
One hundred years ago this week, the Civil War came to an end. Peace
settled on the country, but the conflict left a bitter legacy that not
only divided the country politically but also broke families apart — and
the effects reverberated through generations.
Published June 1, 2023

Frankly, there will be an audible sigh of relief in Westminster if it
looks like Northern Ireland will be voted out of existence in the next
few years.
Published June 1, 2023

Imagine people in Britain were told Brexit would not happen because only
a narrow majority had voted for it? That the issue was so divisive it
required a supermajority of 60 percent before it passed?
Published May 25, 2023

Britain’s role in the Nakba, the Palestinian displacement of 75 years
ago, is not restricted to its actions in the 20th century, writes Leanne
Mohamad, a British Palestinian human rights activist based in London.
Published May 18, 2023

In a rare interview the brothers and sisters of Adrian Carroll have told
how they continue to “remember him every day” despite the passing of
four decades.
Published May 18, 2023

Black flag vigils are taking place in Dublin and elsewhere on Friday to
mark the anniversary of the death of 1981 hunger striker Bobby Sands.
The following piece by Sands was originally published in 1978.
Published May 4, 2023

Following the reported death of Freddie Scappaticci, Anthony McIntyre
recalls the bitter divisions over the ‘Stakeknife’ allegations that the
head of the Provisional IRA’s Internal Security Unit was a British
agent. For The Pensive Quill.
Published April 27, 2023

A quarter century on from the Belfast Agreement, we look to the next 25
years, committed to work together to build a better, more prosperous
future for all the people of this island.
Published April 20, 2023

Joe Biden’s visit to Belfast, or more accurately, a carefully restricted
bit of Belfast, wasn’t the visit he intended or had hoped it to be.
Published April 20, 2023

An interview given by former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams to Freya
McClements of the Irish Times to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good
Friday Agreement.
Published April 13, 2023

A Belfast court has posthumously awarded compensation to the family of
Liam Holden, who was tortured and assaulted by British soldiers in the
1970s. Documents show the use of electric shocks and sexual assault were
commonly inflicted on prisoners.
Published March 30, 2023

Sinn Féin Party Leader Mary Lou McDonald recently held a wide-ranging
interview with German publication ‘Der Spiegel’ about why she thinks a
reunification referendum could take place within a decade.
Published March 30, 2023

Unionists should be thanking Rishi Sunak, who has made the idea of grown-up politics and the severing of knotty political problems doable.
Published March 2, 2023

On the 35th anniversary of Aidan McAnespie’s murder, in the weeks after
his killer was allowed to walk free after a court conviction, an
interview by journalist John Scally with Eilish McCabe, Mr McAnespie’s
sister, before she lost her brave battle with illness.
Published February 23, 2023

The people of Northern Ireland are once again collateral damage, just as we were for the last campaign of ‘getting Brexit done’.
Published February 23, 2023

‘Big in heart and spirit’ Sinn Féin councillor John Davey was killed by
loyalists in 1989, just two days after the murder of Pat Finucane.
Published February 16, 2023

Having already lost their case in the High Court and Court of Appeal, we
can be permitted a measure of schadenfreude at the host of unionist
luminaries who rolled the dice a third time only to have the Supreme
Court return a unanimous verdict that the protocol is entirely legal and
proper.
Published February 16, 2023

Ambrose Hardy had to get home. Trapped in a bar in the New Lodge area of
north Belfast by the shooting that was going on outside, he was afraid
his mother would be worried and come looking for him.
Published February 9, 2023

The first Irish bank holiday to be named after a woman has taken place in Ireland.
Published February 9, 2023

A new campaign is calling on everyone in Ireland to learn the words to
Amhrán na bhFiann.
Published February 2, 2023

Stupidity like the British Government’s exclusion of the Sinn
Féin President from recent talks needs to be highlighted, according to Gerry Adams.
Published January 26, 2023

2022 was an unprecedented political year, and the momentum for constitutional change will continue growing throughout 2023.
Published January 12, 2023

People campaigning for justice will have exchanged knowing looks after
last week’s announcement of ‘an independent judicial inquiry’ into the
SAS killings of 54 Afghan civilians in 2010-11.
Published December 22, 2022

Between 1880 to 1920, British colonial policies in India claimed more
lives than all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China and North Korea
combined.
Published December 15, 2022

A week or so ago on November 18 in Killarney 820 republicans broke bread
together in honour of Martin and Marie Ferris. It was a great night.
Published December 1, 2022

It’s surprising that there’s any surprise about support for increased
Irish government involvement in the north in the absence of a devolved
administration here as evidenced in the latest LucidTalk poll.
Published November 16, 2022

Unionist politicians, I sometimes think, compete with each as to how
they can make the rest of us gape, open-mouthed in wonder.
Published November 16, 2022

Conway Mill has been at the heart of west Belfast for over almost 200
years. Last week it celebrated its 40th birthday.
Published November 3, 2022

Sheena Fagan Campbell was an activist, a law student, and a rising star
in the Sinn Féin hierarchy. She was a single mother in Belfast who was
determined to provide for her young child and at the time of her murder,
she was engaged to be married.
Published October 20, 2022

An extract from a new book, ‘The Yank , in which former US Marine John Crawley delivers an unvarnished account of his role in the Irish armed struggle.
Published October 13, 2022

In light of the latest census figures, constitutional nationalists
have been jumping for joy, receiving this news as vindication of their
strategy. Likewise reactionary unionists have been apoplectic with anger
and fear, understanding this news as evidence of impending Rome Rule.
Published October 6, 2022

The latest census figures show that fundamental change is unstoppable
and points towards a referendum on Irish reunification.
Published September 29, 2022

An essay written in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh prison by hunger striker
Bobby Sands, first published in January 1979.
Published September 22, 2022

Saturday marked the 420th anniversary of the death of Aodh Ruadh, Red Hugh, the last of the great Gaelic leaders of Donegal.
Published September 15, 2022

My conversion to the New Ireland cause was not an overnight decision and
predates Brexit. I have always felt Irish and while initially this was
in addition to feeling British, my thinking has changed over time.
Published September 7, 2022

The ambush in which IRA Volunteers Paddy Mulvenna and Jim Bryson were
assassinated by the British Army took place 49 years ago this week. An
account of their lives cut short, based on a report by Relatives for
Justice.
Published September 1, 2022

They say those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. It’s 1979 all over. Here we go again.
Published September 1, 2022

There is no doubting the indelible imprint Collins left on the national
psyche.
Published August 25, 2022

The writing is on the wall for the future of the Union, but those for
whom preserving it matters most are just too blind to see it.
Published August 25, 2022

Liz Truss has been wrecking the Good Friday Agreement by carrying out the actions the ERG has insisted on and which they insist on the DUP also obeying.
Published August 18, 2022

Arthur Griffith, the founder of Sinn Féin and one of the fathers of the
Irish Free State, died 100 years ago this week, on August 12, 1922.
Published August 11, 2022

To conflate the modern-day GAA with the IRA and a battle for Irish unity
is typical of the whataboutery, the pathetic attitude and lack of
leadership that exists within political unionism.
Published August 11, 2022

The 1916 veteran and trade union activist Rosie Hackett was born 130
years ago this week.
Published July 28, 2022

The Irish government’s refusal to even begin the preparations for Irish unity is increasingly untenable.
Published July 28, 2022

Martin’s commentary on the north is entirely wrong. His appeal for
reconciliation before developing any political or constitutional
structures puts the cart before the horse.
Published July 21, 2022

Dare we hope that some day, a unionist leader will have the
cojones to call the Twelfth for what it is, and to work towards the ending of the
annual hatefest?
Published July 14, 2022

It feels like we are at a tipping point, or at least a crunch point –
again.
Published July 6, 2022

Naturally all the responses to the British government’s anti-protocol
bill have emphasised the plans to enable British ministers to ditch
pretty well anything and everything in the protocol they want except
three sections, Articles 2, 3 and 11.
Published June 30, 2022

We need a new legal definition of sectarianism entrenched in law with
legal sanctions and robust incitement to hatred provisions.
Published June 16, 2022

Sectarianism met misogyny on the outskirts of an east Belfast Orange
hall last weekend, and what unfolded far surpassed the worst stereotype
some regularly complain their opponents foist upon them.
Published June 9, 2022

Last weekend marked the centenary of a Donegal-Fermanagh border battle,
part of the doomed ‘Northern Offensive’ campaign said to have been
encouraged by Michael Collins to unite supporters and opponents of the
Anglo-Irish Treaty to challenge the partition of Ireland it helped to
bring about.
Published June 1, 2022

The visit of Richie Neal and his congressional colleagues to Brussels,
London, Dublin and Belfast could not have occurred at a more opportune
moment.
Published May 26, 2022

Scenes from occupied Jerusalem, where the funeral of state-murdered
journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was attacked by Israeli forces, have
recalled for many the murderous and oppressive actions of the British
forces in Ireland. Maureen Clare Murphy writes from Palestine about a
dark week for the conflict there.
Published May 19, 2022

In the 25 years since the brutal murder of Sean Brown his family have
been repeatedly frustrated in their campaign for justice.
Published May 19, 2022

Thatcher and her government’s intransigence handed republicans a victory that
not even countless IRA military operations could have achieved, according to the author of a new book.
Published May 5, 2022

Thomas Ashe was a founder member of the Irish Volunteers who led
a rare Irish victory during the 1916 Rising, 106 years ago this week.
Published April 28, 2022

The Good Friday Agreement has created new opportunities. Not least of these
is the fact that for the first time there is a peaceful, democratic
route to bring about constitutional change.
Published April 28, 2022

One hundred years ago this week, the IRA occupied the Four Courts in
Dublin, Ireland’s most prominent courts building, resulting in a tense
stand-off which would come to mark the start of Ireland’s civil war. A
historical account by Des Dalton.
Published April 21, 2022

Statements issued by republican groups to mark
the anniversary of the Easter Rising.
Published April 21, 2022

Declassified files have revealed the shocking level of collusion between
the British Army’s UDR regiment and loyalists. Micheál Smith is the
author of a new book on the subject.
Published April 14, 2022

It is commonly argued that unionism’s problems began with Brexit, but
the explanation lies much deeper in history.
Published April 14, 2022

A hundred years ago this week, the Crown Forces murdered six nationalist
civilians in Belfast, shortly after they had killed six Catholic
civilians in the McMahon murders.
Published April 7, 2022

Just when you thought the Brexit commotion had taken a back seat to war
in Ukraine and spiralling cost-of-living concerns, a Westminster vote
limiting free movement for people on the island of Ireland inserts a new
plot twist.
Published March 31, 2022

The infamous slaughter of the McMahon family 100 years ago epitomised
the Protestant campaign of terror against Catholics.
Published March 24, 2022

Going forward, it will not be acceptable for European policymakers to
tell me, when I ask them to treat Palestine like Ukraine: “It’s
different!”
Published March 17, 2022

We’re living through the biggest geopolitical shock since the Berlin Wall fell in 1989.
Published March 17, 2022

On Saturday, March 5, in the grounds of Dungarvan Castle, a special
event took place to mark the centennial withdrawal of British forces
from the garrison and its subsequent handover to the local IRA, ending
an 800-year British presence in the County Waterford town.
Published March 10, 2022

The views of former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams on the conflict in Ukraine.
Published March 10, 2022

Evidence shows that a disproportionate airing of an
outlandish minority line, legitimising it, has shifted the agenda within
unionism to the right.
Published March 3, 2022

A history of a landmark Sinn Féin Ard Fheis 100 years ago this week which
still has echoes today, by Des Dalton.
Published February 24, 2022

The third week in February was national Bash The Shinners Week, according to
Pat Flanagan.
Published February 24, 2022

One of the most shocking incidents following the signing of the Treaty
took place 100 years ago this week, when Catholic children playing in a
Belfast street were bombed.
Published February 17, 2022

Since Stormont was set up in 1999, it has been shut for 37pc of the
time. It should be a time-share.
Published February 17, 2022

I’m waiting for a journalist – maybe RTÉ – to approach Garda
Commissioner Drew Harris and ask him what he knows of these murderous
activities involving Special Branch.
Published February 10, 2022

British Direct Ruler Brandon Lewis, British foreign secretary Liz Truss
and Orange Order grand secretary Mervyn Gibson met on the loyalist
Shankill Road in Belfast last Thursday. Commentator Brian Feeney on what
he describes as a deliberately provocative gesture.
Published February 3, 2022

An obituary written by Aisling Claffery for her father, a draughtsman
who produced memorable images connected with the conflict in the north
of Ireland.
Published January 13, 2022

A historical account of the parliamentary debate on the Anglo-Irish Treaty
of 1921, 100 years ago this week which presaged the outbreak of the
Irish Civil War, by Des Dalton.
Published January 13, 2022

Commentator Joe Brolly has addressed the southern establishment’s selfish
response to the conflict in the north.
Published January 6, 2022

Unionists’ bad faith, bad behaviour and seditious lawlessness
demonstrate the truth of Enoch Powell’s conclusion that there is no
halfway house between full integration into the UK and a united Ireland.
Published January 6, 2022

This Christmas take a moment to think about Leonard Peltier.
Published December 30, 2021

One hundred years ago this week, a deal forced upon Irish negotiators
under the threat of an immediate and terrible war, brought about
the disastrous partition of Ireland. A historical account by Des Dalton.
Published December 11, 2021

Marking the centenary of the signing of the treaty, Sinn Féin Leader
Mary Lou McDonald writes that a new and United Ireland is within sight
and that we will see the ending of partition and the unification of all
of our people, in our time.
Published December 11, 2021

You couldn’t fail to notice a striking imbalance in the heat and noise generated here this year about the consequences of the Brexit the DUP supported.
Published November 26, 2021

A Palestinian child was killed by Israeli forces on Friday, 5 November.
Published November 13, 2021

Within days of Brexit coming into effect last January xenophobic British tabloids were ranting about Dutch customs officers at the Hook of Holland ferry terminal confiscating ‘British lorry drivers’ ham sandwiches’.
Published November 13, 2021

I’m starting to get the impression of COP26 as a contrived stitch up. Where world leaders get to present their inadequate action as fixing the problem. This really is dangerous stuff. You see I remember the 1992 Rio Earth Summit well.
Published November 6, 2021

British spies incited mass murder of Indonesia’s communists, according to newly declassified papers.
Published October 30, 2021

The worst threat to the Good Friday Agreement is London’s nationalist agenda, writes Emma de Souza.
Published October 30, 2021

The Irish protocol has become a pretext for unravelling the international treaties Boris Johnson signed up to in 2019-20.
Published October 16, 2021

Lisa Hone is one of thousands living with the failure of successive Dublin governments to regulate building materials, resulting in the failure of their new-build homes due to blocks containing mica and pyrite, and who are now seeking full redress.
Published October 9, 2021

On September 29th, 1845, a momentous meeting took place in Dublin between a 27-year-old American and a 70-year-old Irish man.
Published October 1, 2021

A proposed sweeping amnesty that would stop all investigations into crimes committed during the conflict, including those by the British military, threatens to thwart the pursuit of truth and justice for victims’ families.
Published September 25, 2021

Unionism saw in Brexit an opportunity to wreck the Good Friday agreement and get a hard border back. Instead, it is any prospect of the survival of Northern Ireland that has been demolished.
Published September 18, 2021

Family was the watchword for Kevin Mulgrew, who died peacefully at his home in Dundalk on September 5 after a long battle with cancer.
Published September 11, 2021

As part of a wide-ranging interview, former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has said he believes the Dublin
government should immediately kick-start planning for a united Ireland
and that a border poll could happen within as little as three years.
Published August 27, 2021

Commemorations are taking place in Derry and in the US to mark the 40th anniversary of the death of Mickey Devine, the last of the H-Block prisoners to give his life after 60 days on hunger strike.
Published August 21, 2021

This place is the only part of the UK which has a legal and constitutional right to secede. Yet, despite in their hearts knowing these truths, most unionists refuse even to think about preparing for inevitable British withdrawal.
Published August 21, 2021

Those who seek change need to get on with constructing a robust and
persuasive case for a united Ireland, writes QUB academic Colin Harvey.
Published August 14, 2021

A report on the horrors committed by British forces in
implementing internment without trial in the north of Ireland.
‘Operation Demetrius’ began fifty years ago this week.
Published August 7, 2021

Johnson and Lewis have ensured by their duplicity that the legacy issue will remain unresolved. It will continue to dominate much of the political discourse in the North.
Published July 31, 2021

The Irish National Invincibles were a splinter group of the IRB who had
five members hanged and buried in Kilmainham Gaol in 1883 for an attack
in which two senior British civil servants died. A campaign is underway
for their reinterment.
Published July 24, 2021

Anyone reading yesterday’s British government command paper, ‘Addressing the Legacy of NI’s Past’, should be warned to keep a suitable receptacle nearby to contain the disgusting product of the nausea this exercise in hypocrisy, doublethink and colonial condescension will induce.
Published July 17, 2021

The announcement that Bloody Sunday prosecutions have been halted cast a shadow over Derry that contrasted with the bright skies of June 15, 2010, when it appeared that the victims would be treated properly.
Published July 10, 2021

We have Irish governments with no sense of the history of their own land, no imagination, no sense of history and no vision for the future, as the historic Moore Street base of the 1916 Rising remains derelict and sealed off from the public.
Published July 3, 2021

Springhill is often regarded as the ‘forgotten massacre’, having
received very little coverage in the mainstream media, but the people of
West Belfast have never forgotten.
Published June 19, 2021

One of the most important battles during the Irish War of Independence
took place 100 years ago this week. A look at a famous episode in Mayo
history.
Published June 12, 2021

It’s somewhat stating the obvious but Joe Biden is not some angry
councillor who phones his local paper every week in order to boost his
profile.
Published June 12, 2021

A couple of weeks ago you read here that electing Poots leader would hasten the demise of the DUP.
Published June 5, 2021

The reality is that the Coroner’s conclusions in the Ballymurphy case will not have surprised the security mandarins that run the British system. Every government, Conservative and Labour, has known the truth of these events since they first occurred.
Published May 29, 2021

INLA Volunteer, Patsy O’Hara was one of three INLA Volunteers who died whilst on Hunger Strike, along with the seven Volunteers from the IRA. Patsy survived 61 days on hunger strike from 21 March 1981 until 21 May 1981 when he died, 40 years ago this week.
Published May 22, 2021

It was the desperate plight of prisoners In the North of Ireland and the death of Bobby Sands that took me 3000 miles across the Atlantic to meet the Elliott family, whose ancestors long ago had left Derry and settled in the USA.
Published May 15, 2021

Human Rights Watch has issued a landmark report concluding that Israel commits the crimes of apartheid and persecution against the Palestinian people.
Published May 8, 2021

The four letters circulating against DUP leader Arlene Foster are four different versions of the same suicide note.
Published April 30, 2021

Boris Johnson has told the British parliament final
preparations were being made to a draft bill that would in effect
provide protection from prosecution for British soldiers that served in
the North of Ireland.
Published April 24, 2021

There’s one aspect of the chronically defective unionist leadership through the decades that you have to admit: consistency.
Published April 17, 2021

Bobby Sands’ victory in Fermanagh and South Tyrone 40 years ago this week gave the republican movement a “victory that not even countless IRA military operations could have achieved”, according to a former prisoner in the H-Blocks.
Published April 10, 2021

Commentator Joe Brolly has responded to RTE’s controversial effort to silence him during a TV
debate on a united Ireland.
Published April 2, 2021

