The impact of the peace process in Ireland is clearly evident in the
language used in peace efforts in the Basque Country.
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Irish peace process has lessons for Basques
The impact of the peace process in Ireland is clearly evident in the
language used in peace efforts in the Basque Country.
Published March 1, 2010
Roger Casement had returned to Ireland in 1916 to share his comrades’ fate. In
1965, 49 years later and 45 years ago this week, he was finally able to
rejoin them one last time.
Published February 25, 2010
The unique prehistoric site of Newgrange in County Meath, Ireland is
threatened by a planned bypass of Slane village; to preserve the site,
the village should be closed to lorries, or the bypass should take a
western route.
Published February 22, 2010
Irish unity conference in London
A conference on the prospects for Irish unity organised by Sinn Fein in
London on Saturday heard that unification “within a meaningful
time-scale” is both “realistic and feasible”.
Published February 22, 2010
Ryan’s madness and folly in Corrib row
The Corrib saga has become so bitter and divisive, it can be hard to see
the obvious.
Published February 18, 2010
A recent interview with Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams about sectarian parades, the policing and justice deal, and the controversy surrounding allegations against his brother Liam.
Published February 15, 2010
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the release from captivity of
Nelson Mandela. We carry an extract from his memoirs on his time at
Robben Island prison.
Published February 11, 2010
Action alert - Maghaberry visitors strip-searched
An action alert by families of republican prisoners
being held at Maghaberry jail in county Antrim.
Published February 4, 2010
Bloody Sunday - the struggle continues
As many victims of miscarriages of justice will testify, admissions of
guilt by Britain take a long time to come to pass.
Published January 25, 2010
Inquiry must look at role of politics
Before deciding what form an inquiry should take, we must define what
exactly we need to know.
Published January 21, 2010
Gerry Adams replies to allegations published by Suzanne Breen and the Sunday Tribune newspaper.
Published January 18, 2010
The basis of the UDA decommissioning settlement was set out back in
2007.
Published January 14, 2010
How Liam Mellows escaped from exile in England to return to Ireland
in time for the 1916 Rising.
Published January 11, 2010
The annual New Year statements issued by the main
nationalist and republican organisations
Published January 2, 2010
A review of the declassified documents released in Dublin, London and
Belfast under the 30 years rule.
Published January 2, 2010
Another old stalwart of the conflict to leave us this year was the
veteran Sinn Fein activist Marie Moore who died in hospital after a long
illness
Published December 28, 2009
Maud Gonne - Yeats’s Caitlin ni Houlihan
Born during an age when women were expected to be nothing more than
handsome window-dressing for their husbands, when women were expected to
leave the rough and tumble world of politics to men, Maud Gonne rose
above that prejudice to leave her mark on Ireland’s history.
Published December 21, 2009
Action alert for republican prisoners
Prisoner support groups have urged those interested to send a card or
letter this holiday season to those republican prisoners currently
behind bars.
Published December 17, 2009
An appeal to Americans to continue the MacBride agenda of
change in the north of Ireland by investing twice: once for jobs, once for
justice.
Published December 14, 2009
War declared on workers and the poor
The Fianna Fail/Green Party budget represents a savage attack on the
working class of the Twenty-Six Counties.
Published December 10, 2009
Nuclear threat from British reactors
The proposed designs for seven new British nuclear power stations, which
will be built along the Irish Sea coast, have potentially lethal flaws.
Published December 7, 2009
An account of Volunteer Tom Maguire’s escape from Athlone Barracks in
1923.
Published December 3, 2009
Address to Hogan/Martin commemoration
The full text of the keynote address by Sinn Fein
strategist Declan Kearney to the commemoration this weekend in village
of Dunloy to mark the 20th anniversary of the deaths of Volunteers
Declan Martin and Henry Hogan.
Published November 30, 2009
Help bring the Manchester Martyrs home
Help the campaign for the Manchester Martyrs to be returned home to
Ireland.
Published November 26, 2009
Johnny Walker - A terrible injustice
Thirty five years ago, six Irishmen were jailed for crimes they did not commit, and
spent 16 years in jail before their convictions were quashed.
Published November 23, 2009
Sinn Fein pre-budget submission
The executive summary of Sinn Fein’s pre-budget submission
for the 2010 calendar year.
