The Hibernian

The Hibernian

Editor	Gerry McGeough
Categories	Faith
Frequency	Monthly
First issue	2006
Country	Ireland
Language	Irish English Gaelic
Website	The Hibernian Magazine
ISSN	1649-8410

The Hibernian was a monthly Irish magazine with the subtitle “Faith, Family and Country”.^[1] Twenty-nine issues were published between May 2006 and September 2008.

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). The magazine was associated with the Ancient Order of Hibernians.^[2]

The magazine advocated a form of "faith and fatherland" nationalism which emphasised the persecution of Catholics in previous centuries and saw Irish identity as inseparably bound up with Catholicism. It often published articles on Irish history written from this perspective, as well as devotional articles and political/social comment. However, its publication was not without controversy and it was accused of being a "a publicity vehicle for McGeough and the extreme right in Ireland".^[2]

Issue number 25 from May 2008 featured Declan Ganley of Libertas on the cover and carried an extensive interview with him.^[3]

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

It also promoted the activities of Fr. Nicholas Gruner, editor of the Fatima Crusader magazine, who accuses the Vatican of concealing the content of the Third Secret of Fatima. Fr. Gruner was suspended from the exercise of his priesthood in 1996 after refusing to cease his activities and return to the diocese of his incardination.^{[5] [6][7][8]}

It 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 sponsored 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.^[9]

It has supported distributivism^[10].

An article in the November 2007 issue refers to Cardinal John Henry Newman as a "sourpuss old Brit".^[11]

The final issue (September 2008) announced that the magazine was closing because of restrictions placed on McGeough as a result of his impending prosecution. The issue also includes an Irish-language prayer for the canonisation of Marcel Lefebvre, a profile of Deirdre Manifold (Galway-based author of Fatima and the Great Conspiracy) expounding her view that the Irish are "the Chosen Race of the New Testament", and an article advocating Young Earth creationism. The final article "Is it time to listen to heaven" by Joe O'Brien declares that the fate of the Hibernian shows "you cannot win against naturalism.. on a material level with political rallying, diplomatic maneuvring, or even military force... In order to defeat naturalism we must appeal to supernatural support".

References

1. ^ The Hibernian Magazine
2. ^ ^{a b} Ex-Provo gives new life to Irish clerical fascism, Scott Millar, Searchlight Magazine, August 2006
3. ^ Interview with Declan Ganley, Issue number 25 May 2008
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. ^ "Fr. Nicholas Gruner" Hibernian November 2007 p.13 which describes him as "a Roman Catholic priest in good standing"
6. ^ "Fr. Gruner's Irish Tour" Hibernian December 2007 pp. 14–15)
7. ^ Article on Fr. Gruner
8. ^ Another article on Fr. Gruner
9. ^ e.g. The Ploughman "Safe Havens" Hibernian August 2007
10. ^ Splintered Sunrise on Hibernian magazine
11. ^ Cian Ua Ruairc "The agony and the ecstacy" p. 17