There is almost an unwillingness to contemplate asking people to make a choice in a border poll, combined with a worry about the implications.
Published March 27, 2021

The success of Tom Barry’s flying column plagued British forces and posed a serious and consistent threat to the authorities in West Cork. A historical account of the Crossbarry ambush, 100 years ago this week.
Published March 20, 2021

A leader with vision would be acting now to promote a managed reworking of the constitutional arrangements in these islands.
Published March 20, 2021

In South Armagh Republican folklore, the lives and tragic deaths of two young Irishmen will be forever intertwined, with the names of Brendan Moley and Brendan Burns — ‘The Two Brendans’ as they are popularly remembered — writ large into the story of the struggle for a sovereign and free Ireland.
Published March 6, 2021

Where elements of the British press have gone out of their way to pay lip service to the historical wrongs committed against other minority groups, Ireland remains a peculiar blind spot.
Published March 6, 2021

Forty years ago today, Bobby Sands began his hunger strike. In order to fight Thatcher’s policy of criminalisation and secure their status as Irish political prisoners, he and his comrades were willing to fast until death. In doing so, they changed the course of Irish history.
Published March 1, 2021

Who said this? Johnson’s Withdrawal Agreement which established an Irish Sea border is “a great step forward and is fully in accordance within the spirit of the Good Friday Agreement.” David Trimble. That was October 2019.
Published February 27, 2021

An article by Liz Gillis for Kilmainham Tales on one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of the prison, which took place 100 years ago this week.
Published February 20, 2021

Memories of the Lower Ormeau Road at a turning point in history.
Published February 13, 2021

The Save 16 Moore Street Committee and the Families of the Signatories of the 1916 Proclamation have published the first images of a regeneration plan for the area.
Published February 6, 2021

If ever we needed a reminder of the stark flaws and practical problems associated with the partition of our island, then the coronavirus pandemic and Brexit have exposed them like never before.
Published January 30, 2021

A total of 3,500 relatives of victims have signed an open letter calling on the London and Dublin governments to implement previously agreed proposals to deal with the legacy of the recent conflict in the north of Ireland. A commentary by Mark Thompson of Relatives for Justice on the background to the letter, included below.
Published January 22, 2021

The young people of Ireland know that the key to a better, stronger and brighter future lies in their hands. The time is coming, very shortly, where they will seize the opportunity that is being presented to them.
Published January 16, 2021

One of the more enjoyable aspects of last week was watching the mental gymnastics of Arlene Foster and other representatives of the Democratic Unionist Party.
Published January 9, 2021

British policy is dictated by British interests. It has always been so. The fact that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has again betrayed unionists over Brexit should have come as no surprise to anyone with even the most rudimentary understanding of how British policy works.
Published December 30, 2020

The last time I saw Patrick, he was restating his father’s wish that there be a human rights-compliant investigation into his mother’s killing. At the age of 34 he, like so many others affected by conflict, has now died without seeing truth, justice or acknowledgment.
Published December 11, 2020

This week 100 years ago on a roadside in County Cork, a small group of young men in with hardly any military training lay in wait for their enemy. History was about to be made.
Published December 4, 2020

On 12 February 1989, my father, the human rights lawyer Pat Finucane, was murdered by loyalist paramilitaries as we sat together at the dinner table in the kitchen of our home in Belfast. I was eight years old.
Published December 4, 2020

Ireland international soccer star James McClean wrote this article on his reasons for supporting Irish Unity.
Published November 20, 2020

Leo Varadkar is either a liar or a very unlucky man.
Published November 6, 2020

A discussion on Irish Unity must be permitted to advance if those already sceptical about delivery of the promises of peace are not to lose faith entirely.
Published November 6, 2020

When Boris Johnson tells you that his government is determined to defend
the Good Friday Agreement – don’t believe a word of it.
Published October 23, 2020

The dramatic death took place 100 years ago this week of a revolutionary who became synonymous with Ireland’s fight for independence.
Published October 9, 2020

Majella O’Hare was just 12 years of age when she was shot twice in the back by a British paratrooper on her way to Mass in Whitecross, County Armagh, on August 16, 1976.
Published October 9, 2020

Many people outside Derry say - and others may frequently feel like saying - that the city does go on a bit about its grievances. This week is no exception, with another eruption of rage over Bloody Sunday.
Published October 2, 2020

Tuesday September 22nd, marked the 100th anniversary of the most
significant event in the War of Independence in Clare.
Published September 25, 2020

Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have this week called
for the current Garda Commissioner, former RUC Assistant Chief Constable
(ACC) Drew Harris, to resign from his post over his past connection to
collusion in the north of Ireland.
Published September 25, 2020

‘Unquiet Graves’ was on RTÉ ONE last night and it made for hard viewing.
Published September 19, 2020

Ireland is entering a decade of opportunity, according to Sinn Féin’s
Deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill.
Published September 11, 2020

The only surprise about the British government’s unilateral plans to
legislate for its own version of the procedures for operating the Irish
Protocol in the Withdrawal Agreement is that anyone is surprised.
Published September 11, 2020

The killings near Drumnakilly, County Tyrone, of brothers Martin and Gerald Harte, and Brian Mullen, three local IRA Volunteers, took place on 30th August 1988, 32 years ago this week.
Published September 4, 2020

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson intends to establish a Centenary Forum and a Centenary Historical Advisory Plan as part of his government’s plans to mark 100 years of the Northern state.
Published September 4, 2020

The shooting of a member of Britain’s Royal Irish Constabulary 100 years ago sparked weeks of anti-Catholic violence. An
account of an infamous episode in the town’s history which became known
as ‘The Burnings’.
Published August 28, 2020

Irish EU Commissioner Paul Hogan resigned on Thursday, the latest
casualty of a golf outing that showed how the class system works in
Ireland. A look at an ongoing story by Paulie Doyle, for Tribune
magazine.
Published August 28, 2020

Gaza’s electricity supply has been cut to around three hours a day as Israeli bombing of the besieged Palestinian enclave has continued for ten consecutive days.
Published August 21, 2020

The handling of the disappearance and death of Noah Donohoe has also
raised concerns about systemic racism in the North of Ireland.
Published August 21, 2020

Mickey Devine, from the Creggan in Derry city, was the tenth and final hunger striker to die in the 1981 fight against the criminalisation of Irish republican prisoners.
Published August 14, 2020

Violence, arrests, prosecutions and incarcerations are all avoidable
if we have clear and equal policing of both sides of the divide to
include managing illegal bonfires.
Published August 14, 2020

Belfast-based political activist Fra Hughes been asked by friends in Lebanon to highlight the following appeal.
Published August 7, 2020

John’s contribution to Irish politics cannot be underestimated. When
others talked endlessly about peace John grasped the challenge and
helped make peace happen.
Published August 7, 2020

In the middle of July 1920, thousands of “disloyal” workers in Belfast
were driven out of their workplaces by unionist mobs. In the immediate
aftermath, rioting between nationalists and unionists left nineteen
people dead. This outbreak marked the start of a period of violence that
left almost five hundred dead and which became known by nationalists as
“the Belfast pogrom.”
Published July 24, 2020

There is unanimity of approach among the establishment parties in the Oireachtas when it comes to a referendum on Irish Unity – they are against it.
Published July 17, 2020

A group of Scottish nationalists created a controversy this week when they symbolically 'closed the border' with England in a protest aimed at the coronavirus crisis. It signifies a new exhaustion in Scotland with a visibly collapsing England. An analysis of the increasingly popular idea of Scottish independence by Paul Kavanagh (weegingerdug).
Published July 11, 2020

In Ireland’s centuries long struggle for independence, exceptional men and women, heroes, emerged, which set them apart and around whom people rallied, inspired and motivated by them.
Published July 3, 2020

A century ago this month, conflict erupted in Derry with British state forces openly colluding with UVF gangs to quell the nationalist surge for independence.
Published June 12, 2020

Olaudah Equiano, a former slave and the author of an influential memoir, visited Dublin and Belfast in the 1790s, mingling among the most progressive voices of the day in Irish society.
Published June 5, 2020

Even though 47 years have passed, the family of Michael Leonard is still determined to find out the full truth about his murder by the RUC on a lonely country road in Fermanagh near the border with Donegal.
Published May 22, 2020

Kevin Meaghar looks at the state of the debate on Irish Unity as the idea continues to go mainstream.
Published May 22, 2020

This week the name of this place we live in caused a bit of a political stir. The Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar called Belfast members of Fine Gael, “overseas members” and a former Tyrone football player referred to Tyrone as “Up here in the UK”. But the truth is the names used for Ireland do matter and have always been contentious.
Published May 15, 2020

A review of the autobiographical book ‘Sisters in Cells’ by Bernadette Hyland.
Published May 8, 2020

A historical account of this week in 1916, when the executions of the Easter Rising leaders took place.
Published May 8, 2020

Are we really going to have shops and hairdressers open and journey distances extended at different times north and south for political reasons?
Published May 1, 2020

An extract from of the contribution by historian Stephen Coyle at The
Year of Revolution: 1920, seminar held by Sinn Féin Poblachtach in
Wynn’s Hotel on February 15, 2020.
Published April 24, 2020

A further extract from the Irish War of Independence and the IRA, 1916-1921,
by Colm McInerney
Published April 17, 2020

An extract from the Irish War of Independence and the IRA, 1916-1921, by Colm McInerney.
Published April 3, 2020

In this coronavirus pandemic, Ireland’s geographical advantage is being squandered by the adoption of very different approaches to dealing with the disease.
Published April 3, 2020

The necessary cancellation of Easter Rising Commemorations does not mean we should not celebrate these events.
Published March 27, 2020

A tribute to Tomás Mac Curtain, Cork Lord Mayor, who was born on 20 March 1884 and died on the same date in 1920, shot dead in his home.
Published March 20, 2020

A comment on the recent efforts to form a coalition government in Dublin by John Bandon.
Published March 13, 2020

A historical account of an incident in which the RIC opened fire on a crowd of hungry Ennis people as local food produce was being exported by landlords.
Published February 28, 2020

A police chief interfering in a country’s electoral process is something
we have come to expect – but usually in Third World dictatorships.
Published February 28, 2020

An essay originally written by Bobby Sands in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh
in 1979.
Published February 21, 2020

An analysis of the outcome of the general election and the current political
dynamic in the 26 Counties by Ruairi Creaney.
Published February 21, 2020

Regardless of when or whether Sinn Féin ends up in government, as Tony Blair’s former adviser Jonathan Powell says, the outcome of the election will make demands for movement on Irish unity stronger.
Published February 14, 2020

This state was founded by those who fought for Irish Independence between 1919 and
1921 and it would be bizzare if this state were to commemorate those who
fought to suppress it’s establishment.
Published January 10, 2020

The Government must go beyond deferral and scrap any plan now or in the
future to commemorate the role of the RIC and the DMP. The shallowness
and opportunism of their position on these events has been exposed. So
has the posturing of the Fianna Fáil Leader.
Published January 10, 2020

Michael Finucane, the eldest son of Pat Finucane and a practising lawyer
based in Dublin, on his response to revelations about the murder in
declassified papers.
Published January 3, 2020

A lot of emphasis on the fact that, after Thursday’s election, for the
first time there are more nationalist MPs than unionist; Sinn Féin and
the SDLP outnumber the DUP 9-8.
Published December 14, 2019

Unless you have been living under a rock, you can’t but have noticed
that the prospect of Irish reunification has been gaining ground these
past three years.
Published November 30, 2019

The following is the address by Saoradh chairperson Brian Kenna to the
party’s annual conference in Newry last weekend.
Published November 16, 2019

A review by Rory Carroll of ‘Burned - The inside story of the ‘cash for
ash’ scandal and Northern Ireland’s secretive new elite’, by Sam McBride.
Published November 16, 2019

On the night of 11 November 1982, two young IRA volunteers, Eugene Toman
and Sean Burns were sitting in another volunteer, Gervais McKerr’s house
in Lurgan, County Armagh, drinking tea, and waiting for a lift to a safe
house. The atmosphere was friendly and relaxed, according to a girl in
the McKerr house that night, with the lads joking as usual and enjoying
the company. Within a few hours, the three volunteers would be dead,
the first victims of an horrific shoot-to-kill policy by the RUC.
Published November 9, 2019

A hundred years ago this week, as it was struggling to suppress
Ireland’s fight for freedom, the British war cabinet first endorsed a
unionist proposal for setting up two devolved parliaments - one in
Dublin and one in Belfast. Historian Cormac Moore looks at the
background to Britain’s partition of Ireland.
Published November 2, 2019

Are the DUP right when they say that a border in the Irish Sea is a
serious threat to the union?
Published November 2, 2019

The editor of the Irish Bulletin, Kathleen Mary Napoli, was so involved
in the War of Independence that she accompanied the treaty delegation to
London. But she was informed she was not eligible for an IRA pension
because she was not officially a member of the organisation.
Published October 26, 2019

Máire was one of the most courageous and
visionary leaders Irish Republicanism has ever had, Gerry Adams writes.
Published October 26, 2019

This week marks the end of the 1981 hunger strike, in which ten
republican prisoners laid down their lives against the criminalisation
of their struggle for Irish freedom. The first hunger striker to die,
Bobby Sands, described the conditions inside the H-Blocks of Long Kesh
prison in September 1978.
Published October 5, 2019

What is the big sticking point on Boris’s Big Deal (BBD)? That’s easy –
he’s for putting in place customs checks/posts/huts/whatever you’re
having yourself.
Published October 5, 2019

Three months ago, during the July marches and rallies by the Orange
Order, the DUP declared that the centenary of the northern state in 2021
should be a public holiday and a source of celebration.
Published September 28, 2019

When unionists talk about consent, read a veto. It’s useful to remind
the Irish government of that.
Published September 28, 2019

Boris Johnson wants Ireland to abandon the backstop, the legal guarantee
of maintaining an open border after Brexit, as his price for signing a
deal with the European Union. But should Ireland give way and trust
London? History suggests that could be a mistake. Here are some
examples.
Published September 14, 2019

Gerry Adams looks back at the historic peace initiative of August 1994
when the Provisional IRA declared a ceasefire. (For Léargas).
Published August 30, 2019

Tierra Curry, a senior scientist at the US Center for Biological
Diversity, on the race to save the Amazon (for The Hill).
Published August 23, 2019

Fifty years ago this week in the space of five days, the north of
Ireland changed for ever.
Published August 17, 2019

This week 126 years ago – 31 July 1893 – the Gaelic League (Conradh na
Gaeilge) was founded. A look at the role it formed in the Easter Rising.
Published August 2, 2019

An analysis piece by Limerick academic Richard McMahon which was
published in both the Irish and British media this week
Published August 2, 2019

The right of citizens living outside the southern State to vote for the
President of Ireland is now a significant issue of debate, especially
here in Dublin. This is a campaign we should all get behind, writes Gerry Adams.
Published July 26, 2019

A series of events has taken place this week to mark the 50th
anniversary of the murder of Francie McCloskey, considered by many to
have been the first fatality of the current phase of the conflict.
Published July 19, 2019

Long before the deadly word ‘collusion’ entered into the public
vocabulary of the conflict, Teresa Kelly and her family experienced ‘collusion’ in all its
grotesque forms.
Published July 19, 2019

On the occasion of the royal visit to Scotland to mark the 20th
anniversary of the Edinburgh parliament, a Scottish republican examines
the future role of the British Royal family.
Published July 12, 2019

The Catalan independence movement has made a new show of strength in
Europe with a protest against the exclusion of its three MEPs.
Published July 5, 2019

British Army snipers killed five civilians at the Springhill estate in
west Belfast on 9 July 1972, eleven months after the Ballymurphy
massacre, and 47 years ago this week.
Published July 5, 2019

Miriam Daly, an Irish republican socialist and university lecturer, was
assassinated by the loyalist Ulster Defence Association (UDA) in a
killing which continues to provoke questions. Her body, bound and shot,
was found by her nine-year-old daughter after she returned from school
in Andersonstown, 39 years ago this week. In this interview, Anthony
Neeson spoke to Jim Daly, her widower
Published June 28, 2019

An analysis by Brian Feeney of the move by the Dublin government to
extend voting rights to northerners and emigrants in the case of
Presidential elections.
Published June 28, 2019

As the anniversary of Loughinisland is remembered, a look at an
extraordinary campaign for justice which continues to battle cover-up
and collusion.
Published June 22, 2019

A storm has exposed the bones of Irish children on a Canadian beach,
recalling a holocaust of greed that devastated Ireland and changed the
world.
Published June 15, 2019

Calls for Maria Bailey to be kicked out of Fine Gael for damaging the
party are unfair when she represents everything they stand for...
absolutely nothing but themselves.
Published June 8, 2019

Michael Gaughan was killed by the prison and medical authorities of
Parkhurst Prison on 3 June 1974, 45 years ago.
Published June 1, 2019

This week marks the 25th anniversary of the death of IRA Volunteer
Martin ‘Doco’ Doherty, who died defending a Sinn Fein function at the
Widow Scallans pub in Dublin from a bomb attack by the UVF.
Published May 25, 2019

Julian Assange continues to ripple and roam as a cipher through the
political and media scape of the world. Detained in Belmarsh maximum
security prison, the sort of stately abode only reserved for the most
dangerous of criminals, many with indeterminate sentences, he
electrifies and concerns.
Published May 4, 2019

A contemporaneous account of the last-ditch efforts to save the life
of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, who died this week 38 years ago.
Published May 4, 2019

An infamous event in Britain’s colonial occupation of India took place a
hundred years ago this week. A historical account of the massacre at
Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar on Apri 13, 1919.
Published April 13, 2019

An analysis piece from the Enniscorthy Guardian looks at how Scotland’s
approach to Brexit resonates in Ireland.
Published April 13, 2019

The fiasco that is Brexit, and the Tory and DUP shambles of a response
to it, have together opened up a willingness for a real and meaningful
conversation on Unity.
Published April 6, 2019

North Armagh-based human rights lawyer Rosemary Nelson was assassinated
20 years ago this week in an attack in which high-level collusion is still
suspected. A report by Beatrix Campbell on the smears and
disinformation which continued long after her death.
Published March 16, 2019

There may be only one thing that the Bloody Sunday families and the
defenders of the Parachute Regiment are agreed on following the
announcement that a former lance corporal is to be charged with two
murders and four attempted murders: that it is perverse and unfair that
one low-ranking soldier should be made to carry the can for what
happened in Derry 47 years ago.
Published March 16, 2019

A background to the continuing police harassment of two journalists
involved in making the film ‘No Stone Unturned’ by its director Alex
Gibney.
Published March 2, 2019

The International Court of Justice in The Hague has handed down a
momentous judgement that says Britain’s colonial authority over the
Chagos Islands is no longer legal. John Pilger, whose 2004 film,
Stealing a Nation, alerted much of the world to the plight of the
islanders, tells their story.
Published March 2, 2019

Sunday 24th February 2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the murder of
Sean McParland.
Published February 23, 2019

An intrinsic part of the Good Friday Agreement - an
agreement that brought peace and stability to the island of Ireland - is
quickly disappearing.
Published February 23, 2019

More than three and a half years - yes, three and a half years! - after
the conclusion of all the evidence in the inquest into the murder of
Roseanne Mallon, Sir Reginald Weir sat down in Nisi Prius court in
Belfast city centre and declared he could find neither direct nor
indirect evidence of collusion between the loyalist killers and any
state agency in the case.
Published January 12, 2019

