With many governments still failing to acknowledge it, including those
in Dublin and London, we present a brief history of the Armenian
genocide, one hundred years ago today.
Published April 25, 2015
There was an extraordinary number and diversity of Easter commemorations
this year as many organisations, republican and otherwise, held events
with a view to the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising next year.
Published April 11, 2015
A selection of the speeches and orations delivered at the 2015 Easter
commemorations.
Published April 11, 2015
The second in a two-part historical feature on the 1916 Easter Rising.
Published April 4, 2015
A round up of Easter commemorative events by republican organisations this
year. Please check locally for more information. UPDATED April 3rd.
Published March 28, 2015
From the foundation of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) to the
fateful days of Easter 1916, when Irish Volunteers took to the streets
to fight for our freedom. The first in a two-part historical feature.
Published March 28, 2015
A researcher at Amnesty International recalls Gerry McKerr, one of the Hooded Men, who passed away this week as his case against torture continues before the European Court of Human Rights.
Published March 21, 2015
Laws stating that Queen Elizabeth is the king of Ireland and that anyone
selling horses outside greater Dublin shall die are to be repealed, the
Dublin government has announced.
Published March 14, 2015
Hanna
Sheehy-Skeffington devoted most of her life to campaigning for the
rights of women and Ireland’s independence.
Published March 7, 2015
On open letter by blogger Ciaran Tierney on last weekend’s hostile live
television interview of Paul Murphy TD by Ryan Tubridy, presenter of
the Irish state broadcaster’s main light entertainment programme, the
Late Late show.
Published February 28, 2015
The family and friends of a South Armagh man have condemned his continued
imprisonment pending a possible prosecution in regard to the 1998 Omagh
bomb attack.
Published February 21, 2015
A new mural calling for people to join the UDA was recently painted in
Carrickfergus, County Antrim, prompting fears that the unionist
paramilitary group is again recruiting.
Published February 14, 2015
A campaign to change the way the tragic events of 1845-1850 are recounted.
Published February 7, 2015
The address by Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness to his party’s Six-County
AGM in Omagh last weekend.
Published January 31, 2015
The Bloody Sunday March for Justice programme will see a raft of civil
rights events and speeches held in Derry. This year’s programme of
events has been themed ‘Resist’.
Published January 24, 2015
An open letter written by miscarriage of justice victims Brendan
McConville and John-Paul Wootton, followed by a recent synopsis of the
case.
Published January 24, 2015
A group of concerned individuals has established “Reclaim the Vision of
1916--A Citizens’ Initiative for 2016,” in order to reassert the
political principles and objectives that animated the 1916 Rising and to
show their continuing relevance for Ireland today.
Published January 10, 2015
There was news this week that the prosecution of former RUC members over
their abuses of nationalist youths in the original ‘Derry Four’ case has been
inexplicably dropped, following communications between Crown prosecutors
and the Police Ombudsman. In this article, Martin Galvin looks back at a
notorious episode in policing in the North.
Published December 20, 2014
Like many Irish people, I wonder how I could have studied a language for
13 years, and, in my head, find nothing but a few straggling nouns and
the sense of dread that I carried into the classroom each day.
Published December 13, 2014
Declassified British government documents relating to a secret
‘interrogation centre’ were released to the press in August 2013 and one
of those hooded, beaten and subjected to brutal psychological
‘techniques’ then told his story.
Published December 6, 2014
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