Wolfe Tone died on November 19, 1798 - 310 years ago this week
- from a stab wound to his neck which he inflicted upon himself.
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Wolfe Tone died on November 19, 1798 - 310 years ago this week
- from a stab wound to his neck which he inflicted upon himself.
Published November 21, 2008
The theme of Sinn Fein's Edentubber Commemoration this year was
the role of women in the struggle for Irish freedom.
Published November 13, 2008
Helicopter escape from Mountjoy
At Halloween 1973 in Dublin, one of the most audacious, cleverly
planned jail escapes in Irish history occurred.
Published November 7, 2008
It is twenty years to the day, since the British Government imposed the
media ban as part of another review of security in the North of
Ireland.
Published October 31, 2008
Hunger is a true-to-life film, not propaganda, as claimed by its unionist
critics.
Published October 24, 2008
Nationalising the risks, not the assets
Brian Leeson, eirigi chairperson, presents his analysis of the crisis
in the Irish financial system, of those who created it, and the choices
facing Irish citizens for the future.
Published October 17, 2008
The day the RUC appeared on TV
Events in Derry’s Duke Street forty years ago were magnified
by the arrival of a new witness to Irish history: the television news camera.
Published October 10, 2008
Recollections by civil rights activist Fionnbarra O Dochartaigh regarding
the event which some historians characterise as the day the ‘Troubles’
began.
Published October 3, 2008
On the 25th anniversary of the mass escape from the H-Blocks of Long
Kesh, some of those who took part have revealed the dramatic events
surrounding the escape for a new documentary.
Published September 26, 2008
Omagh - The bomb to end all bombs?
Did a British agent first flout Omagh as a potential target for a bomb attack? Was the carnage of August 15 the product of his labour?
Published September 19, 2008
Hunger strike by Shell to Sea activist
Shell to Sea campaigner Maura Harrington has begun a Hunger Strike to
coincide with the arrival of the Solitaire, Shell’s pipe-laying vessel in
Broadhaven Bay.
Published September 12, 2008
Modernisation of the Orange Order?
The final installment of a three-part series looking at the
malign influence of the Orange Order in the north of Ireland,
from its inception to the present day.
Published September 5, 2008
Austin Currie reflects on the huge and peaceful Coalisland to Dungannon
March of August 24th, 1968, which marked a turning point for the Irish
civil rights movement.
Published August 29, 2008
Bloody Sunday paras linked to Belfast massacre
Truth campaigners now say that Bloody Sunday might never have happened
had the British Army been brought to book for the Ballymurphy
slaughter.
Published August 22, 2008
Was the Omagh bomb allowed to happen?
The families of the victims have called for a full cross-order public
inquiry into the Omagh bomb, which took place ten years ago this week.
Published August 15, 2008
Without them there would not have been an IRA, a Sinn Fein, war or
peace or the new Ireland we have today.
Published August 8, 2008
Glory Days of the Orange Order
The second part in a multi-part series examining the history and
current context of the Protestant marching orders, this week looking at
the Orange Order during the first Stormont administration, 1921-1972.
Published August 1, 2008
One hundred and sixty years after one of the most traumatic events in
the history of this island, the Dublin Government are to officially
commemorate An Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger, which claimed the lives of
an estimated one million Irish people and reduced the population of the
country by half.
Published July 25, 2008
The Loyal Orders stress the cultural and religious aspects of their
organisations. The reality of their involvement over the past 200
years tells a different story.
Published July 18, 2008
The oration by Marion Price at the
grave of Wolfe Tone in the Republican Unity Initiative’s Bodenstown
commemoration.
Published July 11, 2008
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