER is an essential skill, but you don’t need to be a doctor, surgeon, nurse, paediatrician, obstetric gynaecologist, or even a plain old voyeur to learn what it takes to survive in the wild. Brad Chilterns is the founder of Outdoor Medicine, which specializes in teaching underedumacated back-country folk and [...]

Between a Rock Salmon and a Hard Plaice

Seriously, though, who is going to read all that?
I think it was the ancient Greek philosopher Epididymis who was said, “Woe be unto him who is know not what he has got. For his neighbour will be livid when he catch it off him.” At the time, he was talking about the pneubonic plague that [...]

Potty Training

“Swallow my luminous cack!” When Swindon mom Debbie Flobb heard her four-year-old son, Robert, use this phrase in conversation with a telecoms engineer on the phone one Monday morning, her first response was utter horror. “I can’t imagine where he might have picked up language like that,” said the 63-year-old mother of three from Didsbury. [...]

Is the Vilence of the Rams!!

Si! Is Sylvester Stallion as Ramboy!
I am have been particularly sicken this week by reading the papers. Reading the papers was always make me sick, but this week the sick was coming out my nostrils, especially when I was read this story about ladies in Manchester, England, being sprayed by a man who throws his [...]

No No Nobel

Excerpts from works by novelists who didn’t even get a look-in at this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, won by Romanian-born German novelist and poet Herta Müller.
Eric thought nothing of knocking out a couple of dozen portraits a day. Lenin. Bruce Lee. Archbishop Makarios. JFK. Rolf Harris. What frustrated him was how easily it came [...]

Where is Fascist Aid?

Earthquakes Leave Us All in a Difficult Position
Like everyone else in the world, I have been watching the earthquake coverage on the television from Haiti and making prayers morning noon and night that God will stop now. I am as lacking in compassion as the next man, so long as the next man is me, [...]

Robinson’s Ma’am Laid

Young Boys Will Stick Their Head Anywhere!
I have always found the politics in Northern Ireland very confusing, I must confess. As I am understand it, the place is divided up into two part, one ruled over by a militaristic authoritarian misogynistic reactionary Protestant fascism, which want to take everyone back to the 17th century, and [...]

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