Published November 19, 2009
A member of Sinn Fein in south Armagh has blamed unionists and British
state security agencies for a major investigation into his finances.
Published November 16, 2009
Republican Sinn Fein elects new President
Des Dalton became the new president of Republican Sinn Fein at its
Ard-Fheis [annual conference] on Sunday.
Published November 16, 2009
Prominent socialist republican Gerry Ruddy looks at the recent recent
decision by the INLA to renounce armed struggle.
Published November 12, 2009
Address to annual SF Edentubber Commemoration
Sinn Fein’s Annual Edentubber Commemoration on Sunday was addressed by
Conor Murphy, the Six County Minister for Regional Development.
Published November 9, 2009
Chairman’s Address to 32CSM AGM
The 32 County Sovereignty Movement held its Annual General Meeting in
Derry on Saturday.
Published November 9, 2009
As the Twenty-Six County budget looms ever nearer and Britain’s Stormont
administration considers cut backs, there is much uncertainty and fear
in working class communities throughout Ireland.
Published November 5, 2009
Colin Duffy - a victim of state persecution
For two decades Colin Duffy has been the target of an unrelenting
campaign of persecution and victimisation by state forces within the Six
Counties.
Published November 2, 2009
Relatives for Justice has campaigned on behalf of the Hegarty family in
connection with the killing of their son, Daniel. The following is their
profile on the case.
Published October 29, 2009
The Black Irish of Jamaica: ‘One Love’
The Irish are alive and well in Jamaica, writes Rob Mullally. The third
and final part of a three-part series.
Published October 26, 2009
McCord addresses US Congressional hearing
The testimony of Raymond McCord Sr. before
the US Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on
International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight, on the subject of collusion.
Published October 22, 2009
Interview with Ruairi O Bradaigh
The President of Republican Sinn Fein, who recently announced he is
stepping down from the position, is interviewed.
Published October 19, 2009
Red shanks, bogtrotters and pirates
The second part of a three-part series by Rob Mullally, from the Wild
Geese, about the black Irish of Jamaica.
Published October 16, 2009
Republican prisoner John Brady had a row with his brother-in-law while
on weekend parole. He ended up hanging from his laces in a PSNI cell.
His family don’t believe it was suicide. A report by Suzanne Breen
for the Sunday Tribune.
Published October 13, 2009
Truth can’t be the final Bloody Sunday victim
One of the reasons for hostility to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry is to be
found in a judgement delivered in the High Court in London last Friday
in the case of Khunder al-Sweady.
Published October 8, 2009
A three part series on the history of the Irish settlers in Jamaica.
Published October 5, 2009
Talking about a ‘Lost Revolution’
An interview with the authors of ‘The Lost Revolution’, Brian Hanley and Scott Millar. It also includes some analysis
from the authors on key events covered in the book on the Official Republicans/The Workers’ Party.
Published October 1, 2009
The Lisbon Treaty is unchanged
On Friday you have an opportunity to shape the future of Europe. The
question you have to ask yourself is whether the Lisbon Treaty is a good
deal for Ireland and whether it takes the European Union in the
direction you want it to go
Published September 28, 2009
Lisbon hides ticking time bomb of EU defence body
The Lisbon Treaty proposes to incorporate the European Defence Agency
within the institutional structure of the European Union.
Published September 24, 2009
The surrender of our fishing waters: A continental coup
It is worth remembering when vested intersts remind you yet again of the
structural funds we received from the European Union what we ourselves
as a nation have given to the EU. Namely, our entire fishing waters,
which was the admission price for entry.
Published September 21, 2009
Maura Harrington is a spokesperson for the Shell to Sea campaign, from
County Mayo, who has now been jailed four times for her opposition to
the Shell Corrib gas project in north Mayo. Here she looks back at a
decade of resistance by the local community and its supporters against
an unwanted, dangerous and apparently corrupt exploitation of a
sensitive environment.
Published September 17, 2009
Time for the transfer of powers
Policing has again reached a critical juncture but with a fresh
opportunity to accelerate the process of change.
Published September 14, 2009
Stand together for our own good
Nationalists and republicans should have a united policy about
one most important issue: Our right to make our own political, economic
and cultural decisions.
Published September 10, 2009
The killing of Loughlin Maginn
The killing of Loughlin Maginn was to spark a chain reaction of
events that would finally lift the lid on Crown force collusion.
