A senior Irish-American suggests the areas where U.S. support might be most welcome and
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A senior Irish-American suggests the areas where U.S. support might be most welcome and
productive.
July 03, 2009
Last week’s judgment in Belfast was a triumph for press freedom across
Europe, according to Sunday Tribune Northern Editor Suzanne Breen.
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.
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.
June 12, 2009
Three IRA Volunteers were shot dead by undercover British forces
fourteen years ago this week
June 04, 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.
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.
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.
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.
May 08, 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.
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.
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.
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.
April 03, 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
February 06, 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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
January 09, 2009
The full text of the New Year statements issued by Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and republican organisations
in Ireland.
January 02, 2009
Time to write a new chapter in Pol Brennan’s life
Let Christmas 2008 be the last Pol Brennan ever spends behind bars.
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.
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.
December 05, 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.
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.
November 21, 2008
The theme of Sinn Fein's Edentubber Commemoration this year was
the role of women in the struggle for Irish freedom.
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.
November 07, 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.
October 31, 2008
Hunger is a true-to-life film, not propaganda, as claimed by its unionist
critics.
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.
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.
October 10, 2008
Recollections by civil rights activist Fionnbarra O Dochartaigh regarding
the event which some historians characterise as the day the ‘Troubles’
began.
October 03, 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.
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?
September 19, 2008
Hunger strike by Shell to Sea activist
Shell to Sea campaigner Maura Harrington has begun a Hunger Strike to
coincide with the arrival of the Solitaire, Shell’s pipe-laying vessel in
Broadhaven Bay.
September 12, 2008
Modernisation of the Orange Order?
The final installment of a three-part series looking at the
malign influence of the Orange Order in the north of Ireland,
from its inception to the present day.
September 05, 2008
Austin Currie reflects on the huge and peaceful Coalisland to Dungannon
March of August 24th, 1968, which marked a turning point for the Irish
civil rights movement.
August 29, 2008
Bloody Sunday paras linked to Belfast massacre
Truth campaigners now say that Bloody Sunday might never have happened
had the British Army been brought to book for the Ballymurphy
slaughter.
August 22, 2008
Was the Omagh bomb allowed to happen?
The families of the victims have called for a full cross-order public
inquiry into the Omagh bomb, which took place ten years ago this week.
August 15, 2008
Without them there would not have been an IRA, a Sinn Fein, war or
peace or the new Ireland we have today.
August 08, 2008
Glory Days of the Orange Order
The second part in a multi-part series examining the history and
current context of the Protestant marching orders, this week looking at
the Orange Order during the first Stormont administration, 1921-1972.
August 01, 2008
One hundred and sixty years after one of the most traumatic events in
the history of this island, the Dublin Government are to officially
commemorate An Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger, which claimed the lives of
an estimated one million Irish people and reduced the population of the
country by half.
July 25, 2008
The Loyal Orders stress the cultural and religious aspects of their
organisations. The reality of their involvement over the past 200
years tells a different story.
July 18, 2008
The oration by Marion Price at the
grave of Wolfe Tone in the Republican Unity Initiative’s Bodenstown
commemoration.
July 11, 2008
A bond of friendship and solidarity lasting over 50 years was
celebrated in Dublin last month.
July 04, 2008
Sinn Féin is embarking on a more active engagement with those in
Britain who support Irish unity and is seeking to produce “a renewed
strategy able to advance republican goals”.
June 27, 2008
The people have spoken. The Lisbon Treaty is dead. Now it’s time for
Plan B.
June 19, 2008
Forty years ago a family’s decision to make a stand over housing set
in motion a chain of events that would give rise to the civil rights
movement.
June 12, 2008
Belfast’s consummate politician
Belfast City Council took an enlightened step forward in the politics
of reconciliation on Monday night when it elected Sinn Féin councillor
Tom Hartley as its mayor.
June 06, 2008
Thousands turned out for the funeral of IRA commander Brian Keenan in
Belfast on Saturday.
May 30, 2008
If Queen Elizabeth I had lived in the 20th Century, she would have been
viewed with the same horror as Hitler and Stalin.
May 23, 2008
An alternative guide to the Lisbon Treaty
The Lisbon Treaty is a bad deal for Ireland. It gives the EU too much
power and reduces our ability to stop decisions that are not in
Ireland's interests. Ireland deserves better.
