During the years of Franco’s dictatorship, Catalonia was one
of Spain’s strongholds of resistance, and the Catalan people suffered
enormously for it.
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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
The response of the people of Catalonia to the violence of the Spanish
state was astonishing and I want to commend their bravery.
Published October 7, 2017
The crisis of the Spanish state
Ahead of the October 1 referendum on self-determination, the Spanish
government is engaged in a level of political repression in Catalonia
not experienced since the days of the Franco dictatorship.
Published September 30, 2017
A prisoner’s final and most terrifying weapon
The oration delivered by Tommy McKearney, a former Hunger
Striker, over the grave of Thomas Ashe at the national hunger strike
commemoration of the 1916 Societies.
Published September 30, 2017
A look at an infamous event in the Tan War in County Dublin, 97 years
ago this week.
Published September 23, 2017
Republican politics must be relevant
The text of the oration delivered by Francis Mackey (pictured) of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement
at the graveside of Alan Ryan earlier this month.
Published September 16, 2017
The Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) has said it is supporting a
‘border poll’ on unity as part of a new campaign for a United Ireland
outside of the EU. An extract from its new policy
document, ‘Britain out of Ireland - Ireland out of the EU’.
Published September 9, 2017
IRA Volunteer Tom Williams was hanged at age 19 by the British on 2
September 1942, 75 years ago today.
Published September 2, 2017
The most audacious Australian prison break
The most successful prison break in Australian history was an
international rescue effort that took years to organise, and which
finally freed six Irish republicans from a British jail in Fremantle.
Published August 26, 2017
India’s partition: The British game of ‘divide and rule’
Seventy years after the partition of India, it is hard to look back without horror at the
savagery of the country’s vivisection.
Published August 19, 2017
For years the nationalist majority of Derry had suffered a unionist
gerrymander of the city which left many Catholics living in slum
conditions.
Published August 12, 2017
‘Uniting Ireland and its People in Peace and Prosperity’
An abridged introduction to this week’s report of Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement and a summary of its recommendations.
Published August 5, 2017
The RUC and its deadly legacy in Sri Lanka
A Tamil widow who says 10 of her relatives were massacred by Sri Lanka’s
police in 1986 has lodged a complaint with the Police Ombudsman in the
North after links from the RUC (now PSNI) to the country’s security
forces emerged.
Published July 29, 2017
A look at the evolution of internment, from a speech delivered by
National PRO of Republican Network for Unity, Nathan Stuart, at a picket
organised by the Anti-Internment Group For Ireland (AIGI).
Published July 15, 2017
Michael Collins and the killing of a Field-Marshall
The IRA assassination of British Field-Marshall Henry Wilson, 95 years
ago this week, was a turning point in Irish history, writes Rob Baker
Published July 1, 2017
Solidarity through the centuries
A simple act of kindness 170 years ago by an Oklahoma Indian tribe was
celebrated in County Cork this week.
Published June 24, 2017
Advancing towards Irish Unity - in the United Irish tradition
Sinn Fein chairperson Declan Kearney delivered the keynote address to the party’s annual Wolfe
Tone commemoration in Bodenstown last Sunday.
Published June 24, 2017
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