The afterlife of the Nelson Pillar on O’Connell Street is every bit as
interesting as its lifespan, and from the late 1960s onwards various
committees and campaign groups lobbied with the aim of placing a
monument in the location where Nelson had stood.
Published December 15, 2018

The timing for making an argument for a Border Poll or as its now being
called a Unity Referendum has become a bone of contention. The
negativity about the timing of holding one is creating negativity at the
very time we need to examine the issue positively.
Published December 15, 2018

The general election of 1918 provided Sinn Fein with a democratic
endorsement both to establish Dail Eireann and proclaim a republic.
Published December 8, 2018

Excessive threatening language has long been part of political unionism’s response when faced with the prospect of change.
Published November 24, 2018

Bridget Dirrane is a remarkable person in the history of Ireland.
Published November 17, 2018

A community is, in the here and now, being
marginalised, penalised and discriminated against, the effect of which
is catastrophic. And the cause is their identity.
Published November 17, 2018

An account of the awakening of an Irish soldier who led a mutiny against
the British Army over its atrocities in India and Ireland, and his
subsequent execution, 98 years ago this week.
Published November 3, 2018

For a year now, I am held without bail and without even a trial date for having
defended fundamental rights in any democracy, such as the freedom of
speech and the freedom to meet and protest.
Published October 20, 2018

In the Ireland of 1922, a civil war tore through the land and in its
path it ripped apart families and friendships. It also created a deeper
wedge in an unstable society where the church grappled for top position
in an emerging new state.
Published October 13, 2018

Liadh Ni Riada is the youngest daughter of the iconic composer and
musician, Sean O’Riada. On Sunday she was confirmed as Sinn Fein’s
candidate for the Presidency of Ireland in next month’s election.
The following is the text of her campaign launch speech.
Published September 22, 2018

Before Bloody Sunday there was Ballymurphy. Its story must be told,
according to Callum Macrae, the director of The Ballymurphy Precedent,
a shorter version of which was broadcast on Channel 4.
Published September 15, 2018

A new film looking at the events leading up to and including the
Ballymurphy Massacre is having preview screenings across Ireland and
Britain in advance of a wider release.
Published August 18, 2018

DUP MP Ian Paisley has been found to have improperly lobbied on behalf
of Sri Lanka’s then Rajapaksa regime against accusations of war crimes
which targeted the minority Tamil population. Meet the Rajapaksas, in
this Channel 4 report from 2013.
Published July 28, 2018

An introduction to the life of Constance Georgine Markievicz, an Irish politician, suffragette, socialist and republican rebel.
Published July 21, 2018

Ireland is entitled to disassociate from what the EU itself condemns as
clear breaches of international law.
Published July 14, 2018

Michael Shaw Mahoney captures the Falls Curfew of July 1970 through the
eyes of the late Billy Curran (for the Pensive Quill).
Published July 7, 2018

Theresa May’s new list of working peers includes an ex-MP from the
proppers-up of her government, the Democratic Unionist Party: the Rev
William “Boxcar Willie” McCrea, veteran gospel-singing politician.
Published June 9, 2018

We may sometimes not like what History delivers, but being on the wrong
side of history can be painful.
Published June 2, 2018

Ghada Karmi is a Palestinian physician, academic and writer. Her latest
book is entitled Return: A Palestinian Memoir. Despite the recent
shocking events in Gaza, she sees hope for the Palestinian cause.
Published May 26, 2018

Rory Cormac, a professor of international relations specialising in
secret intelligence and covert action, has found archival evidence to
prove Edward Heath’s government directed ‘black ops’ on the streets of
Ireland.
Published May 19, 2018

The British Empire is a bit like the Cheshire cat in Lewis Carroll’s
Alice in Wonderland: over the years it has faded until all you’re left
with is a bland smile.
Published April 28, 2018

Sean McNeela and Tony D’Arcy died on hunger strike against the
criminalisation of republican prisoners at St Bricin’s Military
Hospital in Dublin, 78 years ago this week.
Published April 21, 2018

Another story of the many from the Easter Rising of 1916 -- the English
protestant printer who supplied the type for the Irish Proclamation.
Published March 31, 2018

Martin McGuinness was a good friend and a great leader. He made
compromises where he believed they could help peace and reconciliation.
He never stopped taking risks for peace, writes Gerry Adams.
Published March 24, 2018

On the 30th anniversary of IRA Volunteers Mairead Farrell, Sean Savage
and Dan McCann, murdered by the SAS in a shoot to kill operation on 6th
March 1988 in Gibraltar, Saoradh activist and former IRA POW Breige-Anne
McCaughley shares her memories of Volunteer Mairead Farrell.
Published March 10, 2018

The real Leo Varadkar was the one who stood up in the Dail last Tuesday
and the public would do well to remember that when his party comes
looking for votes in the near future.
Published March 3, 2018

The collapse of talks to restore the power sharing arrangement in
the North of Ireland has come as no surprise to many.
Published February 24, 2018

Contrasting views of the North’s Civil Rights Association and how it
relates to where we are as we approach the 50th anniversary of its first
campaign.
Published February 10, 2018

I’m sure that there is a little nervousness within Sinn Fein as Gerry
Adams steps down as president of the party, having led it to great
electoral success across Ireland, and having been, along with the late
Martin McGuinness, at the forefront of the republican struggle for
decades.
Published February 10, 2018

If the NI Retired Police
Officers’ Association wins on Loughinisland, it will have succeeded in closing down an
important official source of information about alleged collusion and its
scale, small or large. John Ware looks at a crucial upcoming ruling.
Published January 13, 2018

At last it’s becoming clear to the Brexiteers, and the right-wing
British media, that the question of the Irish border will be the
defining issue of the Brexit negotiations.
Published December 2, 2017

150 years on from their execution, a historical look back at three
Fenians whose bravery in giving their lives in struggle helped to
sustain it.
Published November 25, 2017

The Rohingya are often described as “the world’s most persecuted
minority”.
Published November 18, 2017

Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney exposes the collusion which
shielded the perpetrators of the 1994 Loughinisland massacre from
justice. The shocking No Stone Unturned finally names the chief suspects
while revealing the RUC’s deliberate mishandling of the multiple murder
inquiry.
Published November 18, 2017

Frank Stagg who died on hunger strike aged 33, had three funerals and
two burials. One funeral had no body and one burial was done in
darkness. His life is commemorated on three headstones in Leigue
Cemetery, Ballina, County Mayo.
Published November 11, 2017

Arthur James Balfour will, no doubt, be praised effusively by supporters
of Israel for a brief document he signed 100 years ago.
Published November 4, 2017

During the years of Franco’s dictatorship, Catalonia was one
of Spain’s strongholds of resistance, and the Catalan people suffered
enormously for it.
Published October 28, 2017

Twenty-five years ago, Sheena Campbell, then a 29-year-old law
student at Queen’s University, was shot dead by a UVF gang.
Published October 21, 2017

An open letter to the Irish people from Portlaoise jail by republican
political prisoner DD McLaughlin.
Published October 14, 2017

The Society of United Irishmen, founded in 1791, embraced Catholics,
Protestants and Dissenters in its aim to remove English control from
Irish affairs.
Published October 14, 2017

The response of the people of Catalonia to the violence of the Spanish
state was astonishing and I want to commend their bravery.
Published October 7, 2017

Ahead of the October 1 referendum on self-determination, the Spanish
government is engaged in a level of political repression in Catalonia
not experienced since the days of the Franco dictatorship.
Published September 30, 2017

The oration delivered by Tommy McKearney, a former Hunger
Striker, over the grave of Thomas Ashe at the national hunger strike
commemoration of the 1916 Societies.
Published September 30, 2017

A look at an infamous event in the Tan War in County Dublin, 97 years
ago this week.
Published September 23, 2017

The text of the oration delivered by Francis Mackey (pictured) of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement
at the graveside of Alan Ryan earlier this month.
Published September 16, 2017

The Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) has said it is supporting a
‘border poll’ on unity as part of a new campaign for a United Ireland
outside of the EU. An extract from its new policy
document, ‘Britain out of Ireland - Ireland out of the EU’.
Published September 9, 2017

IRA Volunteer Tom Williams was hanged at age 19 by the British on 2
September 1942, 75 years ago today.
Published September 2, 2017

The most successful prison break in Australian history was an
international rescue effort that took years to organise, and which
finally freed six Irish republicans from a British jail in Fremantle.
Published August 26, 2017

Seventy years after the partition of India, it is hard to look back without horror at the
savagery of the country’s vivisection.
Published August 19, 2017

For years the nationalist majority of Derry had suffered a unionist
gerrymander of the city which left many Catholics living in slum
conditions.
Published August 12, 2017

An abridged introduction to this week’s report of Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement and a summary of its recommendations.
Published August 5, 2017

A Tamil widow who says 10 of her relatives were massacred by Sri Lanka’s
police in 1986 has lodged a complaint with the Police Ombudsman in the
North after links from the RUC (now PSNI) to the country’s security
forces emerged.
Published July 29, 2017

A look at the evolution of internment, from a speech delivered by
National PRO of Republican Network for Unity, Nathan Stuart, at a picket
organised by the Anti-Internment Group For Ireland (AIGI).
Published July 15, 2017

The IRA assassination of British Field-Marshall Henry Wilson, 95 years
ago this week, was a turning point in Irish history, writes Rob Baker
Published July 1, 2017

A simple act of kindness 170 years ago by an Oklahoma Indian tribe was
celebrated in County Cork this week.
Published June 24, 2017

Sinn Fein chairperson Declan Kearney delivered the keynote address to the party’s annual Wolfe
Tone commemoration in Bodenstown last Sunday.
Published June 24, 2017

Grenfell Tower is a story of inequality, of the poor herded into a cramped building made unsafe because it was prettified to improve the view of the nearby rich.
Published June 17, 2017

A look at the results of the Westminster election in each
of the 18 constituencies in the Six Counties.
Published June 10, 2017

A quick look at each of the 18 Westminster constituencies in the North
of Ireland, and what to expect when the election results come rolling
in next week.
Published June 3, 2017

The last public hanging in England took place in London, outside Newgate
Prison (now the Old Bailey) on 26 May 1868, 149 years ago this week.
Published May 27, 2017

Thousands have been making their way to Belfast to support
the increasing calls for legislative protection for the Irish language,
in the form of an Irish language act.
Published May 20, 2017

In an interview published on the 30th anniversary of an infamous ambush,
a former Volunteer has provided an inside account of the Provisional
IRA’s single largest loss of life during the conflict.
Published May 13, 2017

A five year strategy to put Irish
republicanism ‘back into the driving seat of securing Irish unity’ was launched recently.
Published May 13, 2017

Some 1,500 Palestinian prisoners are currently engaged in a mass hunger strike over prison conditions and
internment without charge.
Published May 6, 2017

Monaghan Republican and Ex-POW John Crawley delivered a graveside
oration at a commemoration for Seamus McElwain in Scotstown recently.
Published April 29, 2017

Anne Cadwallader tells the story of the Hooded Men, internees subjected
to fine-tuned methods of torture, that left little physical evidence, imported by
Britain to Ireland in 1971.
Published April 22, 2017

A round up of Easter commemorative events by various organisations this
year. Please check locally for more information.
Published April 14, 2017

Saoradh Beal Feirste explain its opposition to the march of former British
soldiers through Belfast city centre on Good Friday.
Published April 7, 2017

Now that Article 50 has been triggered a period of what is likely to be
long and protracted negotiations will begin. The north will not be
represented at those negotiations.
Published April 1, 2017

The death of my friend and comrade Martin McGuinness has left a deep
void. It is a huge blow to all of us who knew and loved him, especially
his wife and family.
Published March 24, 2017

An account of the attack on Milltown cemetery, 29 years ago this week,
carried out by loyalist serial killer Michael Stone.
Published March 17, 2017

A historical account of the abortive republican insurrection of 1867, 150 years ago this week.
Published March 4, 2017

We are determined to rebuild the political process but it must be on the
basis of genuinely progressive power-sharing where we work with one
another in the best interests of everyone in society.
Published February 24, 2017

A former British soldier backs calls for prosecutions for the
Ballymurphy Massacre of 1971, when eleven unarmed civilians were killed
by the British Army.
Published February 17, 2017

Hundreds of people have commemorated the 25th anniversary of the murder
of five people by unionist paramilitaries at a betting shop in south Belfast
as well as the murder of three at a Sinn Fein office in west Belfast.
Published February 10, 2017

A description of how the Bloody Sunday killings set off an unprecedented
wave of protests in the 26 Counties - and prompted words but no action
from Jack Lynch’s government
Published February 3, 2017

Events to mark the annual commemoration of the Bloody Sunday massacre
begin this week in Derry building to the march and rally on Sunday,
January 29. A look at this year’s context and the programme of events,
which are spread over two weeks.
Published January 20, 2017

The full text of Martin McGuinness’s resignation letter, which was
addressed on Monday to Robert Newton, Speaker of the Stormont Assembly.
Published January 13, 2017

In January 1976, the Reaveys and O’Dowds - two Catholic families living
within 15 miles of each other in Co Armagh - each lost three loved ones
at the hands of a notorious Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) gang reputed to
contain dozens of members of the British Crown forces.
Published January 6, 2017

Ultimately homelessness and its causes will only be resolved by a
movement in policy towards housing that is based on citizenship as much
as profit, that puts human decency above uncaring ideology.
Published December 24, 2016

The story of two IRA men who were tortured and killed by British forces,
96 years ago this week.
Published December 17, 2016

December is the month when thoughts are traditionally with Irish
republican prisoners, and vigils have been taking place in their honour.
The following is a recent list of those who are supported by the two
largest Irish republican prisoner welfare organisations, underneath their
addresses.
Published December 10, 2016

Fidel was a friend to those engaged in the struggle for justice across
the world.
Published December 3, 2016

The full text of the address by RSF President Des Dalton to the 2016 Republican Sinn Fein Ard Fheis.
Published December 3, 2016

A look at the life and legacy of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, by French
author and historian Salim Lamran
Published November 26, 2016

A big arms find in UDA’s Belfast HQ in 1981 proved embarrassing for a
British government resisting calls to outlaw the group but trying to
appear even-handed. An extract from ‘A State in Denial: The British
Government and Loyalist Paramilitaries’ by Margaret Urwin.
Published November 19, 2016

A few snippets about the Tan War, or Irish War of Independence, which ran from January 1919 to July 1921, when the IRA first took on the
British constabulary and army forces.
Published November 19, 2016

On the 45th anniversary of the escape from Crumlin Road Jail by the
‘Crumlin Kangaroos’, an extract from ‘Internment’ by the late John
McGuffin on an extraordinary chapter in the republican struggle.
Published November 12, 2016

The daughter of a prominent republican shot dead in her hospital bed by
loyalists 40 years ago has said she wants to know who gave the order to
have her killed.
Published October 29, 2016

Thomas Russell spent a year promoting the
United Irish cause in Ulster among Presbyterians and
Catholics, becoming legendary as
“the man from God-knows-where”.
Published October 29, 2016

The campaign against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) at Standing
Rock Sioux reservation is a true symbol of unity and a defiance of
corporate interests being put before the people and the planet.
Published October 22, 2016

The oration delivered by Francie Mackey, chairman of the Irish
Republican Prisoners Welfare Association, at the Hunger Strike
commemoration in Duleek organised by the Duleek Hunger Strike Monument
Committee on Saturday, 17th September.
Published October 8, 2016

On September 23 1996, IRA volunteer Diarmuid O’Neill was shot dead
during an arrest operation by armed members of the Metropolitan Police
in Hammersmith, London, England.
Published October 1, 2016

An extract fro a new book examining
Britain’s record of covert government actions and cover-ups.
Published September 24, 2016

In 1943, the women interned by the northern government in Armagh Prison
went on hunger strike over their status and conditions in the jail.
Published September 17, 2016

President Michael D Higgins has said that an apology is due to Jimmy
Gralton, the only Irish person deported by an Irish government.
Published September 10, 2016

A look at the 1798 battle between British troops and Irish rebels led by
Henry Joy McCracken, as delivered at his annual commemoration last
weekend by RNU Vice-Chairperson Nathan Stuart
Published September 3, 2016

Former H3 blanketman Thomas Dixie Elliott gives his view of the
exchanges that took place inside Long Kesh as negotiations were taking
place to try to end the 1981 hunger strike.
Published September 3, 2016

A priest has spoken about God’s “perfect timing” after he officiated at
the joint funeral mass of a man murdered by British soldiers and the
wife who campaigned in his memory, despite them dying exactly 45 years
apart.
Published August 27, 2016

Michael Devine, known to his friends as Micky, died 35 years ago this
week after 60 days on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. A look
back at a life of struggle and a heroic death.
Published August 20, 2016

A look at the case of Palestinian hunger striker Bilal Kayed, now on
hunger strike for more than 66 days, in a cause which has striking
parallels with those of Irish republicans.
Published August 20, 2016

The Sack of Cashel (also known as the Massacre of Cashel) was a
notorious atrocity which occurred in County Tipperary in the year 1647.
Published August 13, 2016

An abridged transcript of a ‘controversial’ interview with former republican PoW Gerry McGeough this week by Martin Galvin for Radio Free Eireann.
Published August 13, 2016

Wednesday marked one hundred years since the execution
in London of the Irish Patriot and international humanitarian, Roger Casement. A look at how he lived the final days of his
life.
Published August 6, 2016

An examination of the economics of a divided Ireland.
Published July 30, 2016

‘Bobby Sands: 66 Days’ is a new documentary based around extracts from the
late republican’s prison diary by Brendan J Byrne. He spoke to David Roy
about making the film.
Published July 23, 2016

A referendum to give Irish people living abroad a vote in the
presidential election is planned for 2017, diaspora minister Joe McHugh
announced this week.
Published July 16, 2016

A republican commemoration for Wolfe Tone took place last Sunday,
organised by the 2016 Wolfe Tone Commemoration Committee. The following
is the speech delivered at the event in Bodenstown by Armagh
republican Paul Duffy.
Published July 9, 2016

Joe McDonnell died at 5am on Wednesday July 8, the fifth man to die on
hunger strike in the 1981 protest in the H-blocks. As republicans mark
the 35th anniversary of his death, a look at how it took place in the
context of a national and international outpouring of solidarity with
the prisoners.
Published July 9, 2016

The full text of 1916 rebel Roger Casement’s speech from the dock one
hundred years ago during his trial for treason, following his attempt to
land weapons in Kerry for the Easter Rising.
Published July 2, 2016

Responses from the Irish nationalist and republican political parties to
the Brexit referendum.
Published July 2, 2016

Pepe Escobar looks at why Britain voted to leave the European Union,
and what the future holds for both.
Published June 25, 2016

Two Irish republican viewpoints on this week’s referendum on British
membership of the EU.
Published June 18, 2016

The oration delivered by 32 County Sovereignty Movement Chairperson,
Francie Mackey at the graveside of IRA Vol. Ronan
MacLochlainn.
Published June 11, 2016

A miscarriage of justice victim has spoken out following the
announcement by Birmingham’s senior coroner that she is to reopen the
inquest into the 1974 bombings in the city, in which 21 people died.
Published June 4, 2016

There have been calls for a fresh investigation into the death of the
first victim of the recent conflict, who was shot by the UVF 50 years
ago.
Published June 4, 2016

Nationalists, republicans and socialists are coming together
to support a campaign for the release from his internment of prominent
Derry republican Tony Taylor.
Published May 28, 2016

