A struggle to free Ireland of foreign domination resulted in a heroic
victory -- but the death of a great Irish leader -- a thousand years
ago this week.
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A struggle to free Ireland of foreign domination resulted in a heroic
victory -- but the death of a great Irish leader -- a thousand years
ago this week.
Published April 19, 2014
Five things we know after last night in Windsor
Relations between Britain and Ireland have now
entered the realm of the surreal.
Published April 11, 2014
The revolutionary women’s movement, Cumann na mBan, was set up 100 years
ago this week. It maintained the struggle for independence following the
Easter Rising and in 1921 became the first organisation to reject the
treaty which partitioned Ireland. A look at their stand
for equality and unity.
Published April 5, 2014
79-year-old Irish peace activist Margaretta D’Arcy’s was this week
released from prison, after serving a three month sentence for
protesting the use of Shannon Airport by those engaged in war crimes.
Published March 29, 2014
Govts turning backs on innocent Irish people
Gerry Conlon and Paddy Hill, two men who suffered among the worst
miscarriages of justice in British history have accused the Irish and
British governments of turning their backs on innocent people sent to
prison.
Published March 22, 2014
Seventy-one years ago Derry republican Hugh McAteer pulled off a series
of daring feats and in the process made headlines around the world.
Michael McMonagle looks at his extraordinary life.
Published March 22, 2014
Former British cabinet minister and lifelong radical Tony Benn died
today [Friday] at the age of 88.
Published March 15, 2014
Indomitable spirit of hunger striker lives on
There are events in one’s life, big and small, which are life-defining
and life-shaping, even though at the time you might not know it.
Meeting Bobby Sands for the first time became for me life-defining.
Published March 15, 2014
Murney describes Maghaberry horror
Eirigi press officer Stephen Murney has given an account of the
physical and mental torture he endured while interned at Maghaberry
prison, outside Lisburn over the past 14 months.
Published March 8, 2014
“We broke Armagh, it never broke us”
The reflections of a group of republican women ex-prisoners and the
trauma, emotional and physical, that many of these women suffered and
overcame during their time in prison.
Published March 8, 2014
As preliminary hearings into his inquest get underway, a look at the
murder of Sam Marshall, a close friend of veteran Irish Republican Colin
Duffy, which took place 24 years ago this week, and the efforts of
assassinated human rights lawyer Rosemary Nelson to pursue justice in
the case.
Published March 1, 2014
The Basque armed group ETA has made a significant step towards
decommissioning the weapons used in its campaign for independence and
freedom -- but the Spanish government immediately rejected the move.
Published February 21, 2014
Geraldine Finucane ‘determined, not angry’
The widow of Pat Finucane has said she believes the full truth behind
his murder has yet to be exposed - but when it is, it will affect other
families.
Published February 15, 2014
Removing barriers to reconciliation
In an address to the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis this [Friday] evening, Declan
Kearney examines the state of the political process in the north of
Ireland.
Published February 7, 2014
Breandan Mac Cionnaith, general secretary of eirigi, sets out his
party’s views on the conflict in the Six Counties and the challenge to
republicanism.
Published February 7, 2014
Despite the report of the Saville Inquiry in 2010, Eamonn McCann doesn’t
believe that the British have told the whole truth about Bloody Sunday.
Published January 31, 2014
Stories of ordinary volunteers in the Easter Rising
A new collection of personal stories contained in the Military Service
Pensions Collection has now been published online.
Published January 17, 2014
Bloody Sunday March for Justice 2014
A look at the background and current context of this year’s Bloody
Sunday March for Justice, which will mark the anniversary of a massacre
in which 14 civil rights protestors were shot dead by the British Army.
Published January 11, 2014
As politicians examine the issue of flags and symbols, a look at the
Gal Greine or Sunburst Flag (Banner), one of the few symbols that can
claim to have authentic native Irish roots.
Published January 4, 2014
A round-up of the statements issued at the turn of the New Year by
various republican groups.
Published January 4, 2014
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