Irish Republican News: Archives

Kneecap have said the British authorities are “already on the back foot” after rap singer Mo Chara was released on unconditional bail by a court in London on Wednesday, pending another court appearance on August 20.

Poll positions

Real votes are a more credible guide than opinion polls, writes Kevin Meaghar. However, it’s now becoming clear that whatever metric you present, the prospect of Irish unity is getting closer all the time.

Nationalists doubt Dublin’s commitment to Irish unity

Northern nationalists felt betrayed by Dublin 100 years ago, after the collapse of the Boundary Commission in December 1925. It left the border unchanged despite their hopes that it would make unification inevitable. Many of their descendants still feel that way.

Where is the outrage over the Winkie Irvine case?

The exceptional story of the arrest, treatment and sentencing of Winston ‘Winkie’ Irvine warrants considerably greater attention and protest than has so far been the case.

The Great Hunger

An introduction to the history of the famine in Ireland, by the Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University.

How do we chart a path to a Border Poll and win it?

We are at the cusp of a great historical inflection point. The opportunity is seized, or it is not, according to author Kevin Meaghar.

Kneecap row shows desperation of Kemi Badenoch

One third of the Irish republican rap trio is facing police action over something that shouldn’t be the British state’s concern.

Israel is starving us in Gaza

It feels as though the Gaza Strip is no longer part of this world, as if we’re living in some distant, forgotten galaxy. Our lives are marked by suffering and strangeness, while the rest of the world carries on as if our reality doesn’t exist.

Bridie Brown’s fight for justice

A plan by the British government to challenge a Court of Appeal ruling directing a public inquiry into the murder of Sean Brown has been greeted with a wave of anger in Ireland.

The vision that Ireland might be free

We republish a day-by-day account of the 1916 Rising, by the late Shane MacThomáis, chief historian of Glasnevin cemetery.

The next step in our island’s journey

The British and Irish Governments are the co-guarantors of the Agreement and in many ways, America is the third guarantor.

Dan Mulvihill

The memoirs of IRA commander and life-long Kerry republican Dan Mulvihill, an aide to anti-Treaty IRA chief of staff, Liam Lynch, reveals the anger of many of his former comrades about developments in the early years of the conflict in the Six Counties.

Hunter was right: Unionists have a coloniser mindset

The English carried out such cultural suppression whenever they took over any part of these islands.

How the Rising was planned

A look at the background to the IRA's heroic fight for independence in 1916, by Mark Duncan.

A courageous advocate for Palestinians

Ms. Francesca Albanese is the Special Rapporteur for the United Nations in the Palestinian territories. She is a remarkable champion for human rights and international law whose moral integrity and deep rooted humanity are an inspiration.

Reject the welfare cuts

Cuts announced this month by the British government Minister Rachel Reeves are set to push thousands of people in the north of Ireland into poverty and have been opposed across the political spectrum.

Chipping away at partition

Carl Duffy, a candidate for Aontú in the last general election in Fermanagh and South Tyrone, lays out a possible ‘inch-by-inch’ approach towards a United Ireland.

The smell of death returns in Gaza

We are in a terrifying new reality, writes Jannah Ahmad Abu Sitta (for the Electronic Intifada).

Remembering Joey Clarke

Fifty years ago this week, Joey Clarke died from gunshot wounds he received when he went to answer a knock at the door of his home off the Ormeau Road. By Anthony Neeson (for belfastmedia.com)

Thatcher’s executions

An account of how former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher personally oversaw an SAS shoot-to-kill ambush that claimed the lives of three republicans in Gibraltar in 1988, 37 years ago this week.

June 19, 2025

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