Republicans from Tyrone and its Monaghan and Armagh
hinterland gathered at the Drumfurrer Monument to IRA Volunteers Jim
Lynagh and Padraig McKearney for a family-led Independent Commemoration for the Loughgall martyrs.
Published May 21, 2016

Short biographies of all of the executed leaders in
the aftermath of the 1916 Rising, including nine who were not
signatories of the Proclamation of the Republic.
Published May 14, 2016

In an excerpt from her memoirs, Nora Connolly O’Brien talks about her father’s final days and the courage and inspiration
that James Connolly gave to her and continues to give to republicans
today.
Published May 14, 2016

A reprint of an article from The Starry Plough, detailing a historic
escape by Republican Socialists from Long Kesh prison 40 years ago this
week.
Published May 7, 2016

An account by Dublin mother Erica Fleming of her attempts to cope after
her family were suddenly left homeless as a result of the housing crisis.
Published April 30, 2016

Charles Monahan was the first Belfast casualty of 1916, dying in the aborted Irish Republican Brotherhood mission to seize key British wireless radio equipment in Caherciveen.
Published April 23, 2016

A graveside oration by Monaghan Republican and Ex-PoW John Crawley for ‘The Bold McElwain’ in Scotstown ahead of
his 30th anniversary commemoration.
Published April 16, 2016

Eoin MacNeill contributed directly to the 1916 Easter Rising by establishing, arming
and training the Irish Volunteers. His last-minute intervention to call
off the Rising continues to fuel historical debate.
Published April 16, 2016

Incredibly the modern state of Ireland has now paid tribute to
perpetrators of the North King Street Massacre, to the murderers of
Irish men and boys, by adding their names to the newly erected Glasnevin
1916 Remembrance Wall.
Published April 9, 2016

The full text of the keynote speech to mark the 100th
anniversary of the Easter Rising, delivered by Sinn Fein leader Gerry
Adams at Milltown cemetery in Belfast last weekend.
Published April 2, 2016

A reportage-style account of the combat that took place during the
Easter Rising. The second in a two-part series.
Published April 2, 2016

A reportage-style account of the combat that took place during the Easter
Rising. The first in a two-part series.
Published March 26, 2016

Short biographies of the seven rebels who signed Ireland’s historic
declaration of independence in 1916. The second in a two-part series.
Published March 19, 2016

Short biographies of the seven rebels who signed Ireland’s historic
declaration of independence in 1916. The first in a two-part series.
Published March 12, 2016

A monument to a British imperialist in the centre of Dublin, Nelson’s
Pillar on O’Connell Street, was blown up by republicans fifty years ago
this week.
Published March 5, 2016

The fascinating story of the two
Ceannt brothers, Eamonn the Easter Irish Revolutionary, and, Bill the
Great War British soldier, illustrates the diverse allegiances amongst
families and the political complexity of Ireland in the early part of
the 20th Century.
Published February 27, 2016

A summary of the policy principles of the progressive Right2Change
alliance and a list of those candidates in this year’s general
election who have signed up to those principles.
Published February 20, 2016

I believe that my incarceration, the constitutional violations in my
case, and the government misconduct in prosecuting my case are issues
far more important than just my life or freedom.
Published February 13, 2016

Three valuable hours of
my life has been wasted on what RTE describes as a ‘commemorative drama’ to herald the beginning of the Centenary year of the 1916 revolution.
Published February 6, 2016

In the aftermath of the 1916
Rising and the releases from Frongoch internment camp that autumn, the Sinn Féin
movement was re-organised in Belfast in early 1917, and the first Easter Commemoration Parade in the city was part of that process.
Published January 30, 2016

Former H Block blanketman Gerard Hodgins spoke this week at the
Foresters Club in West Belfast in honour of the late IRA volunteer,
Paddy Joe Rice. The event was hosted by the Anne Devlin Society,
Belfast.
Published January 30, 2016

The commemorative programme for 2016 reflects the diversity of those
whose experiences are shared by the people of Derry, across the North, as well as across Ireland and Britain.
Published January 23, 2016

Civil Rights Campaigner Vincent Coyle appeals for support for this
year’s Bloody Sunday march.
Published January 16, 2016

A round-up of statements issued by republicans to mark the New Year.
Published January 9, 2016

An official 1916 centenary calendar is a further example of the collaborative nature of the 26
County state, writes RSF National PRO Sean O Dubhlain.
Published December 30, 2015

Michael Nicholson is one of the world’s most decorated journalists,
reporting from 18 different war zones over a 45-year career. While writing his new
novel, he changed his mind about England's guilt over Ireland’s Great Hunger.
Published December 19, 2015

We are on the eve of a momentous year -- this time a
hundred years ago republican men and women were planning the overthrow
of the British Empire in Ireland.
Published December 19, 2015

December is the traditional month for republicans to think of our
political prisoners. We publish list of IRPWA and Cogus
prisoners behind bars this Christmas.
Published December 12, 2015

People in Wales have called on the governments in Dublin and Cardiff to
provide a permanent commemorative centre in Frongoch, where 1,800
Irishmen were interned after the 1916 Rising.
Published December 5, 2015

A progressive campaign group has launched a petition to encourage the
Dublin government to act responsibly to help prevent catastrophic
climate change.
Published December 5, 2015

In a ruling closely watched in the north of Ireland, relatives of
innocent Malayans slain by British troops in 1948 have lost their fight
for an inquiry, even though the British courts have admitted that mass
murder occurred.
Published November 28, 2015

McGurk’s Bar activist, Robert McClenaghan, writes on the reality of
Britain’s inability to face up to its human rights abuses, and how this
now becomes his own ticking clock dilemma.
Published November 21, 2015

To
suggest that Britain was a benevolent colonial power is an offensive
myth that must be de-bunked.
Published November 13, 2015

The McGlinchey family of Bellaghy suffered tragedy anew this week with
the sudden death of Declan, a lifelong republican activist who died of a
suspected heart attack on Sunday.
Published November 6, 2015

John O’Neill (‘the Treason Felony blog’) recounts an incident seen as a
key event in the re-organisation of the IRA in Belfast shortly after the
end of the Irish Civil War.
Published October 31, 2015

Michael Fitzgerald, Joseph Murphy and Terence MacSwiney died on hunger
strike on 17 and 25 October 1920, respectively, 95 years ago this week.
Published October 23, 2015

Relatives of those killed in the infamous Bloody Sunday massacre have
denounced a police ‘investigation’ into the murders after it emerged
that 55 British soldiers present that day are refusing to be questioned.
Published October 16, 2015

The result of recent elections have confirmed the perception that a majority of
Catalans are ready to begin a democratic, peaceful, civil and
negotiated process to achieve an independent state for Catalonia.
Published October 10, 2015

Brian Friel, who has died aged 86, was the best-known Irish playwright
of his generation. Translations, about the low-level repression of Irish
culture in the 19th century, remains his most celebrated, while Dancing
at Lughnasa was his most successful, winning three Tony Awards in 1992.
Published October 3, 2015

The address delivered by the Chairperson of Republican
Network for Unity Carl Reilly, at his party’s annual conference in Newry
on Saturday, 26th September
Published October 3, 2015

Like many other men and women before and since
Tomas Ceannt demonstrated incredible courage and selflessness in the
struggle to free Ireland from British occupation.
Published September 26, 2015

Bill Peterson looks at the extraordinary military campaign of France’s
General Humbert 217 years ago this week, which some historians say laid
the groundwork for the Easter Rising over a century later.
Published September 5, 2015

In a wide-ranging interview,
Sinn Fein’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness insists that a
united Ireland is inevitable.
Published August 15, 2015

A row has broken out over rival commemorations to mark the hundredth
anniversary of the funeral of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, one of the most
significant events in the lead up to the 1916 Easter Rising.
Published August 1, 2015

The 1916 Societies recently launched a petition for an All-Ireland
Referendum on Irish Unity. This address on the campaign is by Barry
Monteith, an independent Councillor from Tyrone, with a link to the
petition.
Published August 1, 2015

A number of events are planned to mark the centenary of the funeral of
Irish patriot Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa of the Irish Republican
Brotherhood. An account of his life, and the full text of the famous
oration delivered by Patrick Pearse at his graveside, one hundred years
ago this week.
Published July 25, 2015

The democratic opposition of the Greek people to austerity has been
overthrown by the EU capitalist system with the collaboration of the
Syriza leadership, according to the IRSP.
Published July 18, 2015

Before us lies an unprecedented opportunity to reintroduce that
sense of comradeship that is desperately required, according to Francie Mackey of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement.
Published July 11, 2015

The Falls Road curfew of the summer of 1970 is regarded as a major
turning point in the early history of the conflict.
Published July 4, 2015

Thirty years ago, Seamus Ruddy disappeared in France. Dominique Foulon,
former editor of Irland Libre and Solidarite Irlande, calls for his body
to be returned to his family.
Published June 27, 2015

Collusion has never had a place in democratic values. It remains a grim
monument to the failure of colonialism and tragedy of partition.
Published June 20, 2015

Few question the value to our country’s sense of itself of that language
which is uniquely ours.
Published June 13, 2015

A new film ecords the stories primarily of republican women (activists in the
IRA and Cumann na mBan) who were imprisoned in Armagh gaol and
Maghaberry prison during the armed conflict.
Published June 13, 2015

A Police Ombudsman investigation is reported to have uncovered serious
concerns about collusion in the murder of Sinn Fein councillor Eddie
Fullerton. A look back at an infamous assassination, 24 years ago this
month.
Published June 6, 2015

Ireland’s emigrant voting legislation remains among the most restrictive
in Europe, despite calls for reform dating back to the last mass exodus
of the 1980s.
Published May 30, 2015

There is a forgotten victim of Mullaghmore - another
life lost as a result of British interference in Ireland’s affairs -
another victim of Britain’s dirty war in Ireland.
Published May 23, 2015

A look at the life and death of prominent Belfast republican, Sean McCaughey, who died on hunger-strike in Portlaoise prison on May 11, 1946.
Published May 16, 2015

A constituency-by-constituency look at the Westminster election
results for each of the 18 seats in the North.
Published May 9, 2015

A round-up of the 18 Irish constituencies being contested in the
Westminster general election on Thursday.
Published May 2, 2015

With many governments still failing to acknowledge it, including those
in Dublin and London, we present a brief history of the Armenian
genocide, one hundred years ago today.
Published April 25, 2015

There was an extraordinary number and diversity of Easter commemorations
this year as many organisations, republican and otherwise, held events
with a view to the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising next year.
Published April 11, 2015

A selection of the speeches and orations delivered at the 2015 Easter
commemorations.
Published April 11, 2015

The second in a two-part historical feature on the 1916 Easter Rising.
Published April 4, 2015

A round up of Easter commemorative events by republican organisations this
year. Please check locally for more information. UPDATED April 3rd.
Published March 28, 2015

From the foundation of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) to the
fateful days of Easter 1916, when Irish Volunteers took to the streets
to fight for our freedom. The first in a two-part historical feature.
Published March 28, 2015

A researcher at Amnesty International recalls Gerry McKerr, one of the Hooded Men, who passed away this week as his case against torture continues before the European Court of Human Rights.
Published March 21, 2015

Laws stating that Queen Elizabeth is the king of Ireland and that anyone
selling horses outside greater Dublin shall die are to be repealed, the
Dublin government has announced.
Published March 14, 2015

Hanna
Sheehy-Skeffington devoted most of her life to campaigning for the
rights of women and Ireland’s independence.
Published March 7, 2015

On open letter by blogger Ciaran Tierney on last weekend’s hostile live
television interview of Paul Murphy TD by Ryan Tubridy, presenter of
the Irish state broadcaster’s main light entertainment programme, the
Late Late show.
Published February 28, 2015

The family and friends of a South Armagh man have condemned his continued
imprisonment pending a possible prosecution in regard to the 1998 Omagh
bomb attack.
Published February 21, 2015

A new mural calling for people to join the UDA was recently painted in
Carrickfergus, County Antrim, prompting fears that the unionist
paramilitary group is again recruiting.
Published February 14, 2015

A campaign to change the way the tragic events of 1845-1850 are recounted.
Published February 7, 2015

The address by Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness to his party’s Six-County
AGM in Omagh last weekend.
Published January 31, 2015

The Bloody Sunday March for Justice programme will see a raft of civil
rights events and speeches held in Derry. This year’s programme of
events has been themed ‘Resist’.
Published January 24, 2015

An open letter written by miscarriage of justice victims Brendan
McConville and John-Paul Wootton, followed by a recent synopsis of the
case.
Published January 24, 2015

A group of concerned individuals has established “Reclaim the Vision of
1916--A Citizens’ Initiative for 2016,” in order to reassert the
political principles and objectives that animated the 1916 Rising and to
show their continuing relevance for Ireland today.
Published January 10, 2015

There was news this week that the prosecution of former RUC members over
their abuses of nationalist youths in the original ‘Derry Four’ case has been
inexplicably dropped, following communications between Crown prosecutors
and the Police Ombudsman. In this article, Martin Galvin looks back at a
notorious episode in policing in the North.
Published December 20, 2014

Like many Irish people, I wonder how I could have studied a language for
13 years, and, in my head, find nothing but a few straggling nouns and
the sense of dread that I carried into the classroom each day.
Published December 13, 2014

Declassified British government documents relating to a secret
‘interrogation centre’ were released to the press in August 2013 and one
of those hooded, beaten and subjected to brutal psychological
‘techniques’ then told his story.
Published December 6, 2014

December is the traditional month for republicans to think of our
political prisoners. A list of the IRPWA and Cogus supported prisoners behind bars this Christmas.
Published December 6, 2014

The Stormont parties have been embarrassed by reports that 35,000 water
meters have been secretly installed at homes across the Six Counties at
a cost of more than 13 million pounds.
Published November 29, 2014

This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of single largest battle
between republicans and the British army of the conflict.
Published November 22, 2014

The text of a speech delivered by Republican Sinn Fein
Vice-President Cait Trainor to a group of American Students on
the theme, ‘Will there be a United Ireland?’
Published November 15, 2014

Last Saturday was the anniversary of the execution by the British of 18
year old Kevin Barry. He was hanged on November 1st 1920.
Published November 8, 2014

All republican and left-wing groups have committed to support local
demonstrations taking place today [Saturday, November 1] in every county
across Ireland as part of the ‘Right2Water’ campaign. The protests
are expected to be the largest Ireland has seen in decades.
Published November 1, 2014

In an interview, west Belfast woman Flo O’Riordan recalled the night her
two best friends were murdered, 43 years ago this week.
Published October 25, 2014

British military intelligence agents in the north of Ireland used fears
about demonic possessions, black masses and witchcraft as part of a
psychological war against emerging armed groups in the conflict in the
1970s, they have admitted.
Published October 18, 2014

The Dublin government has been urged to do more to maintain contact with
its emigrant population after a deceased Galway man was only saved from
an unmarked grave in England by the efforts of a deaths registration
official in London and a retired school teacher.
Published October 11, 2014

An introduction to the Right2Water campaign and its petition.
Published October 11, 2014

This week we recall the Irish Republican revolutionary and martyr,
Thomas Ashe, who suffered a brutal death at the hands of his British
oppressors at the age of thirty-two.
Published September 27, 2014

Telling Scotland not to “go” is a bit like saying: “We don’t want
you to run your own affairs. You must always have the governments we
give you.”
Published September 6, 2014

This week marks the 40th anniversary of the escape from Portlaoise
prison of 19 republican prisoners of war.
Published August 23, 2014

Those who left behind poverty in Ireland only to die in
America’s internal conflict should also be remembered.
Published August 16, 2014

The text of the speech delivered by the IRSPs Michael McLaughlin
at the 33rd Kevin Lynch Commemoration in Dungiven earlier this month.
Published August 16, 2014

Last year 30,000 men in California’s prisons went on hunger strike against
solitary confinement.
Published August 9, 2014

Protestors at a British royal military ceremony were attacked by Gardai
police off camera as an ongoing battle to rewrite the history of events
one hundred years ago played out live on Irish television.
Published August 2, 2014

Francie Mackey, Chairperson of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement,
delivered the main address at the organisation’s annual gathering at the
grave of Wolfe Tone in Bodenstown recently.
Published July 26, 2014

With no rising in sight in Ulster despite the signal coming from Dublin,
one man seized the initiative and assembled the United Irish forces to
assert Ireland’s right to independence. That man was Henry Joy
McCracken, who died 216 years ago this month.
Published July 19, 2014

Two women are interviewed about conditions where they live since Israel began intensifying
its war on Palestinians nearly four weeks ago.
Published July 12, 2014

A look at the effect of British colonial betrayal a century ago
on the Middle East of today.
Published July 5, 2014

An account of the events leading to the Guildford 4 and Maguire 7
miscarriages of justice, adapted from Bob Woffinden’s 1987 book
‘Miscarriages of Justice’.
Published June 28, 2014

The 40th Anniversary of the death of IRA Volunteer Michael Gaughan, who
died while on Hunger Strike in Parkhurst Prison, took place earlier this
month.
Published June 21, 2014

An account of the battle which ended the United Irish Rebellion in
Ulster, 216 years ago this week.
Published June 14, 2014

Facts and figures of a historic election for Sinn Fein, in which it won
21% of the national vote across all 32 counties and officially became
the largest party in Ireland.
Published May 31, 2014

A number of events took place last weekend to remember those killed in
the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, and wreathes were laid at the Talbot
Street memorial in Dublin and in Monaghan town centre.
Published May 22, 2014

The 26-County Minister for Finance Michael Noonan took part in a
grovelling welcoming party for billionaire businessman Donald Trump at
Shannon airport earlier this week.
Published May 17, 2014

The most recent compiled list of Sinn Fein and other
republican candidates contesting this week’s elections, with short
biographies of the Euro candidates.
Published May 17, 2014

His four days of interrogation was an assault on the peace process itself, writes Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams.
Published May 10, 2014

A petition calling for a children’s play park to continue to be named
after IRA hunger striker Raymond McCreesh has so far received more than
1,000 signatures of support.
Published May 3, 2014

A round up of the statements and orations delivered this week to mark
the anniversary of the Easter Rising in 1916.
Published April 26, 2014

Dave Kenny’s family is steeped in Easter Rising history. Here he recalls
finding a letter from the Eamonn Ceannt’s son, revealing how he lived
his life in his father’s shadow.
Published April 26, 2014

A committee of the Dublin parliament has recommended that Travellers be
recognised as an ethnic minority to combat discrimination as the issue
begins featuring in local election campaigns in the 26 Counties.
Published April 19, 2014

A struggle to free Ireland of foreign domination resulted in a heroic
victory -- but the death of a great Irish leader -- a thousand years
ago this week.
Published April 19, 2014

Relations between Britain and Ireland have now
entered the realm of the surreal.
Published April 11, 2014

The revolutionary women’s movement, Cumann na mBan, was set up 100 years
ago this week. It maintained the struggle for independence following the
Easter Rising and in 1921 became the first organisation to reject the
treaty which partitioned Ireland. A look at their stand
for equality and unity.
Published April 5, 2014

79-year-old Irish peace activist Margaretta D’Arcy’s was this week
released from prison, after serving a three month sentence for
protesting the use of Shannon Airport by those engaged in war crimes.
Published March 29, 2014

Gerry Conlon and Paddy Hill, two men who suffered among the worst
miscarriages of justice in British history have accused the Irish and
British governments of turning their backs on innocent people sent to
prison.
Published March 22, 2014

