The British Empire is a bit like the Cheshire cat in Lewis Carroll’s
Alice in Wonderland: over the years it has faded until all you’re left
with is a bland smile.
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The Cheshire Cat called Commonwealth
The British Empire is a bit like the Cheshire cat in Lewis Carroll’s
Alice in Wonderland: over the years it has faded until all you’re left
with is a bland smile.
Published April 28, 2018
Sean McNeela and Tony D’Arcy died on hunger strike against the
criminalisation of republican prisoners at St Bricin’s Military
Hospital in Dublin, 78 years ago this week.
Published April 21, 2018
The Proclamation and William Henry West
Another story of the many from the Easter Rising of 1916 -- the English
protestant printer who supplied the type for the Irish Proclamation.
Published March 31, 2018
Martin McGuinness - Looking to the future
Martin McGuinness was a good friend and a great leader. He made
compromises where he believed they could help peace and reconciliation.
He never stopped taking risks for peace, writes Gerry Adams.
Published March 24, 2018
On the 30th anniversary of IRA Volunteers Mairead Farrell, Sean Savage
and Dan McCann, murdered by the SAS in a shoot to kill operation on 6th
March 1988 in Gibraltar, Saoradh activist and former IRA POW Breige-Anne
McCaughley shares her memories of Volunteer Mairead Farrell.
Published March 10, 2018
The real Leo Varadkar was the one who stood up in the Dail last Tuesday
and the public would do well to remember that when his party comes
looking for votes in the near future.
Published March 3, 2018
No-one admits to being a bigot
The collapse of talks to restore the power sharing arrangement in
the North of Ireland has come as no surprise to many.
Published February 24, 2018
Contrasting views of the North’s Civil Rights Association and how it
relates to where we are as we approach the 50th anniversary of its first
campaign.
Published February 10, 2018
I’m sure that there is a little nervousness within Sinn Fein as Gerry
Adams steps down as president of the party, having led it to great
electoral success across Ireland, and having been, along with the late
Martin McGuinness, at the forefront of the republican struggle for
decades.
Published February 10, 2018
Inquiries, ‘collusion’ and seeking truth
If the NI Retired Police
Officers’ Association wins on Loughinisland, it will have succeeded in closing down an
important official source of information about alleged collusion and its
scale, small or large. John Ware looks at a crucial upcoming ruling.
Published January 13, 2018
It’s time for a united Ireland
At last it’s becoming clear to the Brexiteers, and the right-wing
British media, that the question of the Irish border will be the
defining issue of the Brexit negotiations.
Published December 2, 2017
150 years on from their execution, a historical look back at three
Fenians whose bravery in giving their lives in struggle helped to
sustain it.
Published November 25, 2017
The Rohingya are often described as “the world’s most persecuted
minority”.
Published November 18, 2017
Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney exposes the collusion which
shielded the perpetrators of the 1994 Loughinisland massacre from
justice. The shocking No Stone Unturned finally names the chief suspects
while revealing the RUC’s deliberate mishandling of the multiple murder
inquiry.
Published November 18, 2017
Frank Stagg who died on hunger strike aged 33, had three funerals and
two burials. One funeral had no body and one burial was done in
darkness. His life is commemorated on three headstones in Leigue
Cemetery, Ballina, County Mayo.
Published November 11, 2017
The racist worldview of Arthur Balfour
Arthur James Balfour will, no doubt, be praised effusively by supporters
of Israel for a brief document he signed 100 years ago.
Published November 4, 2017
Why we need to support Catalonia
During the years of Franco’s dictatorship, Catalonia was one
of Spain’s strongholds of resistance, and the Catalan people suffered
enormously for it.
Published October 28, 2017
Sheena Campbell and a hurricane of pain
Twenty-five years ago, Sheena Campbell, then a 29-year-old law
student at Queen’s University, was shot dead by a UVF gang.
Published October 21, 2017
An open letter to the Irish people from Portlaoise jail by republican
political prisoner DD McLaughlin.
Published October 14, 2017
The Society of United Irishmen, founded in 1791, embraced Catholics,
Protestants and Dissenters in its aim to remove English control from
Irish affairs.
Published October 14, 2017
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