A historical account of an incident in which the RIC opened fire on a crowd of hungry Ennis people as local food produce was being exported by landlords.
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A historical account of an incident in which the RIC opened fire on a crowd of hungry Ennis people as local food produce was being exported by landlords.
Published February 28, 2020
A police chief interfering in a country’s electoral process is something
we have come to expect – but usually in Third World dictatorships.
Published February 28, 2020
An essay originally written by Bobby Sands in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh
in 1979.
Published February 21, 2020
An analysis of the outcome of the general election and the current political
dynamic in the 26 Counties by Ruairi Creaney.
Published February 21, 2020
Unionist jitters after Sinn Féin success
Regardless of when or whether Sinn Féin ends up in government, as Tony Blair’s former adviser Jonathan Powell says, the outcome of the election will make demands for movement on Irish unity stronger.
Published February 14, 2020
This state was founded by those who fought for Irish Independence between 1919 and
1921 and it would be bizzare if this state were to commemorate those who
fought to suppress it’s establishment.
Published January 10, 2020
Government u-turn a victory for people power
The Government must go beyond deferral and scrap any plan now or in the
future to commemorate the role of the RIC and the DMP. The shallowness
and opportunism of their position on these events has been exposed. So
has the posturing of the Fianna Fáil Leader.
Published January 10, 2020
Papers show need for inquiry into my father’s murder
Michael Finucane, the eldest son of Pat Finucane and a practising lawyer
based in Dublin, on his response to revelations about the murder in
declassified papers.
Published January 3, 2020
Unionists punished the DUP for extreme Brexit plan
A lot of emphasis on the fact that, after Thursday’s election, for the
first time there are more nationalist MPs than unionist; Sinn Féin and
the SDLP outnumber the DUP 9-8.
Published December 14, 2019
Polls on Irish unity are only heading in one direction
Unless you have been living under a rock, you can’t but have noticed
that the prospect of Irish reunification has been gaining ground these
past three years.
Published November 30, 2019
The following is the address by Saoradh chairperson Brian Kenna to the
party’s annual conference in Newry last weekend.
Published November 16, 2019
When Stormont’s credibility went up in flames
A review by Rory Carroll of ‘Burned - The inside story of the ‘cash for
ash’ scandal and Northern Ireland’s secretive new elite’, by Sam McBride.
Published November 16, 2019
The first shoot-to-kill victims
On the night of 11 November 1982, two young IRA volunteers, Eugene Toman
and Sean Burns were sitting in another volunteer, Gervais McKerr’s house
in Lurgan, County Armagh, drinking tea, and waiting for a lift to a safe
house. The atmosphere was friendly and relaxed, according to a girl in
the McKerr house that night, with the lads joking as usual and enjoying
the company. Within a few hours, the three volunteers would be dead,
the first victims of an horrific shoot-to-kill policy by the RUC.
Published November 9, 2019
A hundred years ago this week, as it was struggling to suppress
Ireland’s fight for freedom, the British war cabinet first endorsed a
unionist proposal for setting up two devolved parliaments - one in
Dublin and one in Belfast. Historian Cormac Moore looks at the
background to Britain’s partition of Ireland.
Published November 2, 2019
Economic boundaries and deep-seated fears
Are the DUP right when they say that a border in the Irish Sea is a
serious threat to the union?
Published November 2, 2019
Key independence figure denied pension and medal
The editor of the Irish Bulletin, Kathleen Mary Napoli, was so involved
in the War of Independence that she accompanied the treaty delegation to
London. But she was informed she was not eligible for an IRA pension
because she was not officially a member of the organisation.
Published October 26, 2019
Máire Drumm; leader and visionary
Máire was one of the most courageous and
visionary leaders Irish Republicanism has ever had, Gerry Adams writes.
Published October 26, 2019
This week marks the end of the 1981 hunger strike, in which ten
republican prisoners laid down their lives against the criminalisation
of their struggle for Irish freedom. The first hunger striker to die,
Bobby Sands, described the conditions inside the H-Blocks of Long Kesh
prison in September 1978.
Published October 5, 2019
What is the big sticking point on Boris’s Big Deal (BBD)? That’s easy –
he’s for putting in place customs checks/posts/huts/whatever you’re
having yourself.
Published October 5, 2019
Celebrating 100 years of partition?
Three months ago, during the July marches and rallies by the Orange
Order, the DUP declared that the centenary of the northern state in 2021
should be a public holiday and a source of celebration.
Published September 28, 2019
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