Seventy-one years ago Derry republican Hugh McAteer pulled off a series
of daring feats and in the process made headlines around the world.
Michael McMonagle looks at his extraordinary life.
Published March 22, 2014

Former British cabinet minister and lifelong radical Tony Benn died
today [Friday] at the age of 88.
Published March 15, 2014

There are events in one’s life, big and small, which are life-defining
and life-shaping, even though at the time you might not know it.
Meeting Bobby Sands for the first time became for me life-defining.
Published March 15, 2014

Eirigi press officer Stephen Murney has given an account of the
physical and mental torture he endured while interned at Maghaberry
prison, outside Lisburn over the past 14 months.
Published March 8, 2014

The reflections of a group of republican women ex-prisoners and the
trauma, emotional and physical, that many of these women suffered and
overcame during their time in prison.
Published March 8, 2014

As preliminary hearings into his inquest get underway, a look at the
murder of Sam Marshall, a close friend of veteran Irish Republican Colin
Duffy, which took place 24 years ago this week, and the efforts of
assassinated human rights lawyer Rosemary Nelson to pursue justice in
the case.
Published March 1, 2014

The Basque armed group ETA has made a significant step towards
decommissioning the weapons used in its campaign for independence and
freedom -- but the Spanish government immediately rejected the move.
Published February 21, 2014

The widow of Pat Finucane has said she believes the full truth behind
his murder has yet to be exposed - but when it is, it will affect other
families.
Published February 15, 2014

In an address to the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis this [Friday] evening, Declan
Kearney examines the state of the political process in the north of
Ireland.
Published February 7, 2014

Breandan Mac Cionnaith, general secretary of eirigi, sets out his
party’s views on the conflict in the Six Counties and the challenge to
republicanism.
Published February 7, 2014

Despite the report of the Saville Inquiry in 2010, Eamonn McCann doesn’t
believe that the British have told the whole truth about Bloody Sunday.
Published January 31, 2014

A new collection of personal stories contained in the Military Service
Pensions Collection has now been published online.
Published January 17, 2014

A look at the background and current context of this year’s Bloody
Sunday March for Justice, which will mark the anniversary of a massacre
in which 14 civil rights protestors were shot dead by the British Army.
Published January 11, 2014

As politicians examine the issue of flags and symbols, a look at the
Gal Greine or Sunburst Flag (Banner), one of the few symbols that can
claim to have authentic native Irish roots.
Published January 4, 2014

A round-up of the statements issued at the turn of the New Year by
various republican groups.
Published January 4, 2014

A review of the other main stories which emerged from this year’s
release of previously classified papers under the 30-year rule.
Published December 28, 2013

Christmas is the time when republicans traditionally think of those
imprisoned for their beliefs by sending them a greeting card.
Published December 20, 2013

A group of brave Dubliners are currently in South Africa to attend the
funeral and other events to commemorate the life of the former South
African President, revolutionary and statesman Nelson Mandela. This is
their story and their lesson.
Published December 14, 2013

I want to extend to the family of President Mandela, to President Zuma
and to the people of South Africa, my sincere and heartfelt condolences
at the death of Madiba on my own behalf and that of Sinn Fein.
Published December 6, 2013

The Irish Volunteers, the organisation which would later lead to
the IRA, was publicly launched 100 years ago this week.
Published November 29, 2013

The Scottish National Party has published a booklet of detailed
proposals for Scottish independence, including the planned independence
day -- Easter Thursday 2016, just days before the 100th anniversary of
Ireland’s Easter Rising.
Published November 29, 2013

An account by BBC investigative journalist John Ware on what he learned
about “Britain’s secret terror force”, the Military Reaction Force
Published November 23, 2013

The address was delivered to the annual conference of the 32
County Sovereignty Movement last weekend by National Chairman Francis Mackey.
Published November 23, 2013

There is a need for a reasoned discussion on how
greater co-operation can deliver for the people north and south.
Published November 15, 2013

The full text of the Presidential Address by Des Dalton at
the annual conference of Republican Sinn Fein, which was held last weekend
Published November 8, 2013

An agreed truth recovery process is needed, not only for all the North's
bereaved families but for our communities to learn and move
forward.
Published November 1, 2013

Irish rebels against British rule established a government at Kilkenny
on October 20 1642, 371 years ago this week. An account of how
Ireland's first national Assembly came about.
Published October 25, 2013

The centenary of an address by nationalist Roger Casement to win the
hearts and minds of Protestant Home Rulers at a rally in north Antrim
will be marked next week.
Published October 18, 2013

An account of the 1983 Long Kesh prison breakout, which occurred 30 years
ago this week.
Published September 27, 2013

Robert Emmet, hero of the 1803 rising, was executed 210 years ago today.
The following is the speech he made on the eve of his execution.
Published September 20, 2013

Four Irish TDs recently visited the prison MI5 sting victim Michael Campbell
is being held in in Lithuania, and were horrified by the conditions he
endures.
A campaign is underway to apply pressure on the 26 County Department of
Justice Alan Shatter and the Dept of Foreign Affairs, as well as the
Lithuanian authorities, for some resolution to this horror.
Published September 13, 2013

Jim McIlmurray writes on the continued internment of republican Martin
Corey on the Lurgan internee’s 63rd birthday.
Published September 6, 2013

The western powers are champing at the bit to increase
their leverage in Syria’s grisly struggle for power
Published August 30, 2013

The most militant traditions of Irish workers are expressed in one word:
Larkinism.
Published August 23, 2013

The speech delivered by
Martin McGuinness to the John Joe McGirl Commemoration, Ballinamore,
County Leitrim, on Saturday 17th August.
Published August 23, 2013

In 1969, a sectarian mob burned 1,500 residents from their homes on
Bombay Street, Belfast, 44 years ago this week, helping to give rise to the Provisional IRA:
Published August 17, 2013

The location of a secret camp used to torture 14 victims of internment,
long kept secret by the British government, has finally been exposed.
Published August 9, 2013

The address delivered by Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams at the
MacGill Summer School in County Donegal on the topic of ‘How
stands the Republic’
Published August 2, 2013

An account of one of the first revolutionary acts of the 1916 Rising,
the Howth gun-running in Dublin, and the subsequent Bachelor’s Walk
massacre, also in Dublin, 99 years ago this week.
Published July 26, 2013

eirigi have issued an urgent action alert for the release of interned
political activist Stephen Murney.
Published July 19, 2013

The oration delivered at the grave of Wolfe Tone last
weekend by Francie Mackey, National Chairman, 32 County Sovereignty
Movement.
Published July 12, 2013

The most unsettling aspect of the Anglo Irish Bank tapes is not the executives' swearing, greed or arrogance, according to Fintan O'Toole. It's that we know they were right to assume they could get away with anything.
Published July 5, 2013

Irish soldiers fighting for the British Army in India went on strike
after hearing of British war crimes in Ireland on June 28 1920, 93 years
ago this week.
Published June 28, 2013

A week of action from 21st - 30th of June 2013 in Aughoose,
Pullathomas, County Mayo. Make this the week you come to visit Rossport.
Published June 21, 2013

An account of the battle which ended the United Irish Rebellion in
Ulster, 215 years ago this week, by Marcas Mac Ruairi.
Published June 14, 2013

After six months detention in Maghaberry jail as a result of his
republican beliefs, prominent eirigi activist Stephen Murney calls for
the end of internment.
Published June 7, 2013

A symbolic, if costly, attack by the IRA in Dublin during the War of
Independence took place 92 years ago this week.
Published May 31, 2013

Fifteen civilians were shot or bayoneted to death by soldiers from the
South Staffordshire regiment towards the end of the Easter Rising.
Published May 24, 2013

The following oration was delivered by former councillor Pat McNamee at
the graveside of former colleague Jim McAllister who died of cancer last month.
Published May 10, 2013

Former republican hunger striker Gerard Hodgkins delivered the 2013
annual Brendan Hughes memorial lecture in Derry on the 1st of May.
Published May 10, 2013

An open letter was issued on behalf of Brendan and John Paul
by the 'Justice for the Craigavon Two' group ahead of the opening of their appeal this week
Published May 3, 2013

Why are Irish people still fascinated with Frank Ryan despite the fact
that he has been dead since 1944, nearly 70 years ago?
Published May 3, 2013

The Great Hunger of 1845-52 raises questions that are still unanswered, and last weekend, historians, students, and members of the public gathered at Fordham
University to discuss them.
Published April 26, 2013

On Tuesday, April 16th, 2013, Lurgan man Martin Corey will have spent
three years in Maghaberry Prison without any charges ever being placed
against him.
Published April 19, 2013

A round-up of some of the key addresses and statements issued by republican groups to mark the anniverary of the Easter Rising.
Published April 5, 2013

A list of this weekend’s republican commemorations by the different
political organisations involved.
Published March 29, 2013

Republican Network for Unity (RNU) has outlined its opposition to the
Good Friday Agreement after announcing that it will field candidates in
future local elections throughout Ireland.
Published March 22, 2013

An article by Aine Fox highlighting the situation of republican prisoner
Michael Campbell, currently held in a Lithuanian jail.
Published March 15, 2013

Mairead Farrell was 31 when she was assassinated by the SAS in Gibraltar
Sunday March 6th 1988, 25 years ago this week.
Published March 8, 2013

Stephen Murney's family, friends and party colleagues are determined to secure his
release and to expose the corrupt and unjust nature of the Six County
state.
Published February 22, 2013

Yesterday David Ford rejected the suitability of a new body scanner for
use in the prison estate based on a highly dubious report.
Published February 15, 2013

An article by imprisoned éirígí member Stephen Murney,
currently held in Maghaberry prison, on his experiences.
Published February 8, 2013

Despite freezing conditions, over five thousand people attended the
annual Bloody Sunday march this year to commemorate the massacre of 14
civil rights demonstrators in Derry in 1972 and demand an ‘end to
impunity’ for those responsible.
Published February 1, 2013

The homily delivered by Mgr. Raymond Murray, her prison chaplain at
Armagh jail and a lifelong friend, at the funeral on Monday of Dolours
Price.
Published February 1, 2013

US radio talk show host Sandy Boyer (SB) interviewed Bernadette
Devlin-McAliskey (BDM) about this weekend’s Bloody Sunday March in Derry.
A transcript of that interview, which also ranges over
other matters.
Published January 25, 2013

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams argues that the North of Ireland is in transition and is no longer ‘an orange state’.
Published January 18, 2013

Three teens were among 7 IRA ‘irregulars’ executed in the civil war 90
years ago in Kildare. A historical article by Robert Doyle.
Published January 11, 2013

A further look at the archives of government papers, mostly from
the year 1982,
which were released ahead of the New Year period in Dublin, London and Belfast.
Published January 4, 2013

The New Year is traditionally a time for Sinn Fein and republican groups
to issue statements to their supporters. We present a round-up
of the statements issued this year.
Published January 4, 2013

A look at some of the other stories which emerged from initial
reviews of the archived classified papers, partially declassified
in Dublin, Belfast and London this week under the ‘30 years rule’.
Published December 28, 2012

A commemoration event in memory of Joe McKelvey, Liam Mellows, Richard
Barrett and Rory O’Connor took place in Belfast’s Milltown Cemetery
on December 8.
Published December 21, 2012

An open letter from JP Wootton, who is attempting to highlight a major
miscarriage of justice in his conviction for a fatal gun attack on a
PSNI patrol in 2009.
Published December 7, 2012

December is the traditional month to remember Irish political prisoners
and to drop them a card or letter of support.
Published December 2, 2012

The previously unknown story of Australian diggers who fought in the Irish
War of Independence and Civil War has recently been uncovered.
Published November 30, 2012

A summary version of Sinn Fein’s budget plans for the
year 2013 in the 26 Counties.
Published November 23, 2012

Both eirigi and RSF held their annual conferences over the past two
weekends, and below we carry their statements.
Published November 23, 2012

An open letter by a group of academics and activists on the media
response to the Israeli attacks on Gaza.
Published November 16, 2012

Terence MacSwiney, IRA Volunteer, Sinn Fein TD, and Mayor of Cork, died 92 years ago this week.
Published November 2, 2012

Gerry Conlon, a victim of an infamous British miscarriage of justice,
has launched a campaign to free two Craigavon men.
Published November 2, 2012

The full text of a wide-ranging address on Thursday
October 25th by Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams in Trim, County Meath.
Published October 26, 2012

It fills me with great pride to play a small part in this phase of the
prison struggle.
Published October 19, 2012

Supporters of human rights across the world are urged to write an
individual letter to British Direct Ruler Theresa Villiers and their
local elected representatives to call for the release of Marian Price.
Published October 12, 2012

The ‘Alternative Ulster Covenant’, was signed in October 1913
by Protestants from County Antrim in support of Home Rule and against
partition.
Published September 28, 2012

Rather than bring closure, the findings of the Hillsborough Independent
Panel have left the families of the 96 victims of the 1989 tragedy
demanding that justice be finally done.
Published September 21, 2012

A detailed statement issued today [Friday] by Ed Moloney, the
former director of Boston College’s Belfast Project, in regard to the
PSNI’s attempt to access the project’s confidential interviews.
Published September 14, 2012

The oration given by Diarmuid MacDubhghlais at the
annual hunger strike commemoration by Republican Sinn Féin in Bundoran,
County Donegal on August 25.
Published September 7, 2012

Little has changed in the 40 years since Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
took her seat in Westminster. There’s been progress, she says, the token gestures, the handshake.
But change?
Published August 31, 2012

At least 34 people were shot dead and 80 more were injured when police
opened fire on striking workers at a platinum mine in Marikana, in the
North West province of South Africa last Thursday, August 16.
Published August 24, 2012

The Sinn Féin founder, Arthur Griffith, died 90 years ago this week.
Published August 17, 2012

Plans are already being laid for the biggest and best West Belfast Féile for August
2013.
Published August 17, 2012

July 31 2012 marked the 40th anniversary of Operation Motorman, the
British army’s invasion of the “no-go” areas in Derry and Belfast.
Published August 10, 2012

The address delivered by Sinn Fein Assembly member Michelle
O’Neill at the party’s annual hunger strike commemoration in Dungiven,
County Derry, last weekend.
Published August 10, 2012

Martin Galvin writes a history of the Gerry McGeough case in the context
of the current political sitution in the North (for the
Pensive Quill)
Published July 27, 2012

In response to the Larne gun-running in arming the Ulster Volunteers,
the Howth gun running was intended to redress the balance by providing
arms to the Irish Volunteers. It took place in Ireland on 26 July 1914,
98 years ago this week.
Published July 20, 2012

Martin Hurson became the sixth republican to die on hunger strike on
this day in 1981. In this archive article, his fiancee Bernadette Donnelly recalls the place where the couple grew up.
Published July 13, 2012

Every July, young people from Ardoyne are criminalised and demonised by
the mainstream media in the Six Counties and beyond because of violence
associated with unwelcome sectarian marches that are forced through our
small community.
Published July 6, 2012

Some families of people shot dead by the British Army have found clear
evidence that British soldiers were given a green light to shoot and
kill civilians in the north of Ireland.
Published June 22, 2012

A campaign to overturn one of the most disputed rulings of the Bloody
Sunday inquiry is to make its case to both the London and Dublin
governments.
Published June 22, 2012

For 12 years the Loughinisland families silently mourned the loss of
their loved ones.
They kept that silence, they say, because of police assurances that no
stone would be left unturned in the hunt for the killers.
Published June 15, 2012

Both in Ireland and across Europe, the result of the Fiscal Austerity referendum -- which
commits the insolvent 26-County state to years of EU-imposed austerity
in return for greater access to bailout cash -- has come as a
surprise.
Published June 8, 2012

This month marks the 25th Anniversary of the Loughgall Martyrs. It
occurred on the 8th May 1987 in the Armagh village of Loughall.
Published May 18, 2012

A look at the life and death of the leader of the Irish Citizen Army,
Michael Mallin, who was executed by firing squad 96 years ago this
week.
Published May 11, 2012

On the anniversary of the execution of the leaders of the Easter Rising,
Conor Caffrey describes a visit to the jail where the executions took
place.
Published May 4, 2012

The British suppression of
historical papers on the north of Ireland should also now be ended.
Published April 27, 2012

Aisling Gallagher looks
at the hunger strike of Palestinian internee, Hana Shalabi, and recalls
the 1981 Irish hunger strike.
Published April 20, 2012

The full text of the major speeches and statements released to commemorate the 1916 Rising by the main republican political parties and groups.
Published April 13, 2012

Padraig Pearse’s oration at Glasnevin cemetery in Dublin at the funeral
of Irish Fenian leader Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa was a significant event
in the lead up to the Easter Rising of 1916.
Published April 6, 2012

Dublin bankers cashed in Pádraig Pearse’s life insurance policy just
weeks after he was executed in 1916 and used the money to redeem a
series of promissory notes.
Published March 30, 2012

The Bogside and Brandywell Monument Committee
held a commemoration in Derry this week for nineteen-year-old Colm Keenan and
eighteen-year-old Eugene McGillan, who were shot dead by British
soldiers in the Dove Gardens area of the Bogside on March 14, 1972.
Published March 23, 2012

The two murdered mayors’, is still a familiar Limerick expression,
particularly among older citizens. Both were killed by the Black and Tans in the small hours of Monday 7 March 1921.
Published March 16, 2012

The Fenian Rising of 1867 took place on this week, 145 years ago.
Published March 9, 2012

The text of an address delivered by Sinn Féin leader
Gerry Adams as he launched the party’s ‘Love Rural Ireland’ campaign
this [Friday] morning in Castlebar.
Published March 2, 2012

It is encouraging to note the growing interest in Marian Price even if
it has been slow to materialise.
Published March 2, 2012

The greatest loss of life incurred by the Cork IRA occurred at Clonmult,
seven miles north of Midleton, 91 years ago this week.
Published February 24, 2012

The real news in Greece is not about riots, but of a growing number of
people who have broken away from fear and decided to fight back against
the austerity imposed by the 'Troika' of the European Commission, the
European Central Bank and the IMF.
Published February 17, 2012

Martin McGuinness on his campaign to become President, his IRA past, his efforts
to end the conflict in the North of Ireland and his call for a vote on
Irish unity.
Published February 3, 2012

The ‘Hooded Men’ were a group of internees who were systematically
tortured by the British military in 1971. We carry a statement
from several of the surviving ‘Hooded Men’ on the subject of the 40th
anniversary Bloody Sunday march, to take place in Derry on Sunday 29th
January, as well as a program of events for the weekend.
Published January 27, 2012

Kevin Barry, one of Ireland’s youngest martyrs, was born in Dublin on
January 20, 1902, 110 years ago today.
Published January 20, 2012

Tensions are deepening at Maghaberry as riot squads take the place of
regular warders. A look at the current situation and the history of the
current prisoners’ protest.
Published January 13, 2012

The Presidential Address delivered at the 107th Ard
Fheis of Republican Sinn Féin last month in which Des Dalton reviews
events of the past year and looks to the future.
Published December 30, 2011

In a rare interview, Marian Price has revealed the toll her time in
isolation in Maghaberry prison has taken on her physical and mental
health.
Published December 23, 2011

December is the traditional month for remembering those still in jail in
Ireland for their republican beliefs.
Published December 16, 2011

Patrick McGurk lost his mother and sister in the bomb that ripped
through his father’s bar in Belfast’s North Queen Street. On the 40th
anniversary of the bombing he spoke about his memories of December 4
1971 and how victims’ families are still continuing to fight for the
truth.
Published December 9, 2011

