The story of two IRA men who were tortured and killed by British forces,
96 years ago this week.
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William Shanahan and Michael McNamara
The story of two IRA men who were tortured and killed by British forces,
96 years ago this week.
Published December 17, 2016
Remember republican prisoners at Christmas
December is the month when thoughts are traditionally with Irish
republican prisoners, and vigils have been taking place in their honour.
The following is a recent list of those who are supported by the two
largest Irish republican prisoner welfare organisations, underneath their
addresses.
Published December 10, 2016
Fidel was a friend to those engaged in the struggle for justice across
the world.
Published December 3, 2016
Presidential Address to RSF Ard Fheis
The full text of the address by RSF President Des Dalton to the 2016 Republican Sinn Fein Ard Fheis.
Published December 3, 2016
A look at the life and legacy of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, by French
author and historian Salim Lamran
Published November 26, 2016
A big arms find in UDA’s Belfast HQ in 1981 proved embarrassing for a
British government resisting calls to outlaw the group but trying to
appear even-handed. An extract from ‘A State in Denial: The British
Government and Loyalist Paramilitaries’ by Margaret Urwin.
Published November 19, 2016
The Black and Tan War - nine things to know
A few snippets about the Tan War, or Irish War of Independence, which ran from January 1919 to July 1921, when the IRA first took on the
British constabulary and army forces.
Published November 19, 2016
On the 45th anniversary of the escape from Crumlin Road Jail by the
‘Crumlin Kangaroos’, an extract from ‘Internment’ by the late John
McGuffin on an extraordinary chapter in the republican struggle.
Published November 12, 2016
The daughter of a prominent republican shot dead in her hospital bed by
loyalists 40 years ago has said she wants to know who gave the order to
have her killed.
Published October 29, 2016
Thomas Russell, United Irishman
Thomas Russell spent a year promoting the
United Irish cause in Ulster among Presbyterians and
Catholics, becoming legendary as
“the man from God-knows-where”.
Published October 29, 2016
The campaign against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) at Standing
Rock Sioux reservation is a true symbol of unity and a defiance of
corporate interests being put before the people and the planet.
Published October 22, 2016
‘We are the authors of this struggle’
The oration delivered by Francie Mackey, chairman of the Irish
Republican Prisoners Welfare Association, at the Hunger Strike
commemoration in Duleek organised by the Duleek Hunger Strike Monument
Committee on Saturday, 17th September.
Published October 8, 2016
The murder of Volunteer Diarmuid O’Neill
On September 23 1996, IRA volunteer Diarmuid O’Neill was shot dead
during an arrest operation by armed members of the Metropolitan Police
in Hammersmith, London, England.
Published October 1, 2016
An extract fro a new book examining
Britain’s record of covert government actions and cover-ups.
Published September 24, 2016
The women’s hunger strike, Armagh 1943
In 1943, the women interned by the northern government in Armagh Prison
went on hunger strike over their status and conditions in the jail.
Published September 17, 2016
Jimmy Gralton, Leitrim’s feared radical
President Michael D Higgins has said that an apology is due to Jimmy
Gralton, the only Irish person deported by an Irish government.
Published September 10, 2016
The Battle of Antrim and its relevance today
A look at the 1798 battle between British troops and Irish rebels led by
Henry Joy McCracken, as delivered at his annual commemoration last
weekend by RNU Vice-Chairperson Nathan Stuart
Published September 3, 2016
Former H3 blanketman Thomas Dixie Elliott gives his view of the
exchanges that took place inside Long Kesh as negotiations were taking
place to try to end the 1981 hunger strike.
Published September 3, 2016
Bittersweet ceremony unites tragic Ballymurphy family
A priest has spoken about God’s “perfect timing” after he officiated at
the joint funeral mass of a man murdered by British soldiers and the
wife who campaigned in his memory, despite them dying exactly 45 years
apart.
Published August 27, 2016
Michael Devine, known to his friends as Micky, died 35 years ago this
week after 60 days on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. A look
back at a life of struggle and a heroic death.
Published August 20, 2016
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