May 16, 2008
US action alert - Free Pol Brennan
Irish political refugee Pol Brennan needs our help and support.
May 08, 2008
Bertie Ahern addresses US Congress
The
outgoing 26-County Taoiseach Bertie Ahern made a landmark address to a joint session of the
US Congress this week.
May 02, 2008
The text of an address by Ruairi O Bradaigh, President
of Republican Sinn Féin at the Ireland Institute, Pearse Centre, Dublin
on April 17.
April 25, 2008
This is the most critical time for the Tibetan people.
April 18, 2008
The following is the full text of remarks made by Sinn Féin President
Gerry Adams to a local activist meeting in Belfast this week.
April 11, 2008
Agreement has delivered change
The Belfast Agreement marks an historic and defining point of change in
the history and development of this island, writes Gerry Adams.
April 04, 2008
Good Friday Agreement - Ten years on
Over 250 republican prisoners were released as a result of a key
element of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. A look at what happened to
two of those prisoners, ten years on from the agreement.
March 28, 2008
Statements by the Clinton and Obama campaigns on Ireland.
March 21, 2008
Ian Paisley helped to radicalise my generation. But his lasting legacy
will be helping secure peace, writes Gerry Adams.
March 14, 2008
On this date 20 years ago shortly after teatime an ashen-faced and
clearly distressed Danny Morrison rushed into Tom Hartley’s living room
where I was sitting.
March 07, 2008
Confidence for transfer of powers exists now
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams argues that failure by the DUP to agree
the transfer of policing and justice powers risks eroding confidence in
the political institutions.
February 29, 2008
Brendan ‘Darkie’ reflects on a lifetime
of struggle and the current political situation in Ireland.
February 21, 2008
What exactly are we reforming in this treaty?
An attempt to find out what the Lisbon Reform Treaty means.
February 15, 2008
The first interview in five years with the ‘Real IRA’ was published
this week. The following is an edited version of that interview.
February 08, 2008
Our country has barely known a taste of freedom yet already
we are actively complicit in the destruction of the one central,
world-renowned and undiluted symbol of our unity and strength.
January 31, 2008
If the British government are sincere
about addressing the legacy of the past they could start by publishing
Stevens report.
January 24, 2008
Edmund Burke - The Conscience of a Nation
Edmund Burke was one of the most famous political thinkers of the 18th
century.
January 17, 2008
What a difference a year makes
Ireland January 2008 is a much better place than Ireland January 2007.
What a difference a year can make in the life of a nation.
January 09, 2008
A look back at the main news events of the year that was.
January 03, 2008
A blow against educational inequality
The education system is being opened up for the first time to ensure
equality of access and equality of educational opportunity irrespective
of class or creed.
December 20, 2007
Gerry Adams’s keynote address at the special Sinn Féin conference in
Dublin last weekend.
December 12, 2007
A look at the fourth Budget delivered today by the 26-County Minister for Finance Brian Cowen.
December 05, 2007
Remembering the Manchester Martyrs
On 23 November 1867, three Irishmen, Michael O’Brien, William Philip
Allen and Michael Larkin, were hanged in public in Salford, England,
for the murder of a police sergeant during the rescue of two Fenian
leaders.
November 28, 2007
A report by eirigi activists on the latest action against the
development of a dangerous onshore gas refinery in County Mayo.
November 22, 2007
Presidential Address at RSF Ard Fheis
The full prepared text of the Presidential address delivered to the 103u Ard Fheis of Republican
Sinn Fein on November 11 by Ruairi O Bradaigh.
November 15, 2007
Comrades will sorely miss faithful stalwart
In times of war he was a man of war. In times of peace he was a man of
peace.
November 08, 2007
Exploring different routes to peace
The text of a keynote address by Sinn Féin President
Gerry Adams delivered at a special event on Wednesday night organised in aid of the Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace.
November 01, 2007
Defend Ireland's Natural Resources
The people of Ballinaboy and Rossport and the surrounding areas are
asking people to join them in a day of protest at the site of Shell's
proposed refinery on November 9th.
October 24, 2007
‘If I die, I die in a good cause’, the haunting words of Thomas Ashe,
spoken just prior to his death on hunger strike in 1917, ninety years
ago this month.