An introduction by Joseph Gannon to the history behind the Anglo-Irish
Treaty, signed 90 years ago this week and which sowed the seeds of
a conflict which continues to this day.
Published December 2, 2011

An open letter by DD McLaughlin, an Irish republican prisoner on protest
against strip-searching and other abuses at Maghberry.
Published November 25, 2011

The decision of the north’s Attorney General to reopen 10 of the 11
Ballymurphy cases is a landmark judgement which gives hope back to those
families that their long journey toward truth and justice may now
succeed.
Published November 17, 2011

A profile of the three members of the Irish National Liberation Army
who died alongside seven IRA Volunteers, on hunger strike for
political status, thirty years ago this year.
Published November 10, 2011

The bailouts are for only the banks and they are deepening the crisis of
democracy at the heart of the European Union, writes Seamus Milne. For
the Guardian.
Published November 3, 2011

A look at the lives and deaths of two of those who died on hunger
strike in the struggle for Irish freedom on the anniversary of their deaths.
Published October 26, 2011

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams spoke at the International Conference to
promote the resolution of the conflict in the Basque Country, in San
Sebastian on Monday.
Published October 20, 2011

The text of the speech delivered by Presidential election candidate Martin McGuinness at
the Mansion House event in Dublin on Thursday night.
Published October 14, 2011

On Thursday Teresa Treacy was released from jail,
still vowing to protect what is left of her carefully nurtured wooded
estate from the pylon men and their diggers.
Published October 7, 2011

An anti-internment/Free Marian Price march takes place this Saturday,
1st October at 2pm, Dublin, from the Garden of Remembrance to the GPO.
Martin Rafferty, of the 32CSM, discusses the
Marian Price campaign, internment, and the prospects for a united Ireland.
Published September 30, 2011

An abridged version of the address by Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas at the United Nations, in which he requested
full membership and recognition for the State of Palestine.
Published September 24, 2011

A controversial newspaper columnist was shouted and spat at by angry
Fianna Fail supporters after a commemoration organised by the party last
week went disastrously wrong.
Published September 18, 2011

Ten years ago this week, schoolgirls and their families making their
way to and from the Holy Cross school in north Belfast came under
attack on a daily basis.
Published September 6, 2011

An account of the strange predicament facing the 76-year-old IRA
Veteran and former Workers’ Party leader, Sean Garland.
Published August 30, 2011

INLA Volunteer Micky Devine was the last to die in the H-Block hunger strike of 1981,
thirty years ago this week.
Published August 24, 2011

If they aren't able to destroy the desire for freedom, they won't break
you.
Published August 19, 2011

This Tuesday marked exactly 40 years since the beginning of one of the
most horrifying periods in the history of West Belfast.
Published August 13, 2011

IRA Volunteer Thomas McElwee died on hunger strike at Long Kesh prison,
thirty years ago today. A brief biography of Thomas, who was known
for being sincere, easy-going and full of fun.
Published August 8, 2011

An interview by ‘Street Voice’ with Roisin Lynch, the partner of ailing
prisoner Brendan Lillis and head of the campaign to release him before
he dies in jail.
Published August 8, 2011

A profile of republican hero Kieran Doherty who died on hunger strike
at Long Kesh jail on August 2nd, 1981, thirty years ago this week.
Published August 3, 2011

The full text of an address by Sinn Fein TD Caoimhghín
Ó Caoláin in Monaghan to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death
of hunger striker Kieran Doherty.
Published August 3, 2011

Right-wing mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik made a bizarre reference
to Derry’s Bloody Sunday in his 1500 page manifesto, it has emerged.
Published July 29, 2011

Famine is a terrible word. It conjures up frightening images and for
many in Ireland a folk memory of the Great Hunger of the 1840’s.
Published July 29, 2011

It was set up specifically to definitively address the allegations of
collusion but after a six-year probe costing £46.5 million, the Rosemary
Nelson Inquiry made no reference to the “c” word in its final report.
Published July 24, 2011

A look at the lives of two Volunteers who died on hunger strike
30 years ago this month.
Published July 14, 2011

Diarmuid Lynch was said to have been the last man to leave the burning
GPO during Easter week in 1916. A naturalised US citizen, he was
eventually deported in 1918, but the British had long wanted rid of him
before the Rising.
Published July 8, 2011

An Irish immigrant who was the last person to be hanged in Rhode Island
in the US was this week pardoned more than 150 years after his death.
Published July 3, 2011

The man known as the ‘Uncrowned King of Ireland’ was born on June 27th,
1846, 165 years ago today.
Published June 27, 2011

The full text of an address by Sinn Fein President Gerry
Adams to a conference in Dublin at the weekend on the theme of Uniting Ireland.
Published June 22, 2011

A year later, it should be possible to acknowledge that the Saville Report
was far from flawless.
Published June 17, 2011

The legacy of the past is one of the big issues which remains to be
resolved in the outworking of the peace process.
Published June 17, 2011

Liam Kelly, a pivotal figure in republican politics who uniquely held
seats simultaneously in Belfast and Dublin parliaments, died this week.
Published June 12, 2011

An account by the Bobby Sands Trust of how the famous 1981 hunger strike, 30 years ago this year,
came into being.
Published May 30, 2011

The text of an oration delivered by eirigi chairperson Breandan
Mac Cionnaith at a commemoration for Jim Lynagh and Padraig McKearney on
15 May 2011 at Drumfurrer, County Monaghan.
Published May 20, 2011

Two contrasting republican approaches and views on the Windsor visit to the 26-County state.
Published May 17, 2011

The results of Thursday's Assembly election in the Six Counties, as well as a list
of the Sinn Fein and republican candidates elected to local district councils.
Published May 12, 2011

The following statement was issued at the weekend by the prisoners
engaged in protest at Maghaberry jail.
Published May 12, 2011

Today is the 30th anniversary of the heroic death of Irish patriot Bobby
Sands on hunger-strike at Long Kesh prison. In his solemn memory, we
publish a brief collection of quotes, some famous, some less well known.
Published May 5, 2011

A round-up of the messages delivered at various Easter commemorations across Ireland.
Published April 30, 2011

Messages from Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness precede a
list of the mnain points from Sinn Fein's manifesto for the 2011
Assembly election in the North.
Published April 18, 2011

For almost a decade, simple acts of resistance by the community in
Erris have met with bullying, threats, intimidation, vilification and
casual violence at the hands of both Gardai and Shell’s private army
IRMS.
Published April 13, 2011

Sinn Fein’s electoral strategy began 30 years ago during the 1981 hunger
strikes,
beginning with Bobby Sands’s historic win in Fermanagh/South Tyrone, 30
years ago this week.
Published April 8, 2011

Last Wednesday, four years later, the Assembly at Parliament Buildings
concluded its first ever complete four year term.
Published April 4, 2011

A witness to the Loughinisland massacre was not only never called on to identify the killers, but she
alleges that her details were later passed on to a relative of the
suspected getaway driver.
Published March 29, 2011

Declarations from western powers that the military strike against Libya
is motivated solely by a desire to protect the civilian population
cannot be taken seriously
Published March 25, 2011

On February 18, 2011, after almost 4 years of a politically motivated
arrest and trial, Gerry McGeough’s case ended with a “guilty” verdict
handed down by a British diplock court
Published March 21, 2011

In March 1923, six weeks before the end of the civil war, the execution
of republican prisoners by the Free State regime reached its height.
Published March 16, 2011

A document issued on the 25th February by a group of republican
prisoners opposed to the criminalisation policy at Maghaberry jail
in the North of Ireland.
Published March 10, 2011

On March 1 1981 Raymond McCartney was a republican prisoner in Long Kesh
when the second hunger strike began.
Published March 6, 2011

Counting in the 26-County general election concluded this (Wednesday)
morning following a second recount in Galway West. The following is a
full and final list of members of the new Dublin parliament, in
alphabetical order by constituency
Published March 2, 2011

A look at the key constituencies for republicans in the general election.
Published February 25, 2011

There is growing anger over the enmeshed relationship between
authoritarian Gulf governments and the British military and police after
weeks of democracy protests across the Arab world that met with violent
state repression.
Published February 21, 2011

A letter written this week by a republican prisoner, Damian (D.D.)
McLaughlin, forcibly strip searched during a court appearance.
Published February 15, 2011

Rather than understand that the canard of paying back all the banks’
debts is futile and changing their minds, the establishment is trying to
find more proof that the policy of keeping the banks alive is the right
one.
Published February 15, 2011

The introduction and executive summary of Sinn Fein’s election
manifesto for the 26-County general election later this month.
Published February 11, 2011

A political candidate stands as an Independent on issues of principle
during elections in Zimbabwe. Every political dirty trick and smear in
the book is used against him during the campaign.
Published February 7, 2011

Sunday was about completing the journey begun in the Creggan
in January 1972.
Published February 2, 2011

So much has changed for the Arab nations in the few days since the flight of Ben Ali in
Tunisia.
Published January 29, 2011

Often in life we come across people who leave a lasting impression on
oneself and who inspire and influence a person by their passion and
beliefs.
Published January 25, 2011

Many republicans watching this week’s shambolic events at the Dublin
parliament would have been bitterly aware that they came on the 92nd
anniversary of the inauguration of the First Dail. A look
back at that historic day.
Published January 21, 2011
Sinn Fein’s Paul Butler is to quit the Six-County assembly after what he
said had been a difficult decision.
Published January 18, 2011
Tommy Gorman was one of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ who escaped from the
prison Ship Maidstone in 1972, 39 years ago this week. An interview by
Anthony Neeson for the Andersonstown News.
Published January 18, 2011
Gerry Adams responds to the announcement by the Basque armed
group Eta, confirming that organisations’ commitment to “a permanent and
general ceasefire which will be verifiable by the international
community”.
Published January 13, 2011

A statement issued by eirigi to mark the New Year.
Published January 9, 2011

A look back at the main stories from the year past.
Published January 4, 2011

The year 2010 will be remembered principally for two profound and far
reaching developments in Irish politics.
Published December 29, 2010

With calls for a general strike and civil disobedience gaining ground in
the face of the economic crisis, an example in Irish history
when the tactic of the general strike was successfully employed by the
Irish working class.
Published December 21, 2010

With last Friday’s passage of legislation to cut the minimum wage by 1
euro to 7.65 euro [£6.50], another shameful threshold was crossed by the
Fianna Fáil-Green Party coalition; driving yet another section of
society into poverty.
Published December 17, 2010

A list of republican prisoners and the
addresses of their prisons.
Published December 14, 2010

The full text of the address by Sinn Fein
Finance Spokesperson Pearse Doherty following Tuesday’s 26-County
Budget for 2011
Published December 10, 2010

So what is the International Monetary Fund?
Published December 7, 2010

On Sunday, Sinn Fein’s Deputy First Minister addressed the Kilmichael
Commemoration to mark the 90th anniversary of a famous battle during
the War of Independence in County Cork on 28 November 1920.
Published November 29, 2010

A statement by the 32 County Sovereignty Committee on the crisis
in the 26-County state.
Published November 29, 2010

Many commentators in Ireland and beyond have asked why the Irish people
have not taken to the streets.
Published November 29, 2010

Last weekend delegates and visitors assembled in Dublin for the
Ard-Fheis of [Republican] Sinn Fein.
Published November 26, 2010

It seems now that the cheapest bailout in the world has not only
cost the Twenty-Six County state over 50 billion euro and rising, but
has driven tens of thousands of workers onto dole queues, exposed its
citizens to the vagaries of international financial markets and has now
resulted in the state surrendering its sovereignty to the IMF.
Published November 22, 2010

Kevin Barry was hanged by the British in Mountjoy Jail at the age of eighteen, ninety years ago this month.
Published November 19, 2010

Not since the election of the late Bobby Sands to Westminster has a
republican candidate been in such a fateful position to influence
events
Published November 16, 2010

Dealing with the past and the issue of truth recovery arising from the
conflict has become increasingly fraught.
Published November 12, 2010

The image of the typical dissident republican protesting against the
queen’s visit to Ireland next year is clearcut.
Published November 8, 2010

An interview with three representatives of Oglaigh na hEireann leadership
-- one member of the organisation’s Army Council and two general
headquarters staff -- conducted this week by Brian Rowan of the Belfast
Telegraph.
Published November 5, 2010

A summary of Sinn Féin’s 26-County pre-budget submission and economic
plan for recovery 2011, which was released in Dublin today.
Published November 1, 2010

A tribute to Maire Drumm, the vice president of Sinn Fein and a
commander in Cumann na mBan, who was killed by loyalists while
recovering in Belfast’s Mater Hospital. 34 years ago today.
Published October 28, 2010

Through many difficult years the people of Turf Lodge
demonstrated time and time again a commitment to their families and to
each other.
Published October 24, 2010

Declassified official documents shed an interesting light on British
government attitudes towards loyalist infiltration of the security
forces and loyalist violence in the 1970s.
Published October 19, 2010

An edited version of Sinn Fein’s proposals
for the Six-County economy which were published today.
Published October 14, 2010

Former RUC men who worked at Castlereagh torture centre in Belfast described for the Guardian newspaper what was expected of them.
Published October 12, 2010

Gary Donnelly, a former prisoner in the North's high-security facility at Maghaberry, speaks about a shocking, largely unnoticed protest by republican dissidents that erupted inside the prison ealier this year.
Published October 8, 2010

What can we do to help support Gerry and Vincent at this
time”?
Published October 4, 2010

Just 1% of the population are estimated to own 34% of the wealth of the
Twenty-Six Counties. The &lsquo1% Network’ is to hold a
political walking tour through the heartland of the golden circle in Dublin.
Published October 1, 2010

On September 23 1996, IRA volunteer Diarmuid O’Neill was shot dead
during an arrest operation by armed members of the Metropolitan Police
in Hammersmith, London, England.
Published September 27, 2010

IRA Volunteer Tom Williams was hanged at age 19 by the British in
September 1942, 68 years ago this month, for his part in a gun battle
with the RUC which left one RUC man dead.
Published September 24, 2010

The opening address to Sinn Fein’s ‘think-in’ ahead of
the resumption of the Dublin parliament next month, by the Sinn Fein
Dail leader Caoimhghin O Caolain.
Published September 20, 2010

An account of the Irish National Liberation Army
operation to execute Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Wright on the morning
of 27th of December 1997.
Published September 16, 2010

The rescue of Colonel Kelly and Captain Deasy while they were being
conveyed to Salford gaol, near Manchester (September 18th, 1867), is one
of the most stirring episodes of the Fenian movement.
Published September 14, 2010

It will not come as a surprise to the leadership of Eta or the political
leaders of the banned Herri Batasuna - the party closest to Eta - that
the Spanish government’s response to the ceasefire announcement was
insulting and offensive.
Published September 9, 2010

Tony Blair's bloody legacy has made it impossible for him to go unguarded anywhere in the world.
Published September 6, 2010

An address to the party’s Hunger Strike commemoration in Bundoran on
Saturday August 28th by the President of Republican Sinn Fein, Des
Dalton.
Published September 2, 2010

Bishop Edward Daly speaks out about a 'less challenging style of journalism at work now'.
Published August 30, 2010

Many of the Bloody Sunday relatives have
spoken publicly about their feelings since the publication of the
Saville report for the first time at Belfast’s Feile an Phobal.
Published August 27, 2010

Extracts from the interview between the Irish News and a
representative of ‘Oglaigh na h-Eireann’.
Published August 23, 2010

An account of the life of Irish military leader Michael Collins, who died 88 years ago this week.
Published August 20, 2010

Some 10,000 people gathered in Bellaghy, County Derry for Sinn Fein’s
annual hunger strike commemoration.
Published August 16, 2010

GARC (the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective) has issued what it says
is an attempt to set the record straight on the July 12th protests
against an Orange Order march in north Belfast.
Published August 13, 2010

An extract from the book, Internment, by John McGuffin, on the thinking
that went into the policy of internment without trial, implemented in
the north of Ireland 39 years ago this week.
Published August 10, 2010

The slaughter of three band members saw the
unintentional exposure of the involvement of British military personnel
in directing and assisting unionist death squads in their murder
campaign.
Published August 6, 2010

In August 1971, British soldiers went on
a three-day killing rampage in Ballymurphy, murdering 11 innocent
people. Now their families want justice for Belfast's Bloody Sunday.
Published August 2, 2010

The prepared text of the address by Paul Duffy, a former republican
prisoner and brother of Colin Duffy, to the ‘Families, friends and
ex-PoWs march’ for republican prisoners in Lurgan on Sunday.
Published July 26, 2010

The message sent by Peggy O’Hara, mother of
hunger-strike Patsy O’Hara, on the first Anniversary of the Hunger
Strike deaths to Irish Solidarity activists in Scotland and England.
Published July 22, 2010

The full text of the Hume Lecture delivered by Sinn
Fein’s Martin McGuinness at the McGill Summer School over the weekend.
Published July 19, 2010

No year in Irish history is better known than 1690. No Irish battle is
more famous than William III’s victory over James II at the River Boyne,
a few miles west of Drogheda
Published July 16, 2010

At the time of his death, Anthony McDowell (13), lived with his family
in Duneden Park, Ardoyne. He was shot dead on 19th April 1973, by the
British Army’s Parachute Regiment.
Published July 12, 2010

The Falls Road curfew of the summer of 1970 is regarded as a major
turning point in the early history of the conflict.
Published July 8, 2010

Imposing English as
the first language of Ireland was a pre-meditated project of the English
invaders to attempt to condition the people they wished to oppress.
Published July 6, 2010

The people of Belfast’s Ballymacarrett-Short Strand area have made a valuable contribution to the struggle for a united Ireland.
Published July 1, 2010

The geographical and symbolic position of St Matthew’s Church, facing on
to the staunchly loyalist Newtownards Road, played a major factor in the
events which were to unfold in June 1970.
Published June 28, 2010

Both North and South have failed miserably as separate entities. The
best way forward is to avoid the wastes and inequalities of partition,
writes Gerry Adams.
Published June 24, 2010

It would be a mistake to see Saville's report as supplying the
definitive answers to what happened on January 30, 1972 in Derry.
Published June 21, 2010

How the Saville and Widgery reports differed in their
findings for each of the Bloody Sunday victims.
Published June 17, 2010

The British public has the right to know what has been done
in their name and the fact that ordinary working class families, as well
as all those wounded on the day, were left to carry the burden of
injustice for almost 40 years.
Published June 14, 2010

They have fought so hard for so long, but in just a few days’ time, the
families of those killed and injured on Bloody Sunday will gather in
Derry’s Guildhall to see whether they’ve finally been given justice.
Published June 11, 2010

There is clear evidence present that the State of Israeli may have
deliberately and with forethought intended to provoke a conflict in
order to assassinate civilians sailing aboard the Freedom Flotilla, and
therefore violently discourage any further attempts to deliver
humanitarian aid to the Palestinians of besieged Gaza.
Published June 4, 2010

An action alert to hold Israel to account over the murder of
international human rights activists and the hijacking of their aid
flotilla.
Published May 31, 2010

The address by Sinn Fein Deputy First
Minister Martin McGuinness to a North South Consultative Conference in
Farmleigh in Dublin on Wednesday.
Published May 27, 2010

In an excerpt from her memoirs,
Nora Connolly O’Brien talks about her father’s final days and the courage and
inspiration that James Connolly gave to her and continues to give today.
Published May 25, 2010

