Springhill is often regarded as the ‘forgotten massacre’, having
received very little coverage in the mainstream media, but the people of
West Belfast have never forgotten.
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Springhill – ‘the forgotten massacre’
Springhill is often regarded as the ‘forgotten massacre’, having
received very little coverage in the mainstream media, but the people of
West Belfast have never forgotten.
Published June 19, 2021
One of the most important battles during the Irish War of Independence
took place 100 years ago this week. A look at a famous episode in Mayo
history.
Published June 12, 2021
Time for Boris Johnson to stop playing the fool
It’s somewhat stating the obvious but Joe Biden is not some angry
councillor who phones his local paper every week in order to boost his
profile.
Published June 12, 2021
A couple of weeks ago you read here that electing Poots leader would hasten the demise of the DUP.
Published June 5, 2021
Ballymurphy - A conspiracy of cover-up
The reality is that the Coroner’s conclusions in the Ballymurphy case will not have surprised the security mandarins that run the British system. Every government, Conservative and Labour, has known the truth of these events since they first occurred.
Published May 29, 2021
The final days of Patsy O’Hara
INLA Volunteer, Patsy O’Hara was one of three INLA Volunteers who died whilst on Hunger Strike, along with the seven Volunteers from the IRA. Patsy survived 61 days on hunger strike from 21 March 1981 until 21 May 1981 when he died, 40 years ago this week.
Published May 22, 2021
The blanket men and a man from America
It was the desperate plight of prisoners In the North of Ireland and the death of Bobby Sands that took me 3000 miles across the Atlantic to meet the Elliott family, whose ancestors long ago had left Derry and settled in the USA.
Published May 15, 2021
Why can’t the EU say the word apartheid?
Human Rights Watch has issued a landmark report concluding that Israel commits the crimes of apartheid and persecution against the Palestinian people.
Published May 8, 2021
New DUP will bring down Stormont
The four letters circulating against DUP leader Arlene Foster are four different versions of the same suicide note.
Published April 30, 2021
Are British soldiers above the law for Irish murders?
Boris Johnson has told the British parliament final
preparations were being made to a draft bill that would in effect
provide protection from prosecution for British soldiers that served in
the North of Ireland.
Published April 24, 2021
Unionists have failed to stop progress
There’s one aspect of the chronically defective unionist leadership through the decades that you have to admit: consistency.
Published April 17, 2021
Bobby Sands’ victory in Fermanagh and South Tyrone 40 years ago this week gave the republican movement a “victory that not even countless IRA military operations could have achieved”, according to a former prisoner in the H-Blocks.
Published April 10, 2021
Commentator Joe Brolly has responded to RTE’s controversial effort to silence him during a TV
debate on a united Ireland.
Published April 2, 2021
We must talk about referendums more, not less
There is almost an unwillingness to contemplate asking people to make a choice in a border poll, combined with a worry about the implications.
Published March 27, 2021
Crossbarry – a major victory for the IRA
The success of Tom Barry’s flying column plagued British forces and posed a serious and consistent threat to the authorities in West Cork. A historical account of the Crossbarry ambush, 100 years ago this week.
Published March 20, 2021
Ireland’s misfortune to have Micheál Martin in charge
A leader with vision would be acting now to promote a managed reworking of the constitutional arrangements in these islands.
Published March 20, 2021
‘The Two Brendans’ — Moley And Burns
In South Armagh Republican folklore, the lives and tragic deaths of two young Irishmen will be forever intertwined, with the names of Brendan Moley and Brendan Burns — ‘The Two Brendans’ as they are popularly remembered — writ large into the story of the struggle for a sovereign and free Ireland.
Published March 6, 2021
Anti-Irish bigotry in Britain has not gone away
Where elements of the British press have gone out of their way to pay lip service to the historical wrongs committed against other minority groups, Ireland remains a peculiar blind spot.
Published March 6, 2021
Bobby Sands’ Hunger Strike Diary
Published March 1, 2021
Unionists selling supporters a false prospectus
Who said this? Johnson’s Withdrawal Agreement which established an Irish Sea border is “a great step forward and is fully in accordance within the spirit of the Good Friday Agreement.” David Trimble. That was October 2019.
Published February 27, 2021
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