Published September 7, 2009
Pro-Lisbon factions get desperate
With just five weeks to go to the referendum on Lisbon 2, the Yes side
grows ever more desperate and its advocates more bizarre.
Published September 3, 2009
Bailing out the rich and powerful
In the course of the current crisis, the only
state intervention into the market has been to secure the interests and
profits of a tiny wealthy elite.
Published August 31, 2009
Nama a good deal only for the banks’ shareholders
UCD lecturer Karl Whelan on the implications of the Dublin government’s
proposed bailout for Irish property speculators and their bankers
through the National Asset Management Agency (Nama).
Published August 27, 2009
The scene for the Battle of the Bogside was set long before August 1969.
Published August 20, 2009
The stone that broke the North’s dam of violence
Forty years ago this weekend, the dam broke and the generational
political failure that had deepened since partition washed over all the
Irish political institutions.
Published August 14, 2009
Secret go-between shines a light on history makers
Brendan Duddy is slowly emerging as another
important name to add to that list of names most publicly associated with the Irish peace process
Published August 7, 2009
Making Sinn Fein’s message relevant
Sinn Fein is not in crisis and its continued role in and relevance to
the future of political life in Ireland is not in doubt, according to Eoin O Broin.
Published July 31, 2009
The death took place during the week of Frank McCourt, one of Ireland’s
greatest and most popular writers and a major literary figure in his
native New York. We publish an extract from his novel, ‘Angela’s Ashes’.
Published July 24, 2009
The single most important issue facing the people of Ireland and Britain
is the achievement of Irish unity and the construction of a new
relationship between Ireland and Britain based on equality.
Published July 17, 2009
Twenty-Six County’s week of shame in Mayo
In addition to the three hundred Gardai, the two Navy ships, the planes
and the helicopters the Twenty-Six County government have also brought
their ‘justice’ system out to bat for Shell.
Published July 10, 2009
A senior Irish-American suggests the areas where U.S. support might be most welcome and
productive.
Published July 3, 2009
Last week’s judgment in Belfast was a triumph for press freedom across
Europe, according to Sunday Tribune Northern Editor Suzanne Breen.
Published June 26, 2009
The official launch of the Don’t Extradite the Basques Campaign took
place last Wednesday [June 10] in Culturlann MacAdam-O Fiaich in
Belfast.
Published June 19, 2009
Mayo man Pat O’Donnell has had his boat, the ‘Iona Isle’ boarded last
night by armed, masked men and sunk in the latest act of aggression by
Shell OIl & Gas in their attempt to construct a controversial onshore
gas refinery in Belmullet.
Published June 12, 2009
Three IRA Volunteers were shot dead by undercover British forces
fourteen years ago this week
Published June 4, 2009
A keynote speech delivered by Sinn Féin’s Deputy First
Minister Martin McGuinness at the Kevin Lynch commemoration at Park,
County Derry last weekend.
Published May 29, 2009
Sinn Féin launch local election manifesto
Sinn Féin launched the party’s campaign for the local government
elections in the 26 Counties this week.
Published May 22, 2009
She came, she saw, she left again and, in between, the usual crowd of
hangers on and supposedly intelligent people reduced themselves to the
babblings of fools and morons.
Published May 15, 2009
Sinn Féin MEP for the Six Counties, Bairbre de Brun this week delivered
the annual Bobby Sands Memorial Lecture, the theme of which was
‘Countess Markievicz and the 100th anniversary of Na Fianna Eireann.
Published May 8, 2009
Long Kesh could be a ‘must see’ attraction
Belfast’s Crumlin Road Prison is not only an impressive, indeed,
imposing, example of Victorian prison architecture it is also a museum,
an artefact, in its own right.
Published April 24, 2009
Adams address to Easter commemoration
The full text of the address by Sinn Féin President
Gerry Adams to his party’s Easter Rising commemoration in west Belfast.
Published April 17, 2009
Two Catholic priests shot dead by the British Army during the conflict
were remembered this week at St Peter’s Cathedral in Belfast.
Published April 10, 2009
SF owes debt of gratitude to Marie Moore
To me, Marie Moore, who passed away a few weeks ago, belonged to a
heroic generation.
Published April 3, 2009
A debt of gratitude owed to women activists
More work needs to be done to ensure that women are at the centre
of decision making, especially in government and parliament
Published March 27, 2009
Eirigi condemns ‘trial by media’
eirigi
chairperson Brian Leeson issued the following statement on Monday,
clarifying that no member of the group has been arrested in connection
with last week’s attacks.
