Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan has spoken from his Turkish prison
cell, signalling the end of his PKK movement’s armed campaign, writes
Kurdish rights activist Agit Karatas.
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PKK disarms as Öcalan ends armed struggle
Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan has spoken from his Turkish prison
cell, signalling the end of his PKK movement’s armed campaign, writes
Kurdish rights activist Agit Karatas.
Published July 24, 2025
Miami Showband massacre survivor writes, 50 years on
Des Lee, a member of the Miami Showband, was interviewed by Liam Collins
on his new book ‘My saxophone saved my life’, published fifty years
after the atrocity which claimed the lives of three of his
bandmates.
Published July 24, 2025
Tom Barry, West Cork Flying Column commander
Tom Barry was the West Cork Flying Column commander whose memoirs of the
struggle to free Ireland from British rule became an influential guide
to guerrilla warfare. He died on 2 July 1980, 45 years ago this week.
Published July 10, 2025
What about the women of the Orange Order?
Apart from the obvious sectarianism, the exclusion of women should raise questions
over the fawning media coverage of the Orange Order’s parades.
Published July 10, 2025
The genocide of indigenous Australians
British colonists committed genocide against Australia’s Indigenous
population in Victoria, a landmark inquiry has found this week. We publish
an abridged introduction to the history of the issue.
Published July 3, 2025
A timely reminder of the Good Friday Agreement
Without a mechanism for a united Ireland, the IRA would not have signed
up to the Good Friday Agreement, writes Brian Feeney.
Published June 26, 2025
‘Mo Chara’ court appearance makes Britain look panicked
Kneecap have said the British authorities are “already on the back foot”
after rap singer Mo Chara was released on unconditional bail by a court
in London on Wednesday, pending another court appearance on August 20.
Published June 19, 2025
Real votes are a more credible guide than opinion polls, writes Kevin Meaghar. However, it’s now becoming clear that whatever metric you present, the prospect of Irish unity is getting closer all the time.
Published June 19, 2025
Nationalists doubt Dublin’s commitment to Irish unity
Northern nationalists felt betrayed by Dublin 100 years ago, after the
collapse of the Boundary Commission in December 1925. It left the border
unchanged despite their hopes that it would make unification inevitable.
Many of their descendants still feel that way.
Published June 12, 2025
Where is the outrage over the Winkie Irvine case?
The exceptional story of the arrest, treatment and sentencing of Winston
‘Winkie’ Irvine warrants considerably greater attention and protest than
has so far been the case.
Published June 5, 2025
An introduction to the history of the famine in Ireland, by the Great
Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University.
Published June 5, 2025
How do we chart a path to a Border Poll and win it?
We are at the cusp of a great historical inflection point. The opportunity is seized, or it is not, according to author Kevin Meaghar.
Published May 29, 2025
Kneecap row shows desperation of Kemi Badenoch
One third of the Irish republican rap trio is facing police action over
something that shouldn’t be the British state’s concern.
Published May 29, 2025
It feels as though the Gaza Strip is no longer part of this world, as if
we’re living in some distant, forgotten galaxy. Our lives are marked by
suffering and strangeness, while the rest of the world carries on as if
our reality doesn’t exist.
Published May 8, 2025
Bridie Brown’s fight for justice
A plan by the British government to challenge a Court of Appeal ruling
directing a public inquiry into the murder of Sean Brown has been
greeted with a wave of anger in Ireland.
Published May 1, 2025
The vision that Ireland might be free
We republish a day-by-day account of the 1916 Rising, by the late Shane
MacThomáis, chief historian of Glasnevin cemetery.
Published April 17, 2025
The next step in our island’s journey
The British and Irish Governments are the co-guarantors of the Agreement
and in many ways, America is the third guarantor.
Published April 17, 2025
The memoirs of IRA commander and life-long Kerry republican Dan
Mulvihill, an aide to anti-Treaty IRA chief of staff, Liam Lynch,
reveals the anger of many of his former comrades about developments in
the early years of the conflict in the Six Counties.
Published April 10, 2025
Hunter was right: Unionists have a coloniser mindset
The English carried out such cultural suppression whenever they took
over any part of these islands.
Published April 10, 2025
A look at the background to the IRA's heroic fight for independence in
1916, by Mark Duncan.
Published April 3, 2025
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