October 17, 2007
Oration at funeral of Dan Keating
Oration delivered by Ruairi O Bradaigh, President Republican Sinn Fein
at the funeral of Republican Veteran Dan Keating in County Kerry on
Friday October 5.
October 10, 2007
The Great Peace Process Swindle?
Should the Good Friday Agreement be a model for other conflicts?
October 03, 2007
An action alert issued on behalf of the McAllister
family, which is facing deportation from the US.
September 27, 2007
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the ‘Flight of the Earls’. We
conclude our series of historical articles on a major event in Irish
history.
September 20, 2007
Nairac commanded Miami massacre
He was a guitar player in one of Ireland’s biggest bands but after
their tour bus was stopped at a checkpoint on a lonely country road
near Newry on July 31 1975, nothing would ever be the same for Stephen
Travers.
September 12, 2007
Like a cruel joke, the German demand for Roisin McAliskey’s extradition was
delivered 10 years to the day after she gave birth to Loinnir, under
armed guard, in a London hospital.
September 05, 2007
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams recalls his experiences over the years
at the hands of US security officials (from the Guardian newspaper).
August 30, 2007
Feile a credit to its organisers
A vicious massacre of defenceless people, written out of history, is
now being written back in by the relatives of those so cruelly cut
down.
August 22, 2007
No turning back for truth campaign
The full text of the address by Sinn Féin President
Gerry Adams at the ‘March for Truth’ rally at Belfast City Hall on
Sunday.
August 16, 2007
Plans for Love Ulster Parade cancelled
The organisers of a highly controversial sectarian parade in Dublin,
which had to be abandoned after heavy rioting last year, have said they
have cancelled plans to hold another similar march through the capital
later this year.
August 08, 2007
The wrong force in the wrong place for 38 years
The behaviour of British soldiers in the North was a recruiting
sergeant for the IRA.
August 08, 2007
Consultation fails to meet needs of Irish speakers
Gerry Adams urges the DUP to copper- fasten the rights of citizens and to implement the agreement on the Irish language made at St Andrews.
July 31, 2007
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the ‘Flight of the Earls’. We
examine the background to that major event in Irish history with a
series of historical articles.
July 25, 2007
Past will dictate plans to update Orange Order
For most of its more than 200-year history the Orange Order and the British
government have been inextricably linked.
July 18, 2007
éirígí [meaning ‘rise up’] is a new Irish, Socialist Republican,
political organisation committed to ending the British occupation of
the six counties and the establishment of a thirty-two county
Democratic Socialist Republic.
July 11, 2007
Immigrants’ American Dream ends in tragedy
175 years ago this month, a group of Irish immigrants left for the New
World to help build a pioneering railroad. Six weeks later all were
dead. Now a search is underway to trace their history and find their
bodies.
July 04, 2007
Three orations were made collectively at the graveside of
Theobald Wolfe Tone in Bodenstown on the 17th June, 2007, by three
traditionalist republican groups.
June 27, 2007
We need to remember why Saville was set up
Hayes, Hutchinson and Patten are undermining the argument promoted by
relatives’ organisations that the British Crown forces should be held
to account for the killing of civilians during the conflict.
June 18, 2007
Action Alert for Roisin McAliskey
An action request from the Irish Freedom Committee in
response to the British attempts to once again extradite Roisin
McAliskey
June 11, 2007
Censorship complementing cover-up
Despite progress in the peace process, British forces in
Ireland are still stifling freedom of information, writes
Anthony McIntyre.
June 04, 2007
The anguish of Roisin McAliskey
An article by Nell McCafferty, originally published in
December 1996, recalls the campaign to free Roisin McAliskey following
British attempts to extradite her to Germany.
May 29, 2007
A look at the constituencies where republican candidates could make
gains in Thursday’s 26-County election.
May 21, 2007
Election 2007: Sinn Féin Election Manifesto
The Executive Summary of Sinn Fein's General Election Manifesto, preceded by a message from Gerry Adams.
May 16, 2007
Republican traditionalists met in Derry at the weekend to attempt to
build a united opposition to the new political order in the North and
the “continuing British occupation”.
May 15, 2007
A look back at the history of Stormont -- the site of many failed
Six-County political initiatives in the past -- but today the focus
of renewed political hope.
May 08, 2007
The East Tyrone Brigade & the Loughgall Ambush
Next Tuesday, May 8th, marks the 20th anniversary of the Loughgall
ambush, in which 8 IRA Volunteers and a civilian were killed in an SAS
attack.
