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.
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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
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
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