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Remember republican prisoners this December
We are already near the traditional month for remembering republican political prisoners.
Published November 27, 2020
The brutal, cold-blooded killing of three IRA prisoners by the British 100 years ago this week – and their ham-fisted attempt to cover it up – is an aspect of Bloody Sunday which is often overlooked.
Published November 27, 2020
One of the most shameful and shocking episodes in Britain’s blood-stained history took place in Dublin a century ago this week.
Published November 20, 2020
One hundred years ago this week, the IRA carried out one of its most successful operations. The British secret service in Ireland was decimated when 13 senior intelligence officers were executed and many more fled into Dublin Castle.
Published November 14, 2020
Taoiseach Micheál Martin this week became the first Fianna Fáil leader to wear a poppy to mark the British Legion’s Remembrance Day. He was criticised for doing so by Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín, who explains his comments.
Published November 14, 2020
The 1980 H-Block hunger strike
Irish political prisoners confined in the infamous H-Blocks of Long Kesh
commenced a hunger strike on October 27, 1980, 40 years ago this week.
Published October 31, 2020
Kevin Barry was hanged at the age of 18 by the British in Mountjoy Jail
on 1 November 1920, 100 years ago this week. He was the first republican
to be executed by the British after the 1916 Rising, but his martyrdom
inspired the republican side in the War of Independence.
Published October 31, 2020
Terence MacSwiney, an Irish playwright, author and Sinn Féin Lord Mayor
of Cork, died 100 years ago this week in a hunger strike strike which
brought the Irish Republican campaign to worldwide attention.
Published October 23, 2020
Amid calls for the legacy investigation into the actions of
British agents inside the Provisional IRA to be expanded, the 32 County
Sovereignty Movement recall the brutal ambush twenty years ago this week
of 26-year-old Joe O’Connor.
Published October 16, 2020
The attempt to close the book on Bloody Sunday is an insult to the
victims’ families and to the rule of law. It is a stark indication of
where this British government is headed, writes
former British soldier Richard Rudkin.
Published October 16, 2020
Britain’s Palestinian political prisoner
MI5's tactics and its paid agent have renewed the bonds of friendship between Ireland and Palestine.
Published October 2, 2020
Reprisals were a colonial tactic
The President of Ireland Michael D Higgins has said Britain must face up
to its history of reprisals in Ireland, and that the sack of Balbriggan
100 years ago was rooted in assumptions of racial superiority.
Published September 19, 2020
A local account of the 1921 Sinnott’s Cross ambush, a small but
successful operation of the Kilkenny IRA in the War of Independence, by
Clogga Ireland.
Published July 31, 2020
Sinnott’s Cross Ambush commemoration
The
following oration was delivered at the Sinnott’s Cross Monument in
Mooncoin, at an event organised recently by the Independent Republicans
of South Kilkenny, by John Murphy of the 32CSM.
Published July 31, 2020
New prison visit rules ‘a wrecker’s charter’
Former republican prisoner Alex McCrory speaks out on the current situation for
prisoners at Maghaberry as they face a ban on family contact due
to the coronavirus.
Published July 24, 2020
The Orange Order’s secrecy secret
An English academic has uncovered new details of the Orange Order’s ‘riding the goat’ initiation rituals, which involve acts of violence to hammer home the order’s strict secrecy.
Published July 17, 2020
Bobby Storey on the death and funeral of Joe McDonnell
In memory of them both, here is a still relevant interview with the late Bobby Storey from July 2011 on the death thirty years earlier of hungerstriker Joe McDonnell, and discussing the attack on Joe’s funeral.
Published July 11, 2020
The Falls Curfew, fifty years on
The British Army sealed off an area encompassing nearly 3,000 homes in west Belfast, 50 years ago this week. They ransacked over a thousand homes and businesses and killed four civilians.
Published July 3, 2020
Stop the extradition of Liam Campbell
A High Court judge has said that she will order the extradition of 58-year-old Dundalk man, Liam Campbell, to Lithuania for Real IRA arms offences allegedly committed there 14 years ago. After a process which has taken 12 years, the order is to be officially delivered on July 13. The following is an analysis of the latest bid to extradite him by Cait Trainor (damnyourconcessions.com)
Published June 26, 2020
Ireland can help save Palestine
Pressure is growing for Ireland to act against a new plan by Israel to further annex and re-partition Palestine. The 26 County state won a seat on the influential United Nations Security Council last week, but at the cost of its planned sanctions against Israel’s illegal settlements. The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign outlines what is at risk and calls on the Irish people and politicians to act now.
Published June 26, 2020
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