May 02, 2007
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the ‘Flight of the Earls’. We
examine the background to that major event in Irish history with a
series of historical articles.
April 27, 2007
It was women like Emma Groves and Annsie Wilkinson in many districts across the north
who provided grass-roots leadership, who helped their besieged
communities learn the skills they needed to survive.
April 21, 2007
Action Alert for Maghaberry prisoners
An action request from the US-based Irish Freedom Committee
on behalf of republican prisoners at Maghaberry prison.
April 15, 2007
The “forgotten women” of Irish history who participated in the 1916
Rising were remembered at the weekend.
April 10, 2007
Prominent republican and election candidate Gerry McGeough has been
released by the PSNI police on bail following a campaign to being
attention to his controversial arrest and detention earlier this month.
Martin Galvin looks at the case.
April 05, 2007
North needs a new political vocabulary
A sea change occurred on Monday when you watched Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley sitting
nearly beside each other at Stormont.
March 30, 2007
A ‘yes’ from ‘Dr No’ could usher in a new era
In a few days time the people of this country will know the answer to
one of the most pressing political questions which has dogged the peace
process for the best part of the last 10 years
March 24, 2007
The dream that new legislation would enshrine the rights of the thousands of Irish-speakers has been shattered.
March 18, 2007
A constituency-by-constituency look at the Assembly election result.
March 13, 2007
History: Election campaign fifty years ago
Four Sinn Féin candidates were elected in the general election which took place on March 5, 1957, fifty years ago this week.
March 07, 2007
SF Ard Fheis - Presidential Address 2007
The full text of the keynote Presidential address by
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams to the party’s annual conference, which
is taking place this weeekend at the RDS in Dublin.
March 03, 2007
Good election for SF will spur party
A good election result for Sinn Féin in the north will spur party activists on in
their efforts to achieve the long-worked-for breakthrough in the
elections in the south in a few months time.
March 01, 2007
A historical account of the background and context of the Bloody Sunday
massacre at Croke Park in 1920.
February 25, 2007
Statement by US Senator Barack Obama
US Presidential candidate Barack Obama has issued a statement
outlining his position the Irish peace process. We carry the full
text of the statement, which has been welcomed by a number of
Irish-American groups.
February 20, 2007
The full list of candidates in the Belfast Assembly election on 7 March.
February 15, 2007
The escape from Long Kesh of Francis McGuigan, 35 years ago this wee, was an important morale booster for the nationalist population
throughout the Six Counties.
February 10, 2007
Policing - a Republican Socialist view
Leading IRSP member Liam O Ruairc takes a critical look at the historic
decision by Sinn Féin to support the PSNI and the political context
which led to it.
February 05, 2007
As a response to armed insurrection in the North, the British
government down through the years initiated a campaign of mass murder
and a wider supporting criminality.
February 01, 2007
PSNI agent’s catalog of murder
Ten murders which, according to the Police Ombudsman’s report, are
so far confirmed to have involved PSNI/UVF agent Mark Haddock.
January 27, 2007
A public statement issued today by police Ombudsman Nuala
O’Loan into collusion between the RUC/PSNI Special Branch and
the north Belfast UVF.
January 22, 2007
Sinn Féin Ard Fheis motion on policing
The text of the key motion to go before the forthcoming special Sinn Fein conference.
January 17, 2007
Supporters of the 'Sava Tara' campaign are being asked to sign the online
‘National Monument of Ireland’ petition.
January 12, 2007
In Toome last week, the same pledge, principles and
patriotism which had always inspired him, moved Laurence O’Neill to defy a new
attempt to silence him.
January 08, 2007
IRA men’s deaths that caught whole country’s imagination
Sean South and Fergal O’Hanlon entered the realms of history and song
when an IRA raid on a County Fermanagh RUC barracks went dramatically
wrong 50 years ago this week.
January 04, 2007
A look back at the major events in Irish politics and the peace process over the past twelve months.
December 29, 2006
Christmas Eve - Escape from Long Kesh
Gerry Adams recounts a Christmas Eve plan to escape Long Kesh.
December 23, 2006
Families deserve judicial inquiry into collusion
There are many files in many filing cabinets in government offices in
Dublin, Belfast and London, containing reports into collusion arising
from enquiries.
