Like any other Republican I would rather stand on a terraced street in
silence with an unbowed and unbroken Republican family as they remember
their husband, father and grandfather than stand in the presence of the
enemy that murdered him as they crown their next leader.
Published May 4, 2023
The speech delivered by Caoimhe Ní Loingsigh at the Easter commemoration in Carrickmore organised by the Tyrone National Graves
Association and the 1916 Societies.
Published April 27, 2023
As we approach 25 years since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement
(GFA) it is worth reflecting and challenging some of the false
narratives that have been peddled since then.
Published April 13, 2023
A tribute to sectarian murder victim Sean Brown written by the famed poet Seamus Heaney in 1997.
Published April 6, 2023
Liam Lynch, chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army, died one
hundred years ago this week. He was killed whilst trying to escape an
encirclement by pro-Treaty forces in south Tipperary.
Published April 6, 2023
The remarks of Sinn Féin First Minister-elect
Michelle O’Neill at the National Press Club in Washington DC last week.
Published March 23, 2023
‘Sliocht Róisín’ is an independent project aimed at recording in print
all Republican casualties 1916-24. The preface to
Volume 1, 1916-19, by historian and author Lorcan Collins.
Published March 23, 2023
An official wreath-laying ceremony took place in Donegal on Sunday to
commemorate the killing of four anti-Treaty IRA men - including south
Derry man, Séan Larkin - by Free State soldiers close to Stranorlar on
March 14 1923.
Published March 16, 2023
Luke Burke and Michael Grealy, known as Mullingar’s ‘two forgotten
martyrs’, were executed on 13 March, 1923. An oration
delivered by Peter A Rogers in Keady on Sunday for the Luke Burke
Centenary Commemoration.
Published March 16, 2023
On of the most significant months of the conflict took place 35 years
ago. In this article written for the tenth anniversary, Laura Friel
looked back at the Gibraltar and Milltown killings.
Published March 9, 2023
The National Flag of Ireland, often referred to as the tricolour,
was first flown 175 years ago this week
Published March 9, 2023
A number of commemorations are taking place in the coming weeks to mark
the centenary of Civil War events, including an atrocity against
Republicans in Kerry known as one of the worst of the conflict.
Published March 2, 2023
A lot of myths, distortions and downright lies surround the Orange
Order, most of them generated by the Order and its apologists.
Published February 2, 2023
On Bloody Sunday, we march for
all those everywhere who have lost family and friends and had their
children’s hopes of happiness shattered by the armoured cars and tanks
and guns of imperial armies.
Published January 26, 2023
A large crowd gathered on Wednesday evening in the New Lodge area of
Belfast for the commemoration of Francis Liggett, a 24-year-old newlywed
Volunteer shot dead by undercover British soldiers, fifty years ago this
week.
Published January 19, 2023
‘Reality and common sense’ must play a part in any discussion of the Dublin government’s failure to manage the migration and refugee issue, according to Aontú.
Published January 19, 2023
This week 100 years ago, five brave IRA Volunteers were executed by the Free
State authorities. A leaflet distributed at the time praised the heroism of the republican prisoners.
Published January 12, 2023
Despite heavy pro-establishment spin by government officials in the
release of ‘declassified’ state papers in Dublin and Belfast, and complete censorship in London, some other interesting details did emerge.
Published January 5, 2023
A round-up of messages issued by republican organisations to mark the
New Year.
Published January 5, 2023
Mary Lou McDonald’s grand-uncle was one of the Grey Abbey Martyrs killed
by the Free State 100 years ago. The Sinn Fein leader delivered a speech
at the Heritage Centre in Kildare town last weekend to mark the
anniversary.
Published December 22, 2022
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