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1980 hunger strike remembered

The 27th of October is a very important date in modern Irish history as it marks the beginning of the 1980 hunger strike - a period that some appear to want to forget.

Published October 30, 2025

The assassination of Máire Drumm

Forty-nine years ago this week loyalist gunmen, posing as doctors, walked onto the ward of the Mater Hospital and shot dead the former vice-president of Sinn Féin Máire Drumm as she recovered from eye surgery.

Published October 30, 2025

Eamonn Ceannt

Eamonn Ceannt, born in Ballymoe, County Galway in 1881, would become one of the seven signatories of the proclamation of the Easter Rising. A short biograph, by Colm Wallace.

Published October 23, 2025

‘The next one is for you’

A new book by Ali Watkins, is a gripping account of how a group of working class Irish-Americans in Philadelphia procured and shipped weapons to the Provisional IRA in the early 1970s.

Published October 23, 2025

Belfast has changed

Symbols of Britishness are embedded in the everyday life of Belfast, but you’d never guess that from listening to those protesting loudly about the council’s new Irish language policy.

Published October 16, 2025

Cumann na mBan and the Northern Offensive

A renowned feminist historian has written a new book on the untold story of Irish republican women involved in the 1916 Easter Rising, the Irish War of Independence, and the Irish Civil War.

Published October 9, 2025

A President for all

Northeners are denied a vote in this election. That is unacceptable. But all of us should find some way to be part of the campaign to elect Catherine Connolly, writes Gerry Adams.

Published October 2, 2025

The inside story of the Blanket Protest

The Blanket Protest began 49 years ago this week. It and the deaths of ten men on hunger strike would completely alter the political landscape in Ireland.

Published September 18, 2025

Why won’t unionists confront the truth about hate?

Some unionist commentators have belatedly begun to ask why it’s a unionist thing to burn families out of their homes. It always has been.

Published September 11, 2025

Irish political leaders let their people down on Palestine

On a wet and miserable Sunday night in the mid-west of Ireland, it was amazing to see so many people turn up for a talk about Palestine.

Published September 11, 2025

Nationalist politician murdered as he sought to flee

A prominent member of the SDLP shot dead by the notorious Glenanne Gang was planning to move his family across the border when the loyalist murder squad claimed his life, 50 years ago this week.

Published September 4, 2025

The Dublin Lockout of 1913

On the anniversary of the original ‘Bloody Sunday’, a look at the events of the Dublin Lockout which led to the creation of the Irish Citizen Army and foreshadowed the Easter Rising and a transformation in Irish society.

Published September 4, 2025

Michael Dwyer

This week marks the 200th anniversary of the passing of heroic freedom fighter and courageous rebel leader Michael Dwyer. A short biography of his life by Joan Kavanagh.

Published August 28, 2025

The trauma that never leaves

Families of friends gunned down by loyalists at bogus UDR checkpoint on the way home from a Gaelic match have been marking the 50th anniversary of the killings. A report by Connla Young (for the Irish News).

Published August 28, 2025

Patrick Rooney, first child victim of the conflict

A man whose life changed for ever when his brother became the first child victim of the Troubles has told how the trauma “never leaves you”.

Published August 21, 2025

Time for a complete trade embargo with Israel

If Ireland really wanted to make a difference, and help end the genocidal Israeli onslaught on Palestinians, it should enact a comprehensive trade embargo on Israel and dare the EU authorities to institute legal action.

Published August 21, 2025

‘The Liberator’, Daniel O’Connell, 250 years on

On this day 250 years ago, August 6 1775, ‘The Liberator’ Daniel O’Connell was born near Cahirciveen in County Kerry. A look at the life of an Irish hero who dominated political life in Ireland for the first half of the 19th century.

Published August 7, 2025

Memories of Kevin Lynch

Former blanketman James Kearney recalled his last meeting with an INLA martyr inside Long Kesh before he died on hunger strike, 44 years ago this week.

Published August 7, 2025

Britain’s century of complicity in Palestinian suffering

Britain cannot claim moral leadership while enabling Gaza’s suffering, according to Sinn Féin MP Chris Hazzard.

Published July 31, 2025

Twenty years on from historic statement

Contrasting views of the epochal decision by the Provisional IRA to disarm and decommission its weapons, twenty years ago this week.