Irish Republican News: Archives

The memoirs of IRA commander and life-long Kerry republican Dan Mulvihill, an aide to anti-Treaty IRA chief of staff, Liam Lynch, reveals the anger of many of his former comrades about developments in the early years of the conflict in the Six Counties.

Hunter was right: Unionists have a coloniser mindset

The English carried out such cultural suppression whenever they took over any part of these islands.

How the Rising was planned

A look at the background to the IRA's heroic fight for independence in 1916, by Mark Duncan.

A courageous advocate for Palestinians

Ms. Francesca Albanese is the Special Rapporteur for the United Nations in the Palestinian territories. She is a remarkable champion for human rights and international law whose moral integrity and deep rooted humanity are an inspiration.

Reject the welfare cuts

Cuts announced this month by the British government Minister Rachel Reeves are set to push thousands of people in the north of Ireland into poverty and have been opposed across the political spectrum.

Chipping away at partition

Carl Duffy, a candidate for Aontú in the last general election in Fermanagh and South Tyrone, lays out a possible ‘inch-by-inch’ approach towards a United Ireland.

The smell of death returns in Gaza

We are in a terrifying new reality, writes Jannah Ahmad Abu Sitta (for the Electronic Intifada).

Remembering Joey Clarke

Fifty years ago this week, Joey Clarke died from gunshot wounds he received when he went to answer a knock at the door of his home off the Ormeau Road. By Anthony Neeson (for belfastmedia.com)

Thatcher’s executions

An account of how former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher personally oversaw an SAS shoot-to-kill ambush that claimed the lives of three republicans in Gibraltar in 1988, 37 years ago this week.

Taking a stand

The decision by Uachtarán Shinn Féin Mary Lou McDonald and Leas Uachtarán Michelle O’Neill not to attend the St. Patrick’s Day events in the White House and the Speakers lunch on Capitol Hill, will undoubtedly upset some of our friends across Irish America. This is very understandable.

It’s the end game for Irish unity, but Dublin won’t play

Neither Micheál Martin nor Simon Harris has the slightest intention of lifting a finger to advance reunification. It would upset the applecart.

The extradition of Martin McCauley

A message shared on social media from Christine McCauley, the wife of veteran republican Martin McCauley, who was extradited to the north of Ireland last week.

The Clonoe Inquest

The 1916 Societies on the verdict that the use of force by the SAS in the killing of the four Clonoe Martyrs was ‘not justified’.

Unity is the Irish state’s constitutional imperative

Tánaiste Simon Harris and Taoiseach Micheál Martin are ignoring the central point of the peace deal they trumpet.

The north can never be a nation

The failure of previous attempts to wash away the name of something unpleasant, as illustrated with Windscale, Long Kesh and the protocol, only leads to ridicule.