Published March 19, 2009
The political institutions, the peace process and Sinn Fein are as
much a target of the perpetrators of Saturday night's attack as those
they killed or injured.
Published March 13, 2009
We need a Rising! That thought came into my head as I listened to RTE
radio’s report of last Saturday’s mass trade union rally in Dublin.
Published February 27, 2009
Four Derry men
remember with pain and dread a Valentines Day thirty years
ago when their lives and the lives of their families were turned
upside down.
Published February 20, 2009
Pearse Lawlor has
penned the first published account of the events of July to September
1920 in which more than 1,000 Catholic families lost their homes in
county Down.
Published February 13, 2009
Internment 1971 - 2009: A case of injustice
The following address was given by Tony Catney of the Republican
Network for Unity at Derry’s Gasyard Centre as part of this year’s
annual Bloody Sunday commemoration.
Published February 6, 2009
A defining point in Irish history
The keynote address by Sinn Sinn Féin
President Gerry Adams at the Mansion House in Dublin to his party’s
90th anniversary commemoration of the First Dail.
Published January 30, 2009
Long Kesh - Scenes from the inside
Can an incident-packed and prolonged time span be adequately
explored in the form of a play?
Published January 30, 2009
Address to First Dail Eireann commemoration
Caoimhghin O Caolain TD told the official commemoration this week that the work of the First Dail remains unfinished. We publish the full text of his address.
Published January 23, 2009
Setting the ‘free Derry’ record straight
The famous ‘Free Derry’ wall was painted forty years ago this month.
Eamon McCann corrects the record of the day when the inspiring
international landmark was born.
Published January 16, 2009
The People’s Democracy march, forty years ago this week, is seen by
historians as marking a significant turning point in the recent
conflict.
Published January 9, 2009
The full text of the New Year statements issued by Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and republican organisations
in Ireland.
Published January 2, 2009
Time to write a new chapter in Pol Brennan’s life
Let Christmas 2008 be the last Pol Brennan ever spends behind bars.
Published December 19, 2008
A look at the electoral facts surrounding Sinn Féin’s
historic victory at the 1918 General Election, ninety years ago this
week.
Published December 12, 2008
De Menezes murder - the cover-up
A cousin recalls the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes and how the British
system has struggled to admit London’s own shoot-to-kill policy.
Published December 5, 2008
Republican Sinn Féin Ard Fheis
The Presidential Address delivered
by Republican Sinn Féin President Ruairi O Bradaigh in Dublin to RSF's annual conference earlier
this month.
Published November 28, 2008
Wolfe Tone died on November 19, 1798 - 310 years ago this week
- from a stab wound to his neck which he inflicted upon himself.
Published November 21, 2008
The theme of Sinn Fein's Edentubber Commemoration this year was
the role of women in the struggle for Irish freedom.
Published November 13, 2008
Helicopter escape from Mountjoy
At Halloween 1973 in Dublin, one of the most audacious, cleverly
planned jail escapes in Irish history occurred.
Published November 7, 2008
It is twenty years to the day, since the British Government imposed the
media ban as part of another review of security in the North of
Ireland.
Published October 31, 2008
Hunger is a true-to-life film, not propaganda, as claimed by its unionist
critics.
Published October 24, 2008
Nationalising the risks, not the assets
Brian Leeson, eirigi chairperson, presents his analysis of the crisis
in the Irish financial system, of those who created it, and the choices
facing Irish citizens for the future.
Published October 17, 2008
The day the RUC appeared on TV
Events in Derry’s Duke Street forty years ago were magnified
by the arrival of a new witness to Irish history: the television news camera.
Published October 10, 2008
Recollections by civil rights activist Fionnbarra O Dochartaigh regarding
the event which some historians characterise as the day the ‘Troubles’
began.
Published October 3, 2008
On the 25th anniversary of the mass escape from the H-Blocks of Long
Kesh, some of those who took part have revealed the dramatic events
surrounding the escape for a new documentary.
Published September 26, 2008
Omagh - The bomb to end all bombs?
Did a British agent first flout Omagh as a potential target for a bomb attack? Was the carnage of August 15 the product of his labour?
Published September 19, 2008
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