December 18, 2006
An action alert was issued by the IAUC on the issue of
collusion following the publication of the report of the Cassel
panel on the issue.
December 13, 2006
There is a great deal at stake in the dock of the Belfast Diplock
courtroom.
December 07, 2006
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams and Willie Gallagher of the Irish
Republican Socialist Party this week presented their differing views
on the policing issue.
December 01, 2006
Adams address to transitional Assembly
The text of the address by Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams MP speaking
at Friday’s meeting of the transitional Assembly, when he nominated
Martin McGuinness for the position of Deputy First Minister.
November 25, 2006
Some republicans sowing seeds of confusion
The news at the start of this week that a tiny number of disaffected
former IRA personnel, members of the INLA and other micro groups, are
threatening the lives of Sinn Féin’s leadership is causing great anger
among republicans, disbelief among nationalists and is a source of deep
concern.
November 19, 2006
The full text of the President Address by Republican
Sinn Féin leader Ruairi O Bradaigh to his party’s annual Ard-Fheis in
Dublin at the weekend.
November 14, 2006
A question which won’t go away
A question haunts reports into collusion -- how high up the chain did
knowledge of and complicity in these atrocities go?
November 09, 2006
The first in a series of articles looking back at the history of Long
Kesh prison.
November 04, 2006
An extract from Lives Entangled, an essay by Bernadette McAliskey
included in Britain & Ireland: Lives Entwined II.
October 30, 2006
An action alert on behalf of the Irish Political
Status Coalition.
October 25, 2006
History of Whitewash Continues
The British have a long history of setting-up what are variously named
inquiries, commissions or tribunals as part of a blatant strategy of
whitewash or cover-up.
October 20, 2006
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said “bringing rejectionist unionism into the
peace process would be an enormous achievement”.
October 16, 2006
A great loss to cause of Ireland’s freedom
Michael Ferguson's death is a great loss not only to his family but to Sinn Féin and to
the cause of Ireland’s freedom.
October 10, 2006
A partial list of republican prisoners published earlier this month.
October 05, 2006
DNA and Diplock: A Recipe for Injustice
Fears are being voiced that “Birmingham Six” style justice is about
to be meted out to South Armagh Republican Sean Hoey, with suspect DNA
evidence being the lynchpin of the framework.
September 30, 2006
Hunger strike message echoes down the years
The prisoners died but a generation later as one contributor describes
it, “....they shine a light that is purer than ever and that points a
steady beam to our future”.
September 25, 2006
Equality - the rhetoric and the reality
A new report by the Belfast-based civil liberties group, the Committee
on the Administration of Justice (CAJ), has criticised the British
government's sectarian approach to targeting social need.
September 19, 2006
A summary of Sinn Féin’s new all-Ireland policy
document on healthcare.
September 15, 2006
Irish process is template for peace worldwide
Gerry Adams has brought a message of hope to the
Israeli and Palestinian people.
September 10, 2006
Relatives of bomb victims need to know truth
Even if the involvement of British intelligence is
proven in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, it may still be kept secret.
September 05, 2006
An urgent action alert is being distributed by a number of
Irish-American organisations.
August 31, 2006
Partition is alive and well in Ireland.
August 27, 2006
The tenth and final hunger striker to die in the 1981 hunger strike
was Mickey Devine. He died 25 years ago on Sunday.
August 22, 2006
Famine tale uncovers common Irish ancestry
A little known shipping disaster which claimed the lives of almost 50
people from south Armagh during the Famine has inspired a new book.
August 18, 2006
Alert - US/UK Extradition Treaty
An action alert for US readers from the IAUC.
August 13, 2006
The story of the ninth hunger strike to die in the 1981 hunger strike.
He passed away on August 8th, 1981.
August 10, 2006
A dedicated republican and an outstanding soldier
The story of Kieran Doherty, the eighth hunger striker to die in 1981,
who passed away 25 years ago on Wednesday.
August 05, 2006
The story of INLA Volunteer Kevin Lynch, who died on hunger strike in
Long Kesh prison 25 years ago on Tuesday.
July 31, 2006
The full text of a wide-ranging address delivered by Martin McGuinness to the
MacGill Summer School at the weekend.
July 25, 2006
There is a historical precedent of “sexing up” a document, one that had major implications for subsequent relations between Ireland and England.
