Irish Republican News: Search Results

Seamus Grew and Roddy Carroll

Seamus Grew and Roddy Carroll were killed 40 years ago this week as the car they were driving was fired on by the RUC at Armagh in what has become known as ‘The Mullacreevie Park Massacre’.

Published December 8, 2022

Irish republican prisoners list

The current Irish republican prisoner list for December 2022, as collated by Irish Republican Prisoner News Facebook page from public lists by prisoner welfare groups and family/friends of independent prisoners. Its tips on writing to prisoners are included.

Published December 8, 2022

Border Poll ‘an error’ which will continue partition

An oration read by Francie Mackey, national chairperson of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement, at an event last weekend to remember IRA Volunteer Patsy Duffy in Derry.

Published December 1, 2022

Brutal State executions remembered

The centenary of the execution of four young rebels by the Irish Free State has been marked in Kilmainham Jail.

Published November 24, 2022

Reform of GFA would shift goalposts

Sinn Féin’s First Minister-designate Michelle O’Neill argues that there should be no fundamental change to the Good Friday Agreement without the consent of the people.

Published November 24, 2022

Stanislaus Carberry

IRA Volunteer Stanislaus Carberry was killed as he travelled in a hijacked car on the Falls Road in west Belfast, 50 years ago this week.

Published November 10, 2022

Sinn Féin Ard Fheis – Presidential Address

The prepared text of the address by Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald to her party’s ard fheis (annual conference) last weekend.

Published November 10, 2022

Helicopter escape from Mountjoy

At Halloween 1973 in Dublin, one of the most audacious, cleverly planned jail escapes in Irish history occurred.

Published November 3, 2022

The ‘Murder Bill’ and State Executions of Republicans

One hundred years ago this month, the Free State government in Dublin approved an emergency measure to allow the executions of IRA prisoners. By Wayne Sugg.

Published October 27, 2022

‘Let the people sing’

Saoradh has begun a campaign to defend and support the singing of Irish rebel songs and to end their equation with sectarianism by an anti-Republican lobby. An opinion piece by Paul Dunphy.

Published October 27, 2022

Ireland, a song that shall be heard

Signs that the next generation of young Irish people are ready to throw off the shackles of colonialism has deeply unnerved the pro-British establishment.

Published October 20, 2022

Big progress for radical housing campaign

A growing movement is taking on all those who seek to profit from the ‘criminal’ housing policies of the establishment in Ireland.

Published October 13, 2022

Planning for Ireland’s future

Sometimes decades of political change can happen within periods of months. That’s one way to characterise developments in Ireland over recent times.

Published October 6, 2022

The Great Escape

An account of the 1983 Long Kesh prison breakout, which occurred 39 years ago this week.

Published September 29, 2022

Tolerating differences

Society must reflect and include the entirety of its people, not part of them. Inclusivity is vital to the well being of any community, whether a nation, the global village or a local populace.

Published September 22, 2022

Lest we forget

Over 100 years on since the magnificent banner was hoisted outside of Liberty Hall, Dublin by the Irish Citizens Army, those words again come into direct correlation with the present, “We serve neither King nor Kaiser, but Ireland!”

Published September 15, 2022

New faces, old problems

Britain’s fourth British Prime Minister since 2016 started her political career as an accountant and a political moderate but is now leading one of the most right-wing governments in British history.

Published September 7, 2022

Joseph O’Sullivan and Reginald Dunne

IRA Volunteers Joseph O’Sullivan and Reginald Dunne were hanged by the British, 100 years ago this month.

Published August 18, 2022

The Lark and the Freedom Fighter

An essay written by Bobby Sands in 1979 while protesting against the criminalisation of republican prisoners. Because protesting prisoners were not allowed books or writing materials, this essay was composed on a square of toilet paper and smuggled out of the prison.

Published August 4, 2022

Harry Boland

On August 1, 1922, Irish revolutionary Harry Boland succumbed to wounds received at the Grand Hotel in Skerries, County Dublin at the hands of pro-Treaty forces, 100 years ago this week.