Former IRA Chief of Staff John Joe McGirl passed away 36 years ago this
year, but recently some establishment figures have been calling for the
annual commemoration in Ballinamore to be ‘cancelled’. Next week brings the 30th
anniversary event in honour of a man who dedicated his life to defying
British rule in Ireland.
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Former IRA Chief of Staff John Joe McGirl passed away 36 years ago this
year, but recently some establishment figures have been calling for the
annual commemoration in Ballinamore to be ‘cancelled’. Next week brings the 30th
anniversary event in honour of a man who dedicated his life to defying
British rule in Ireland.
Published August 8, 2024
Loyalist culture wars in East Belfast
As continuing hoax bomb attacks on a Gaelic sports club in the area
prove, Irish culture is under constant attack in east Belfast. Now
tensions are rising ahead of the arrivals of pupils to an Irish language
school in the area.
Published August 8, 2024
Take it down from the mast, Irish fascists
When far right protestors in Coolock use the imagery and words of Bobby
Sands, I ask myself if have they read the poem which spoke of how “the
inner thing” has “withstood the blows of a million years”?
Published August 1, 2024
Israel strikes five schools in week of massacres
While the worlds’ attention was diverted by the attempted
assassination of Donald Trump, Israeli forces have been attacking
schools including a UN-run school in Nuseirat camp, where they killed 17
and wounded about 80, mostly women and children. A report by al-Jazeera.
Published July 18, 2024
Martin Hurson became the sixth republican to die on hunger strike this
week in 1981. In this archive article by Connla Young for Daily Ireland,
his fiancee recalls the place where the couple grew up.
Published July 11, 2024
Changing electoral map shows need for border poll criteria
By Sinn Féin retaining
its seven seats and the DUP losing three of its eight, another historic
electoral milestone was reached.
Published July 11, 2024
The British Army’s rape of Kenya
The British Army trains in Kenya. Many women say soldiers raped them and
abandoned children they fathered. A report by Larry Madowo (for CNN)
Published July 4, 2024
Julian Assange is free, but media smears continue
Even as Julian Assange has been reunited with his family following a
deal with the US government, the BBC and others in the media are
peddling the same long-discredited lies. By Jonathan Cook (for
Declassified UK).
Published June 27, 2024
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) made an audacious raid on Gough
Barracks in Armagh town on June 12, 1954, sixty years ago this week. It
marked the reawakening of IRA activity in Ireland and a
re-arming that leads eventually to the 1956-1962 Border Campaign.
Published June 13, 2024
Only months for Sinn Féin to find answers
The council and Euro elections in the south were in some ways uncannily
like those in 2019, but in other ways different.
Published June 13, 2024
A tribute to Michael Gaughan, who died on hunger strike in Parkhurst Prison in London, fifty years ago this week.
Published June 6, 2024
Goodbye and good riddance to our Brexit hard men
They imposed Brexit on the north, which the majority of people
opposed, because neither of them knew anything about Ireland and cared
less about the consequences.
Published June 6, 2024
Details of 1921 Derry prison break unearthed
A recently unearthed document provides a valuable insight into Derry’s
history. By Seamus McKinney (for the Irish News)
Published May 30, 2024
The collective amnesia over the Dublin-Monaghan bombings
The Dublin-Monaghan bombings directly affected thousands of people, not
just the relatives of the 33 people and an unborn baby who were killed,
but the hundreds injured and their families.
Published May 23, 2024
Conservative and right wing elements are exploiting the
issue of asylum seekers and immigrants or race to advance their own
agenda.
Published May 23, 2024
The family of an Armagh teenager shot dead by a British state agent say
their campaign for justice won’t be stopped. “We know the truth; what we
want is for it to be recorded, set down in history, that this man killed
Gavin.”
Published May 16, 2024
Remembering the forgotten victims of Dublin and Monaghan
The Dublin and Monaghan car bombings were the single biggest atrocity of the conflict committed in one day.
Last Friday a new documentary film on the massacre opened in Dublin.
Published May 16, 2024
Immigration and border tensions make Unity more urgent
The May 2024 local election results in England have confirmed what the
opinion polls have suggested for the past year. The Conservatives are
destined to lose the next UK General Election. But their actions for the
remainder of their time in government can still have an impact on both
Britain and Ireland.
Published May 9, 2024
There cannot be an official history of the Troubles
There was a revealing spat last week between the NIO and academic
historians about the British government’s plans to bowdlerise the
original historical archival proposals in the Stormont House Agreement
(SHA) on legacy
Published May 9, 2024
The opportunity for a new beginning
As former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson was mobbed by a media scrum
outside Newry Courthouse following a first court hearing of shock sex
crime charges dating back to 1985, DUP interim leader Gavin Robinson has
been appealing for unionist unity. Unionism can use the current crisis
to plan for the future.
Published April 25, 2024
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