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Republicans must build strategic alliances

Francis Mackey of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement delivered the oration at the annual Alan Ryan commemoration last Sunday, 7th September.

Published September 18, 2025

How Israel’s war on Gaza has become a war on the truth

For ten months, Gaza and its people have been under relentless bombardment. Entire neighbourhoods have been flattened, hospitals reduced to rubble, and families obliterated in seconds. But alongside the destruction of homes and lives, another campaign is being waged, one aimed not only at innocent civilians, but at the very people who tell the world what is happening.

Published August 14, 2025

Jimmy Steele

On the 55th anniversary of Óglach Jimmy Steele, the Irish Republican Martyrs Committee held a wreath laying in Milltown cemetery and issued the following tribute to his memory.

Published August 14, 2025

Kevin Hannaway remembered

Former republican prisoner Stephen Murney delivered the main oration at the unveiling of the mural in west Belfast to Volunteer Kevin Hannaway. The full text of his speech is published below.

Published July 17, 2025

What compels young men to die?

A poem written by hunger strike martyr and IRA East Tyrone Brigade Volunteer, Martin Hurson, at Easter 1981 during the 1981 hunger strike. On 13 July 1981, he became the sixth of ten men to die in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh in protest against attempts to criminalise the republican struggle.

Published July 17, 2025

Statements by Bob Vylan

The immediate response of the English rap band ‘Bob Vylan’ to the furore over its chants in support of Palestine at the Glastonbury festival, and on the following day.

Published July 3, 2025

Sinn Féin address at Bodenstown

Sinn Féin Leas Uachtarán, Michelle O’Neill addressed the party’s annual Wolfe Tone Commemoration at Bodenstown, County Kildare on Saturday, June 22.

Published June 26, 2025

A united civic identity in a sovereign republic

John Crawley, an author and a former IRA volunteer, gave the oration last weekend at the National Independent Republican Commemoration in Bodenstown, where Wolfe Tone is buried. The following is the text of his address.

Published June 12, 2025

McCreesh and O’Hara commemorated

Óglach Raymond McCreesh and his comrade Óglach Patsy O’Hara, two of the 1981 hungerstrikers who gave their lives 44 years ago this week, were remembered in Camlough, County Armagh at a commemoration organised by the Constance Markievicz 1916 Society.

Published May 22, 2025

MPs must be held accountable as combatants

In the theatre of Westminster, where power dresses itself in ceremony and affectation, a terrible truth is obscured by the pomp: the men and women who vote to send bombs, bullets and battalions into other people’s countries rarely hear the screams.

Published May 22, 2025

‘Hands off Irish neutrality’

Sinn Féin Leader Mary Lou McDonald TD addressed a ‘Public Rally for Peace’ in Dublin’s Gresham Hotel last weekend organised by the Irish Neutrality League, a new grouping of left-wing Irish parliamentarians.

Published May 15, 2025

Why are loyalist bands funded to insult Catholics?

Bands who play offensive tunes should be penalised by having to pay back grants, writes Brian Feeney.

Published May 15, 2025

Óglach Bobby Sands

The address delivered by Pat Sheehan MLA at the unveiling of the statue of 1981 hunger striker Bobby Sands in Twinbrook, Belfast.

Published May 8, 2025

Kneecap statement

A response by the Irish rap band to the media storm over its denunciations of Israel at a US music festival

Published May 1, 2025

Rising commemorated with defiance and purpose

A “large-scale, anti-Republican operation” was reported as the Crown Forces deployed across Belfast ahead of several Easter commemorations in the city over the weekend.

Published April 24, 2025

Easter statements 2025

A collection of orations, addresses and statements issued by republican organisations over the Rising commemorative period.

Published April 24, 2025

Tom Smith remembered

Volunteer Tom Smith, Dublin Brigade, Irish Republican Army was shot dead by Free State soldiers during an escape attempt from Portlaoise jail on 17th of March 1975, 50 years ago this week.

Published March 20, 2025

Quotes by Bobby Sands

In March 1981, Irish patriot Bobby Sands embarked on hunger strike at Long Kesh prison. We publish a brief collection of quotes, some famous, some less well known.

Published March 13, 2025

Tributes to Bik McFarlane

Republicans around the world have been paying tribute to former senior IRA Volunteer Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane, a legend of the conflict who played a major part in the 1981 hunger strike.

Published February 27, 2025

Monsignor Raymond Murray

A statement from Relatives for Justice CEO Mark Thompson on the passing of Monsignor Raymond Murray