There are 32 republican prisoners in Roe House in Maghaberry Prison
living in appalling conditions and one prisoner, Liam Hannaway, has been
on hunger strike in another part of the prison for the past month.
Published May 20, 2010

A long-term solution to the problem caused by sectarian parades can only
be found in the implementation of a policy which includes a broad
acceptance of the right of host communities not to have parades forced
through against their will.
Published May 17, 2010

Responding to an oil spill may be easy and simple, but not at
all cheap. And BP is cheap. Deadly cheap.
Published May 14, 2010

In Britain, the outcome of the Westminster general election has brought
uncertainty and instability, with the possibility of a second election
within a year.
Published May 10, 2010

The election results from all of the North's 18 Westminster constituencies.
Published May 8, 2010

A guide to this week’s political showdown in the North and
what to watch for when the newsflashes come rolling in.
Published May 4, 2010

The foreward by Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams to the
party’s manifesto for next week’s Westminster election.
Published April 29, 2010

Regardless of who won in the debate between the British party leaders
last Thursday, the outcome points to one clear conclusion: there will be
a hung parliament in Britain.
Published April 26, 2010

Sinn Fein are asking the electorate to endorse our role in leading the
way in significant political developments since the last Westminster
election.
Published April 22, 2010

The story of Padraig Pearse and the rebellion of Easter 1916, 94 years
ago this week.
Published April 19, 2010

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams this morning launched the party’s
election campaign for the Westminster election on May 6th.
Published April 15, 2010

The Felons’ Club on
Belfast’s Falls Road in an exhibition of republican memorabilia
organised by the National Graves Association.
Published April 12, 2010

A number of statements were issued by the main republican organisations at the weekend.
Published April 8, 2010

25 out of 27 people prosecuted for resisting Shell’s experimental gas
pipeline have cases withdrawn or dismissed.
Published April 2, 2010

An action alert was issued by supporters of leading
republican Gerry McGeough following a bizarre intervention in his trial
by far-right Swedish operatives.
Published March 29, 2010

On the 90th anniversary of the arrival in Ireland of one of England’s
most notorious of militias, we present a brief history of the infamous
Black and Tans.
Published March 25, 2010

A reporter responds to the call by the
‘Northern Ireland Affairs Committee’ at the London parliament for a
further investigation into the Omagh bomb.
Published March 22, 2010

On March 17, 1858, 152 years ago this week, James Stephens founded the
Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) in Dublin at the same time as John
O’Mahoney was founding the American branch of the revolutionary group.
Published March 15, 2010

To mark international women’s day, we carry the following article on
the women hunger strikers of Armagh prison, by DM Daugherty.
Published March 8, 2010

Twenty years ago, Sam Marshall was walking home with two other men when
they were confronted by masked gunmen who opened up with automatic fire.
Published March 4, 2010

The impact of the peace process in Ireland is clearly evident in the
language used in peace efforts in the Basque Country.
Published March 1, 2010

Roger Casement had returned to Ireland in 1916 to share his comrades’ fate. In
1965, 49 years later and 45 years ago this week, he was finally able to
rejoin them one last time.
Published February 25, 2010

The unique prehistoric site of Newgrange in County Meath, Ireland is
threatened by a planned bypass of Slane village; to preserve the site,
the village should be closed to lorries, or the bypass should take a
western route.
Published February 22, 2010

A conference on the prospects for Irish unity organised by Sinn Fein in
London on Saturday heard that unification “within a meaningful
time-scale” is both “realistic and feasible”.
Published February 22, 2010

The Corrib saga has become so bitter and divisive, it can be hard to see
the obvious.
Published February 18, 2010

A recent interview with Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams about sectarian parades, the policing and justice deal, and the controversy surrounding allegations against his brother Liam.
Published February 15, 2010

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the release from captivity of
Nelson Mandela. We carry an extract from his memoirs on his time at
Robben Island prison.
Published February 11, 2010

An action alert by families of republican prisoners
being held at Maghaberry jail in county Antrim.
Published February 4, 2010

As many victims of miscarriages of justice will testify, admissions of
guilt by Britain take a long time to come to pass.
Published January 25, 2010

Before deciding what form an inquiry should take, we must define what
exactly we need to know.
Published January 21, 2010

Gerry Adams replies to allegations published by Suzanne Breen and the Sunday Tribune newspaper.
Published January 18, 2010

The basis of the UDA decommissioning settlement was set out back in
2007.
Published January 14, 2010

How Liam Mellows escaped from exile in England to return to Ireland
in time for the 1916 Rising.
Published January 11, 2010

The annual New Year statements issued by the main
nationalist and republican organisations
Published January 2, 2010

A review of the declassified documents released in Dublin, London and
Belfast under the 30 years rule.
Published January 2, 2010

Another old stalwart of the conflict to leave us this year was the
veteran Sinn Fein activist Marie Moore who died in hospital after a long
illness
Published December 28, 2009

Born during an age when women were expected to be nothing more than
handsome window-dressing for their husbands, when women were expected to
leave the rough and tumble world of politics to men, Maud Gonne rose
above that prejudice to leave her mark on Ireland’s history.
Published December 21, 2009

Prisoner support groups have urged those interested to send a card or
letter this holiday season to those republican prisoners currently
behind bars.
Published December 17, 2009

An appeal to Americans to continue the MacBride agenda of
change in the north of Ireland by investing twice: once for jobs, once for
justice.
Published December 14, 2009

The Fianna Fail/Green Party budget represents a savage attack on the
working class of the Twenty-Six Counties.
Published December 10, 2009

The proposed designs for seven new British nuclear power stations, which
will be built along the Irish Sea coast, have potentially lethal flaws.
Published December 7, 2009

An account of Volunteer Tom Maguire’s escape from Athlone Barracks in
1923.
Published December 3, 2009

The full text of the keynote address by Sinn Fein
strategist Declan Kearney to the commemoration this weekend in village
of Dunloy to mark the 20th anniversary of the deaths of Volunteers
Declan Martin and Henry Hogan.
Published November 30, 2009

Help the campaign for the Manchester Martyrs to be returned home to
Ireland.
Published November 26, 2009

Thirty five years ago, six Irishmen were jailed for crimes they did not commit, and
spent 16 years in jail before their convictions were quashed.
Published November 23, 2009

The executive summary of Sinn Fein’s pre-budget submission
for the 2010 calendar year.
Published November 19, 2009

A member of Sinn Fein in south Armagh has blamed unionists and British
state security agencies for a major investigation into his finances.
Published November 16, 2009

Des Dalton became the new president of Republican Sinn Fein at its
Ard-Fheis [annual conference] on Sunday.
Published November 16, 2009

Prominent socialist republican Gerry Ruddy looks at the recent recent
decision by the INLA to renounce armed struggle.
Published November 12, 2009

Sinn Fein’s Annual Edentubber Commemoration on Sunday was addressed by
Conor Murphy, the Six County Minister for Regional Development.
Published November 9, 2009

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement held its Annual General Meeting in
Derry on Saturday.
Published November 9, 2009

As the Twenty-Six County budget looms ever nearer and Britain’s Stormont
administration considers cut backs, there is much uncertainty and fear
in working class communities throughout Ireland.
Published November 5, 2009

For two decades Colin Duffy has been the target of an unrelenting
campaign of persecution and victimisation by state forces within the Six
Counties.
Published November 2, 2009

Relatives for Justice has campaigned on behalf of the Hegarty family in
connection with the killing of their son, Daniel. The following is their
profile on the case.
Published October 29, 2009

The Irish are alive and well in Jamaica, writes Rob Mullally. The third
and final part of a three-part series.
Published October 26, 2009

The testimony of Raymond McCord Sr. before
the US Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on
International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight, on the subject of collusion.
Published October 22, 2009

The President of Republican Sinn Fein, who recently announced he is
stepping down from the position, is interviewed.
Published October 19, 2009

The second part of a three-part series by Rob Mullally, from the Wild
Geese, about the black Irish of Jamaica.
Published October 16, 2009

Republican prisoner John Brady had a row with his brother-in-law while
on weekend parole. He ended up hanging from his laces in a PSNI cell.
His family don’t believe it was suicide. A report by Suzanne Breen
for the Sunday Tribune.
Published October 13, 2009

One of the reasons for hostility to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry is to be
found in a judgement delivered in the High Court in London last Friday
in the case of Khunder al-Sweady.
Published October 8, 2009

A three part series on the history of the Irish settlers in Jamaica.
Published October 5, 2009

An interview with the authors of ‘The Lost Revolution’, Brian Hanley and Scott Millar. It also includes some analysis
from the authors on key events covered in the book on the Official Republicans/The Workers’ Party.
Published October 1, 2009

On Friday you have an opportunity to shape the future of Europe. The
question you have to ask yourself is whether the Lisbon Treaty is a good
deal for Ireland and whether it takes the European Union in the
direction you want it to go
Published September 28, 2009

The Lisbon Treaty proposes to incorporate the European Defence Agency
within the institutional structure of the European Union.
Published September 24, 2009

It is worth remembering when vested intersts remind you yet again of the
structural funds we received from the European Union what we ourselves
as a nation have given to the EU. Namely, our entire fishing waters,
which was the admission price for entry.
Published September 21, 2009

Maura Harrington is a spokesperson for the Shell to Sea campaign, from
County Mayo, who has now been jailed four times for her opposition to
the Shell Corrib gas project in north Mayo. Here she looks back at a
decade of resistance by the local community and its supporters against
an unwanted, dangerous and apparently corrupt exploitation of a
sensitive environment.
Published September 17, 2009

Policing has again reached a critical juncture but with a fresh
opportunity to accelerate the process of change.
Published September 14, 2009

Nationalists and republicans should have a united policy about
one most important issue: Our right to make our own political, economic
and cultural decisions.
Published September 10, 2009

The killing of Loughlin Maginn was to spark a chain reaction of
events that would finally lift the lid on Crown force collusion.
Published September 7, 2009

With just five weeks to go to the referendum on Lisbon 2, the Yes side
grows ever more desperate and its advocates more bizarre.
Published September 3, 2009

In the course of the current crisis, the only
state intervention into the market has been to secure the interests and
profits of a tiny wealthy elite.
Published August 31, 2009

UCD lecturer Karl Whelan on the implications of the Dublin government’s
proposed bailout for Irish property speculators and their bankers
through the National Asset Management Agency (Nama).
Published August 27, 2009

The scene for the Battle of the Bogside was set long before August 1969.
Published August 20, 2009

Forty years ago this weekend, the dam broke and the generational
political failure that had deepened since partition washed over all the
Irish political institutions.
Published August 14, 2009

Brendan Duddy is slowly emerging as another
important name to add to that list of names most publicly associated with the Irish peace process
Published August 7, 2009

Sinn Fein is not in crisis and its continued role in and relevance to
the future of political life in Ireland is not in doubt, according to Eoin O Broin.
Published July 31, 2009

The death took place during the week of Frank McCourt, one of Ireland’s
greatest and most popular writers and a major literary figure in his
native New York. We publish an extract from his novel, ‘Angela’s Ashes’.
Published July 24, 2009

The single most important issue facing the people of Ireland and Britain
is the achievement of Irish unity and the construction of a new
relationship between Ireland and Britain based on equality.
Published July 17, 2009

In addition to the three hundred Gardai, the two Navy ships, the planes
and the helicopters the Twenty-Six County government have also brought
their ‘justice’ system out to bat for Shell.
Published July 10, 2009

A senior Irish-American suggests the areas where U.S. support might be most welcome and
productive.
Published July 3, 2009

Last week’s judgment in Belfast was a triumph for press freedom across
Europe, according to Sunday Tribune Northern Editor Suzanne Breen.
Published June 26, 2009

The official launch of the Don’t Extradite the Basques Campaign took
place last Wednesday [June 10] in Culturlann MacAdam-O Fiaich in
Belfast.
Published June 19, 2009

Mayo man Pat O’Donnell has had his boat, the ‘Iona Isle’ boarded last
night by armed, masked men and sunk in the latest act of aggression by
Shell OIl & Gas in their attempt to construct a controversial onshore
gas refinery in Belmullet.
Published June 12, 2009

Three IRA Volunteers were shot dead by undercover British forces
fourteen years ago this week
Published June 4, 2009

A keynote speech delivered by Sinn Féin’s Deputy First
Minister Martin McGuinness at the Kevin Lynch commemoration at Park,
County Derry last weekend.
Published May 29, 2009

Sinn Féin launched the party’s campaign for the local government
elections in the 26 Counties this week.
Published May 22, 2009

She came, she saw, she left again and, in between, the usual crowd of
hangers on and supposedly intelligent people reduced themselves to the
babblings of fools and morons.
Published May 15, 2009

Sinn Féin MEP for the Six Counties, Bairbre de Brun this week delivered
the annual Bobby Sands Memorial Lecture, the theme of which was
‘Countess Markievicz and the 100th anniversary of Na Fianna Eireann.
Published May 8, 2009
Belfast’s Crumlin Road Prison is not only an impressive, indeed,
imposing, example of Victorian prison architecture it is also a museum,
an artefact, in its own right.
Published April 24, 2009

The full text of the address by Sinn Féin President
Gerry Adams to his party’s Easter Rising commemoration in west Belfast.
Published April 17, 2009

Two Catholic priests shot dead by the British Army during the conflict
were remembered this week at St Peter’s Cathedral in Belfast.
Published April 10, 2009

To me, Marie Moore, who passed away a few weeks ago, belonged to a
heroic generation.
Published April 3, 2009

More work needs to be done to ensure that women are at the centre
of decision making, especially in government and parliament
Published March 27, 2009

eirigi
chairperson Brian Leeson issued the following statement on Monday,
clarifying that no member of the group has been arrested in connection
with last week’s attacks.
Published March 19, 2009

The political institutions, the peace process and Sinn Fein are as
much a target of the perpetrators of Saturday night's attack as those
they killed or injured.
Published March 13, 2009

We need a Rising! That thought came into my head as I listened to RTE
radio’s report of last Saturday’s mass trade union rally in Dublin.
Published February 27, 2009

Four Derry men
remember with pain and dread a Valentines Day thirty years
ago when their lives and the lives of their families were turned
upside down.
Published February 20, 2009

Pearse Lawlor has
penned the first published account of the events of July to September
1920 in which more than 1,000 Catholic families lost their homes in
county Down.
Published February 13, 2009

The following address was given by Tony Catney of the Republican
Network for Unity at Derry’s Gasyard Centre as part of this year’s
annual Bloody Sunday commemoration.
Published February 6, 2009

The keynote address by Sinn Sinn Féin
President Gerry Adams at the Mansion House in Dublin to his party’s
90th anniversary commemoration of the First Dail.
Published January 30, 2009

Can an incident-packed and prolonged time span be adequately
explored in the form of a play?
Published January 30, 2009

Caoimhghin O Caolain TD told the official commemoration this week that the work of the First Dail remains unfinished. We publish the full text of his address.
Published January 23, 2009

The famous ‘Free Derry’ wall was painted forty years ago this month.
Eamon McCann corrects the record of the day when the inspiring
international landmark was born.
Published January 16, 2009

The People’s Democracy march, forty years ago this week, is seen by
historians as marking a significant turning point in the recent
conflict.
Published January 9, 2009

The full text of the New Year statements issued by Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and republican organisations
in Ireland.
Published January 2, 2009

Let Christmas 2008 be the last Pol Brennan ever spends behind bars.
Published December 19, 2008

A look at the electoral facts surrounding Sinn Féin’s
historic victory at the 1918 General Election, ninety years ago this
week.
Published December 12, 2008

A cousin recalls the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes and how the British
system has struggled to admit London’s own shoot-to-kill policy.
Published December 5, 2008

The Presidential Address delivered
by Republican Sinn Féin President Ruairi O Bradaigh in Dublin to RSF's annual conference earlier
this month.
Published November 28, 2008

Wolfe Tone died on November 19, 1798 - 310 years ago this week
- from a stab wound to his neck which he inflicted upon himself.
Published November 21, 2008

The theme of Sinn Fein's Edentubber Commemoration this year was
the role of women in the struggle for Irish freedom.
Published November 13, 2008

At Halloween 1973 in Dublin, one of the most audacious, cleverly
planned jail escapes in Irish history occurred.
Published November 7, 2008

It is twenty years to the day, since the British Government imposed the
media ban as part of another review of security in the North of
Ireland.
Published October 31, 2008

Hunger is a true-to-life film, not propaganda, as claimed by its unionist
critics.
Published October 24, 2008

Brian Leeson, eirigi chairperson, presents his analysis of the crisis
in the Irish financial system, of those who created it, and the choices
facing Irish citizens for the future.
Published October 17, 2008

Events in Derry’s Duke Street forty years ago were magnified
by the arrival of a new witness to Irish history: the television news camera.
Published October 10, 2008