July 20, 2006
Founded on and fuelled by bigotry
There are at least three ways of looking at last week’s Twelfth
celebrations.
July 17, 2006
Joe McDonnell and Martin Hurson
This week marks the 25th anniversary of the death of two IRA Volunteers
on hunger strike in Long Kesh jail.
July 12, 2006
An experiment in human despair
Jonathan Cook on the real reasons for Israel’s invasion of Gaza.
July 07, 2006
Observe the true amnesiacs marching towards the Somme
The first 26-County commemoration of the Battle of the Somme was held
in Dublin at the weekend, with representatives from all the major
political parties in the North in attendance.
July 02, 2006
The Framing of Michael McKevitt
The Framing of Michael McKevitt, a booklet written by Marcella Sands,
sister-in-law of Michael and sister of Bobby Sands, raises serious
questions about the activities of MI5 in Ireland, collusion by senior
Garda police and a judiciary swayed by political rather than legal
argument.
June 27, 2006
The text of Sinn Fein’s annual address over the grave
of Wolfe Tone at Bodenstown. County Kildare. It was delivered at the
weekend by north belfast representative Gerry Kelly.
June 22, 2006
‘The Wind That Shakes The Barley’
There is a very simple yet powerful and time honoured message in Ken
Loach’s new film about the Irish people’s struggle for independence.
June 22, 2006
Rural decline is a national crisis
The following is the full text of the Michael Davitt Centenary Lecture,
given by Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams in Castlebar, County Mayo on
Thursday.
June 17, 2006
Hunger strike deal didn’t exist
Richard O'Rawe's own words show clearly there was no deal during the 1981 hunger strike.
June 11, 2006
Memorial for an island at peace
Long Kesh is a place apart. Inside and outside its walls it generated
great pain, loss and heroism.
June 06, 2006
Out of the H-blocks came determination
The hunger strike changed the nationalist community forever.
May 30, 2006
Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O’Hara
This week marked the 25th anniversary of the deaths of the third and
fourth of the 1981 hunger strikers to die, Raymond McCreesh and Patsy
O'Hara.
May 27, 2006
Ian Paisley will be conscious of the irony involved in Sinn Fein
going to Stormont to have him elected as First Minister.
May 23, 2006
Bombing victims’ relatives need answers now
Today is a day many people recall with feelings of sadness and anger
as well as a strong desire for the truth.
May 17, 2006
Francis Hughes - a fearless soldier
Twenty five years ago on Friday, Francis Hughes, one of the most fearless
and courageous IRA Volunteers to emerge out of the current phase in the
Republican Struggle, lost his life after 59 days on Hunger Strike in
Long Kesh.
May 13, 2006
Action alerts on behalf the mcAllister family and the Rossport Five
May 08, 2006
Bobby Sands died 25 years ago today, the first of ten to die while on
hunger strike against the British policy of criminalising the
republican struggle. It is a day of mourning for all Irish republicans.
May 05, 2006
The victims group An Fhirinne is appealing to the families of people who
were victims of British state killings or collusion to help complete its database.
May 03, 2006
May 2006 marks the centenary of the death of Michael Davitt,
nationalist, trade unionist, agrarian agitator and founder of the
National Land League.
April 28, 2006
Gerry Kelly spoke on Sunday
at the annual Crossbarry commemoration, remembering the British Army
operation of 1921 which set out to eliminate Tom Barry’s famous Third
West Cork Flying column.
April 24, 2006
We shall benefit from the work Siobhan O'Hanlon did in her life - in the freedom
struggle, in the peace process, in the bridges she built.
April 21, 2006
Proclamation at ‘heart and soul’ of republic
An edited version of the address by Sinn Féin’s Gerry
Adams at the annual Easter commemoration in Belfast.
April 18, 2006
Just before noon on Easter Monday, April 24th, a group of 150 men
strode out of Liberty Hall in Dublin, then marched toward Sackville
Street (now O’Connell Street) a few hundred yards away.
April 14, 2006
A possible end to the political impasse
For the first time this week the notion of a ‘Plan B’ emerged.
April 09, 2006
A review of the new book, 'The Origins and Organisation of British Propaganda in Ireland 1920', by
Brian P Murphy.
April 05, 2006
A republican who could not be bought
A historian is aiming to rediscover the story of an Irishwoman whose
courage saved the leaders of a rebellion in 1803.
April 03, 2006