The Hibernian

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The Hibernian is a monthly Irish magazine with the subtitle “Faith, Family and Country”.^[1]

It was launched in May 2006, by Gerry McGeough, formerly a member of the Sinn Féin national executive, as editor, and Charles Byrne, a 28-year-old from Drogheda, who writes as "Cathal O Broin", the Irish-language version of his name. It is associated with the Ancient Order of Hibernians.^[2] The magazine has been accused of being a "a publicity vehicle for McGeough and the extreme right in Ireland"^[3]

The magazine advocates a form of "faith and fatherland" nationalism which emphasises the persecution of Catholics in previous centuries and sees Irish identity as inseparably bound up with Catholicism. It often publishes articles on Irish history written from this perspective, as well as devotional articles and political/social comment.

The magazine regularly promotes the Tridentine Rite of Mass, often in a manner sympathetic to the Society of St. Pius X and to sedevacantists.^[4]

It has also promoted the activities of Fr. Nicholas Gruner, editor of FATIMA CRUSADER magazine, who accuses the Vatican of concealing the content of the Third Secret of Fatima. Fr. Gruner was suspended form the exercise of his priesthood in 1996 after refusing to close down his activities and return to the diocese of his incardination. ("Fr. Nicholas Gruner" HIBERNIAN November 2007 P.13 which describes him as "a Roman Catholic priest in good standing""Fr. Gruner's Irish Tour" HIBERNIAN December 2007 pp14-15;^[5][6]

It has published numerous articles alleging that the international banking system is run by money-manipulating conspirators (e.g. Helen McClafferty "The Illuminati and Bilderberg Conferences" HIBERNIAN February 2007 pp20-21 _"In 1776 the Illuminati set out to destroy nations and religions, private property and marriage. Today,in 2007, we are now witnessing those acts coming to fruition" and Tommy Price "Money Matters: Abraham Lincoln's greenbacks - Part V in a series on money" - "These external forces were trying to break up the union, so they could have smaller nations of equal power, to play one against the other in the war debt game.. International banking was the hidden power behind these conflicts in Europe... Rothschild agent August Belmont had placed large amounts of Rothschild money into bonds of the state sponsired banks in the South... International banking houses were furious over the issuance of Lincoln's Greenbacks.. Eventually Abraham Lincoln paid the price for the issuance of greenbacks.. killed by John Wilkes Booth, who had links to the Knights of the Golden Circle.. drawing its membership from masonic lodges") and advocating national and personal autarky (e.g. The Ploughman "Safe Havens" HIBERNIAN August 2007

It has supported distributivism^[7].

An article in the November 2007 refers to Cardinal John Henry Newman as an "sourpuss old Brit" (Cian Ua Ruairc "The agony and the ecstacy" p.17).^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

1. ^ The Hibernian Magazine
2. ^ Ex-Provo gives new life to Irish clerical fascism, Scott Millar, Searchlight Magazine, August 2006
3. ^ Ex-Provo gives new life to Irish clerical fascism
4. ^ e.g. Cian Ua Ruairc "The agony and the ecstasy" HIBERNIAN November 2007 pp17-19) "Most people do not realise the destruction that has taken place in the Novus Ordo rite. It's not a matter of there being no Last Gospel and no mysterium fidei (mystery of faith) for the consecration of the chalice; the immemorial Eastern liturgies don't have them either and no-one calls them doubtful or invalid... the seasonal and saints' day prayers.. have been purged, quietly and noiselessly, of their Catholic and supernatural content... A small pamphlet, The Problems of the Prayers of the new mass, by Fr Anthony Cekada (see entry) shows how this is true."
5. ^ Article on Fr. Gruner
6. ^ Another article on Fr. Gruner
7. ^ Splintered Sunrise on Hiberian magazine