Recollections by civil rights activist Fionnbarra O Dochartaigh regarding
the event which some historians characterise as the day the ‘Troubles’
began.
Published October 3, 2008
On the 25th anniversary of the mass escape from the H-Blocks of Long
Kesh, some of those who took part have revealed the dramatic events
surrounding the escape for a new documentary.
Published September 26, 2008
Did a British agent first flout Omagh as a potential target for a bomb attack? Was the carnage of August 15 the product of his labour?
Published September 19, 2008
Shell to Sea campaigner Maura Harrington has begun a Hunger Strike to
coincide with the arrival of the Solitaire, Shell’s pipe-laying vessel in
Broadhaven Bay.
Published September 12, 2008
The final installment of a three-part series looking at the
malign influence of the Orange Order in the north of Ireland,
from its inception to the present day.
Published September 5, 2008
Austin Currie reflects on the huge and peaceful Coalisland to Dungannon
March of August 24th, 1968, which marked a turning point for the Irish
civil rights movement.
Published August 29, 2008
Truth campaigners now say that Bloody Sunday might never have happened
had the British Army been brought to book for the Ballymurphy
slaughter.
Published August 22, 2008
The families of the victims have called for a full cross-order public
inquiry into the Omagh bomb, which took place ten years ago this week.
Published August 15, 2008
Without them there would not have been an IRA, a Sinn Fein, war or
peace or the new Ireland we have today.
Published August 8, 2008
The second part in a multi-part series examining the history and
current context of the Protestant marching orders, this week looking at
the Orange Order during the first Stormont administration, 1921-1972.
Published August 1, 2008
One hundred and sixty years after one of the most traumatic events in
the history of this island, the Dublin Government are to officially
commemorate An Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger, which claimed the lives of
an estimated one million Irish people and reduced the population of the
country by half.
Published July 25, 2008
The Loyal Orders stress the cultural and religious aspects of their
organisations. The reality of their involvement over the past 200
years tells a different story.
Published July 18, 2008
The oration by Marion Price at the
grave of Wolfe Tone in the Republican Unity Initiative’s Bodenstown
commemoration.
Published July 11, 2008
A bond of friendship and solidarity lasting over 50 years was
celebrated in Dublin last month.
Published July 4, 2008
Sinn Féin is embarking on a more active engagement with those in
Britain who support Irish unity and is seeking to produce “a renewed
strategy able to advance republican goals”.
Published June 27, 2008
The people have spoken. The Lisbon Treaty is dead. Now it’s time for
Plan B.
Published June 19, 2008
Forty years ago a family’s decision to make a stand over housing set
in motion a chain of events that would give rise to the civil rights
movement.
Published June 12, 2008
Belfast City Council took an enlightened step forward in the politics
of reconciliation on Monday night when it elected Sinn Féin councillor
Tom Hartley as its mayor.
Published June 6, 2008
Thousands turned out for the funeral of IRA commander Brian Keenan in
Belfast on Saturday.
Published May 30, 2008
If Queen Elizabeth I had lived in the 20th Century, she would have been
viewed with the same horror as Hitler and Stalin.
Published May 23, 2008
The Lisbon Treaty is a bad deal for Ireland. It gives the EU too much
power and reduces our ability to stop decisions that are not in
Ireland's interests. Ireland deserves better.
Published May 16, 2008
Irish political refugee Pol Brennan needs our help and support.
Published May 8, 2008
The
outgoing 26-County Taoiseach Bertie Ahern made a landmark address to a joint session of the
US Congress this week.
Published May 2, 2008
The text of an address by Ruairi O Bradaigh, President
of Republican Sinn Féin at the Ireland Institute, Pearse Centre, Dublin
on April 17.
Published April 25, 2008
This is the most critical time for the Tibetan people.
Published April 18, 2008
The following is the full text of remarks made by Sinn Féin President
Gerry Adams to a local activist meeting in Belfast this week.
Published April 11, 2008
The Belfast Agreement marks an historic and defining point of change in
the history and development of this island, writes Gerry Adams.
Published April 4, 2008
Over 250 republican prisoners were released as a result of a key
element of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. A look at what happened to
two of those prisoners, ten years on from the agreement.
Published March 28, 2008
Statements by the Clinton and Obama campaigns on Ireland.
Published March 21, 2008
Ian Paisley helped to radicalise my generation. But his lasting legacy
will be helping secure peace, writes Gerry Adams.
Published March 14, 2008
On this date 20 years ago shortly after teatime an ashen-faced and
clearly distressed Danny Morrison rushed into Tom Hartley’s living room
where I was sitting.
Published March 7, 2008
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams argues that failure by the DUP to agree
the transfer of policing and justice powers risks eroding confidence in
the political institutions.
Published February 29, 2008
Brendan ‘Darkie’ reflects on a lifetime
of struggle and the current political situation in Ireland.
Published February 21, 2008
An attempt to find out what the Lisbon Reform Treaty means.
Published February 15, 2008
The first interview in five years with the ‘Real IRA’ was published
this week. The following is an edited version of that interview.
Published February 8, 2008
Our country has barely known a taste of freedom yet already
we are actively complicit in the destruction of the one central,
world-renowned and undiluted symbol of our unity and strength.
Published January 31, 2008
If the British government are sincere
about addressing the legacy of the past they could start by publishing
Stevens report.
Published January 24, 2008
Edmund Burke was one of the most famous political thinkers of the 18th
century.
Published January 17, 2008
Ireland January 2008 is a much better place than Ireland January 2007.
What a difference a year can make in the life of a nation.
Published January 9, 2008
A look back at the main news events of the year that was.
Published January 3, 2008
The education system is being opened up for the first time to ensure
equality of access and equality of educational opportunity irrespective
of class or creed.
Published December 20, 2007
Gerry Adams’s keynote address at the special Sinn Féin conference in
Dublin last weekend.
Published December 12, 2007
A look at the fourth Budget delivered today by the 26-County Minister for Finance Brian Cowen.
Published December 5, 2007
On 23 November 1867, three Irishmen, Michael O’Brien, William Philip
Allen and Michael Larkin, were hanged in public in Salford, England,
for the murder of a police sergeant during the rescue of two Fenian
leaders.
Published November 28, 2007
A report by eirigi activists on the latest action against the
development of a dangerous onshore gas refinery in County Mayo.
Published November 22, 2007
The full prepared text of the Presidential address delivered to the 103u Ard Fheis of Republican
Sinn Fein on November 11 by Ruairi O Bradaigh.
Published November 15, 2007
In times of war he was a man of war. In times of peace he was a man of
peace.
Published November 8, 2007
The text of a keynote address by Sinn Féin President
Gerry Adams delivered at a special event on Wednesday night organised in aid of the Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace.
Published November 1, 2007
The people of Ballinaboy and Rossport and the surrounding areas are
asking people to join them in a day of protest at the site of Shell's
proposed refinery on November 9th.
Published October 24, 2007
‘If I die, I die in a good cause’, the haunting words of Thomas Ashe,
spoken just prior to his death on hunger strike in 1917, ninety years
ago this month.
Published October 17, 2007
Oration delivered by Ruairi O Bradaigh, President Republican Sinn Fein
at the funeral of Republican Veteran Dan Keating in County Kerry on
Friday October 5.
Published October 10, 2007
Should the Good Friday Agreement be a model for other conflicts?
Published October 3, 2007
An action alert issued on behalf of the McAllister
family, which is facing deportation from the US.
Published September 27, 2007
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the ‘Flight of the Earls’. We
conclude our series of historical articles on a major event in Irish
history.
Published September 20, 2007
He was a guitar player in one of Ireland’s biggest bands but after
their tour bus was stopped at a checkpoint on a lonely country road
near Newry on July 31 1975, nothing would ever be the same for Stephen
Travers.
Published September 12, 2007
Like a cruel joke, the German demand for Roisin McAliskey’s extradition was
delivered 10 years to the day after she gave birth to Loinnir, under
armed guard, in a London hospital.
Published September 5, 2007
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams recalls his experiences over the years
at the hands of US security officials (from the Guardian newspaper).
Published August 30, 2007
A vicious massacre of defenceless people, written out of history, is
now being written back in by the relatives of those so cruelly cut
down.
Published August 22, 2007
The full text of the address by Sinn Féin President
Gerry Adams at the ‘March for Truth’ rally at Belfast City Hall on
Sunday.
Published August 16, 2007
The organisers of a highly controversial sectarian parade in Dublin,
which had to be abandoned after heavy rioting last year, have said they
have cancelled plans to hold another similar march through the capital
later this year.
Published August 8, 2007
The behaviour of British soldiers in the North was a recruiting
sergeant for the IRA.
Published August 8, 2007
Gerry Adams urges the DUP to copper- fasten the rights of citizens and to implement the agreement on the Irish language made at St Andrews.
Published July 31, 2007
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the ‘Flight of the Earls’. We
examine the background to that major event in Irish history with a
series of historical articles.
Published July 25, 2007
For most of its more than 200-year history the Orange Order and the British
government have been inextricably linked.
Published July 18, 2007
éirígí [meaning ‘rise up’] is a new Irish, Socialist Republican,
political organisation committed to ending the British occupation of
the six counties and the establishment of a thirty-two county
Democratic Socialist Republic.
Published July 11, 2007
175 years ago this month, a group of Irish immigrants left for the New
World to help build a pioneering railroad. Six weeks later all were
dead. Now a search is underway to trace their history and find their
bodies.
Published July 4, 2007
Three orations were made collectively at the graveside of
Theobald Wolfe Tone in Bodenstown on the 17th June, 2007, by three
traditionalist republican groups.
Published June 27, 2007
Hayes, Hutchinson and Patten are undermining the argument promoted by
relatives’ organisations that the British Crown forces should be held
to account for the killing of civilians during the conflict.
Published June 18, 2007
An action request from the Irish Freedom Committee in
response to the British attempts to once again extradite Roisin
McAliskey
Published June 11, 2007
Despite progress in the peace process, British forces in
Ireland are still stifling freedom of information, writes
Anthony McIntyre.
Published June 4, 2007
An article by Nell McCafferty, originally published in
December 1996, recalls the campaign to free Roisin McAliskey following
British attempts to extradite her to Germany.
Published May 29, 2007
A look at the constituencies where republican candidates could make
gains in Thursday’s 26-County election.
Published May 21, 2007
The Executive Summary of Sinn Fein's General Election Manifesto, preceded by a message from Gerry Adams.
Published May 16, 2007
Republican traditionalists met in Derry at the weekend to attempt to
build a united opposition to the new political order in the North and
the “continuing British occupation”.
Published May 15, 2007
A look back at the history of Stormont -- the site of many failed
Six-County political initiatives in the past -- but today the focus
of renewed political hope.
Published May 8, 2007
Next Tuesday, May 8th, marks the 20th anniversary of the Loughgall
ambush, in which 8 IRA Volunteers and a civilian were killed in an SAS
attack.
Published May 2, 2007
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the ‘Flight of the Earls’. We
examine the background to that major event in Irish history with a
series of historical articles.
Published April 27, 2007
It was women like Emma Groves and Annsie Wilkinson in many districts across the north
who provided grass-roots leadership, who helped their besieged
communities learn the skills they needed to survive.
Published April 21, 2007
An action request from the US-based Irish Freedom Committee
on behalf of republican prisoners at Maghaberry prison.
Published April 15, 2007
The “forgotten women” of Irish history who participated in the 1916
Rising were remembered at the weekend.
Published April 10, 2007
Prominent republican and election candidate Gerry McGeough has been
released by the PSNI police on bail following a campaign to being
attention to his controversial arrest and detention earlier this month.
Martin Galvin looks at the case.
Published April 5, 2007
A sea change occurred on Monday when you watched Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley sitting
nearly beside each other at Stormont.
Published March 30, 2007
In a few days time the people of this country will know the answer to
one of the most pressing political questions which has dogged the peace
process for the best part of the last 10 years
Published March 24, 2007
The dream that new legislation would enshrine the rights of the thousands of Irish-speakers has been shattered.
Published March 18, 2007
A constituency-by-constituency look at the Assembly election result.
Published March 13, 2007
Four Sinn Féin candidates were elected in the general election which took place on March 5, 1957, fifty years ago this week.
Published March 7, 2007
The full text of the keynote Presidential address by
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams to the party’s annual conference, which
is taking place this weeekend at the RDS in Dublin.
Published March 3, 2007
A good election result for Sinn Féin in the north will spur party activists on in
their efforts to achieve the long-worked-for breakthrough in the
elections in the south in a few months time.
Published March 1, 2007
A historical account of the background and context of the Bloody Sunday
massacre at Croke Park in 1920.
Published February 25, 2007
US Presidential candidate Barack Obama has issued a statement
outlining his position the Irish peace process. We carry the full
text of the statement, which has been welcomed by a number of
Irish-American groups.
Published February 20, 2007
The full list of candidates in the Belfast Assembly election on 7 March.
Published February 15, 2007
The escape from Long Kesh of Francis McGuigan, 35 years ago this wee, was an important morale booster for the nationalist population
throughout the Six Counties.
Published February 10, 2007
Leading IRSP member Liam O Ruairc takes a critical look at the historic
decision by Sinn Féin to support the PSNI and the political context
which led to it.
Published February 5, 2007
As a response to armed insurrection in the North, the British
government down through the years initiated a campaign of mass murder
and a wider supporting criminality.
Published February 1, 2007
Ten murders which, according to the Police Ombudsman’s report, are
so far confirmed to have involved PSNI/UVF agent Mark Haddock.
Published January 27, 2007
A public statement issued today by police Ombudsman Nuala
O’Loan into collusion between the RUC/PSNI Special Branch and
the north Belfast UVF.
Published January 22, 2007
The text of the key motion to go before the forthcoming special Sinn Fein conference.
Published January 17, 2007
Supporters of the 'Sava Tara' campaign are being asked to sign the online
‘National Monument of Ireland’ petition.
Published January 12, 2007
In Toome last week, the same pledge, principles and
patriotism which had always inspired him, moved Laurence O’Neill to defy a new
attempt to silence him.
Published January 8, 2007
Sean South and Fergal O’Hanlon entered the realms of history and song
when an IRA raid on a County Fermanagh RUC barracks went dramatically
wrong 50 years ago this week.
Published January 4, 2007
A look back at the major events in Irish politics and the peace process over the past twelve months.
Published December 29, 2006
Gerry Adams recounts a Christmas Eve plan to escape Long Kesh.
Published December 23, 2006
There are many files in many filing cabinets in government offices in
Dublin, Belfast and London, containing reports into collusion arising
from enquiries.
Published December 18, 2006
An action alert was issued by the IAUC on the issue of
collusion following the publication of the report of the Cassel
panel on the issue.
Published December 13, 2006
There is a great deal at stake in the dock of the Belfast Diplock
courtroom.
Published December 7, 2006
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams and Willie Gallagher of the Irish
Republican Socialist Party this week presented their differing views
on the policing issue.
Published December 1, 2006
The text of the address by Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams MP speaking
at Friday’s meeting of the transitional Assembly, when he nominated
Martin McGuinness for the position of Deputy First Minister.
Published November 25, 2006
The news at the start of this week that a tiny number of disaffected
former IRA personnel, members of the INLA and other micro groups, are
threatening the lives of Sinn Féin’s leadership is causing great anger
among republicans, disbelief among nationalists and is a source of deep
concern.
Published November 19, 2006
The full text of the President Address by Republican
Sinn Féin leader Ruairi O Bradaigh to his party’s annual Ard-Fheis in
Dublin at the weekend.
Published November 14, 2006
A question haunts reports into collusion -- how high up the chain did
knowledge of and complicity in these atrocities go?
Published November 9, 2006
The first in a series of articles looking back at the history of Long
Kesh prison.
Published November 4, 2006
An extract from Lives Entangled, an essay by Bernadette McAliskey
included in Britain & Ireland: Lives Entwined II.
Published October 30, 2006
An action alert on behalf of the Irish Political
Status Coalition.
Published October 25, 2006
The British have a long history of setting-up what are variously named
inquiries, commissions or tribunals as part of a blatant strategy of
whitewash or cover-up.
Published October 20, 2006
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said “bringing rejectionist unionism into the
peace process would be an enormous achievement”.
Published October 16, 2006
Michael Ferguson's death is a great loss not only to his family but to Sinn Féin and to
the cause of Ireland’s freedom.
Published October 10, 2006
A partial list of republican prisoners published earlier this month.
Published October 5, 2006
Fears are being voiced that “Birmingham Six” style justice is about
to be meted out to South Armagh Republican Sean Hoey, with suspect DNA
evidence being the lynchpin of the framework.
Published September 30, 2006
The prisoners died but a generation later as one contributor describes
it, “....they shine a light that is purer than ever and that points a
steady beam to our future”.
Published September 25, 2006
A new report by the Belfast-based civil liberties group, the Committee
on the Administration of Justice (CAJ), has criticised the British
government's sectarian approach to targeting social need.
Published September 19, 2006
A summary of Sinn Féin’s new all-Ireland policy
document on healthcare.
Published September 15, 2006
Gerry Adams has brought a message of hope to the
Israeli and Palestinian people.
Published September 10, 2006
Even if the involvement of British intelligence is
proven in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, it may still be kept secret.
Published September 5, 2006
An urgent action alert is being distributed by a number of
Irish-American organisations.
Published August 31, 2006
Partition is alive and well in Ireland.
Published August 27, 2006
The tenth and final hunger striker to die in the 1981 hunger strike
was Mickey Devine. He died 25 years ago on Sunday.
Published August 22, 2006
A little known shipping disaster which claimed the lives of almost 50
people from south Armagh during the Famine has inspired a new book.
Published August 18, 2006
An action alert for US readers from the IAUC.
Published August 13, 2006
The story of the ninth hunger strike to die in the 1981 hunger strike.
He passed away on August 8th, 1981.
Published August 10, 2006
The story of Kieran Doherty, the eighth hunger striker to die in 1981,
who passed away 25 years ago on Wednesday.
Published August 5, 2006
The story of INLA Volunteer Kevin Lynch, who died on hunger strike in
Long Kesh prison 25 years ago on Tuesday.
Published July 31, 2006
The full text of a wide-ranging address delivered by Martin McGuinness to the
MacGill Summer School at the weekend.
Published July 25, 2006
There is a historical precedent of “sexing up” a document, one that had major implications for subsequent relations between Ireland and England.
Published July 20, 2006
There are at least three ways of looking at last week’s Twelfth
celebrations.
Published July 17, 2006
This week marks the 25th anniversary of the death of two IRA Volunteers
on hunger strike in Long Kesh jail.
Published July 12, 2006
Jonathan Cook on the real reasons for Israel’s invasion of Gaza.
Published July 7, 2006
The first 26-County commemoration of the Battle of the Somme was held
in Dublin at the weekend, with representatives from all the major
political parties in the North in attendance.
Published July 2, 2006
The Framing of Michael McKevitt, a booklet written by Marcella Sands,
sister-in-law of Michael and sister of Bobby Sands, raises serious
questions about the activities of MI5 in Ireland, collusion by senior
Garda police and a judiciary swayed by political rather than legal
argument.
Published June 27, 2006
The text of Sinn Fein’s annual address over the grave
of Wolfe Tone at Bodenstown. County Kildare. It was delivered at the
weekend by north belfast representative Gerry Kelly.
Published June 22, 2006
There is a very simple yet powerful and time honoured message in Ken
Loach’s new film about the Irish people’s struggle for independence.
Published June 22, 2006
The following is the full text of the Michael Davitt Centenary Lecture,
given by Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams in Castlebar, County Mayo on
Thursday.
Published June 17, 2006
Richard O'Rawe's own words show clearly there was no deal during the 1981 hunger strike.
Published June 11, 2006
Long Kesh is a place apart. Inside and outside its walls it generated
great pain, loss and heroism.
Published June 6, 2006
The hunger strike changed the nationalist community forever.
Published May 30, 2006

This week marked the anniversary of the deaths of the third and
fourth of the 1981 hunger strikers to die, Raymond McCreesh and Patsy
O'Hara.
Published May 27, 2006
Ian Paisley will be conscious of the irony involved in Sinn Fein
going to Stormont to have him elected as First Minister.
Published May 23, 2006
Today is a day many people recall with feelings of sadness and anger
as well as a strong desire for the truth.
Published May 17, 2006
Twenty five years ago on Friday, Francis Hughes, one of the most fearless
and courageous IRA Volunteers to emerge out of the current phase in the
Republican Struggle, lost his life after 59 days on Hunger Strike in
Long Kesh.
Published May 13, 2006
Action alerts on behalf the mcAllister family and the Rossport Five
Published May 8, 2006
Bobby Sands died 25 years ago today, the first of ten to die while on
hunger strike against the British policy of criminalising the
republican struggle. It is a day of mourning for all Irish republicans.
Published May 5, 2006
The victims group An Fhirinne is appealing to the families of people who
were victims of British state killings or collusion to help complete its database.
Published May 3, 2006
May 2006 marks the centenary of the death of Michael Davitt,
nationalist, trade unionist, agrarian agitator and founder of the
National Land League.
Published April 28, 2006
Gerry Kelly spoke on Sunday
at the annual Crossbarry commemoration, remembering the British Army
operation of 1921 which set out to eliminate Tom Barry’s famous Third
West Cork Flying column.
Published April 24, 2006
We shall benefit from the work Siobhan O'Hanlon did in her life - in the freedom
struggle, in the peace process, in the bridges she built.
Published April 21, 2006
An edited version of the address by Sinn Féin’s Gerry
Adams at the annual Easter commemoration in Belfast.
Published April 18, 2006
Just before noon on Easter Monday, April 24th, a group of 150 men
strode out of Liberty Hall in Dublin, then marched toward Sackville
Street (now O’Connell Street) a few hundred yards away.
Published April 14, 2006
For the first time this week the notion of a ‘Plan B’ emerged.
Published April 9, 2006
A review of the new book, 'The Origins and Organisation of British Propaganda in Ireland 1920', by
Brian P Murphy.
Published April 5, 2006
A historian is aiming to rediscover the story of an Irishwoman whose
courage saved the leaders of a rebellion in 1803.
Published April 3, 2006