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Grasp the nettle

An oration delivered to this year’s Ronan MacLochlainn Commemoration by Mr Francis Mackey, National Chairman of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement.

Published May 11, 2019

Easter statements 2019

A round-up of the main Easter statements, messages and orations delivered by republican groups to mark the anniversary of the Easter Rising.

Published April 27, 2019

Avoiding the mistakes of the past

Lyra McKee’s last tweet on the night of Holy Thursday contained a photograph of journalists and onlookers standing feet away from a PSNI vehicle during a riot in Derry. It became her last report on the “madness” as she described it, that tragically cut her life short.

Published April 27, 2019

Connolly ‘was far ahead of his time’

The text of the speech delivered by the President of Ireland Michael D Higgins at the official opening of Áras Uí Chonghaile, the James Connolly Visitor Centre, on the Falls Road in west Belfast on Friday.

Published April 20, 2019

‘The Rising never ended’

The following is the oration delivered at the annual Easter commemoration in Duleek this weekend by independent republican Cáit Trainor.

Published April 20, 2019

Petition to boycott Israel’s ‘cultural whitewash’

Protests have been taking place to convince Irish state broadcaster RTÉ to withdraw from this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Israel over its attacks against the Palestinian people.

Published April 6, 2019

The Intelligence War

100 years ago this week, Ned Broy smuggled Michael Collins into the headquarters of the British police in Ireland. It was a key turning point in the War of Independence.

Published March 30, 2019

Don’t hand them over!

Two young Dublin men, Seán Farrell and Ciarán Maguire currently face extradition to the Six Counties on foot of a European Arrest Warrant served by the PSNI in March 2017. If their request is successful Seán and Ciarán will face trial and potentially lengthy prison terms in Co Antrim’s notorious Maghaberry Prison where republican prisoners have for many years been subjected to forced strip searches, systematic beatings and held in isolation for prolonged periods of time.

Published March 30, 2019

The Craigavon Two: Ten years as political hostages

Brendan McConville and John Paul Wootton collectively known as the Craigavon Two, this week pass the 10th anniversary of their incarceration.

Published March 23, 2019

Britain intent on grinding down families’ fight

Sitting in the gallery of the Ballymurphy Massacre Inquest courtroom, you see two battles being waged. There is the legal battle for truth by victims’ families. There is also a battle of wills wherein the British Crown seems intent on grinding down families who dare fight for legacy truth by a strategy termed “deny, delay and die”.

Published March 23, 2019

Hunger strikers - Britain ‘blind to reason and persuasion’

March 1st marked the 38th anniversary of the start of Bobby Sands hunger strike in 1981. Nine days into his protest Sands turned 27 years of age. He would not live to see another birthday.

Published March 9, 2019

Time to go

There are many reasons you might think Karen Bradley should resign, but the Derry Girls may not be the first one that comes to mind.

Published March 9, 2019

Free Abdullah Öcalan

This week marks the twentieth anniversary of the abduction of the Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, who remains in solitary confinement as the only prisoner on an island in the Sea of Marmara in Turkey.

Published February 16, 2019

Escape from Lincoln Jail

During the years 1918 and 1919 Irish republicans, including Éamon de Valera and Michael Collins, were imprisoned in Lincoln Jail in England. They occupied themselves with study and debate, and then devised a textbook prison escape, 100 years ago this month.

Published February 16, 2019

The Dáil Courts of the Black and Tan War

There is plenty that we can learn today from the history of the Republican Court of a century ago.

Published February 9, 2019

A dirty deal to jail a solid republican

Saoradh’s view of the conviction in a non-jury court this week of its former party chairperson in Dublin, Kevin Braney, on the word of a paid informer.

Published February 9, 2019

The case against Jackson

Eamonn McCann of People for Profit, who was one of the organisers of the original civil rights march and continues to organise the annual Bloody Sunday march for justice, outlines why this year’s march demands “Jail Jackson”.

Published February 2, 2019

‘Our objective is the peaceful unity of the Irish people’

The new all-Ireland political party being led by Peadar Tóibín this week revealed its new name as Aontú, the Irish for unity or consent. In this statement written for the centenary of the First Dáil in 1919, Mr Tóibín set out his republican vision for the party.

Published February 2, 2019

Time to realise the promise of the revolutionary generation

Last weekend, an official state commemoration of the First Dail took place in the Mansion House in Dublin. Addressing the audience, Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald said that “we have before us the opportunity to build a new and united Ireland”.

Published January 26, 2019

The march for justice

The context for this years’s Bloody Sunday March.