Irish Republican News: Archives

While the worlds’ attention was diverted by the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, Israeli forces have been attacking schools including a UN-run school in Nuseirat camp, where they killed 17 and wounded about 80, mostly women and children. A report by al-Jazeera.

Remembering Martin Hurson

Martin Hurson became the sixth republican to die on hunger strike this week in 1981. In this archive article by Connla Young for Daily Ireland, his fiancee recalls the place where the couple grew up.

Changing electoral map shows need for border poll criteria

By Sinn Féin retaining its seven seats and the DUP losing three of its eight, another historic electoral milestone was reached.

The British Army’s rape of Kenya

The British Army trains in Kenya. Many women say soldiers raped them and abandoned children they fathered. A report by Larry Madowo (for CNN)

Julian Assange is free, but media smears continue

Even as Julian Assange has been reunited with his family following a deal with the US government, the BBC and others in the media are peddling the same long-discredited lies. By Jonathan Cook (for Declassified UK).

The Gough Barracks Raid

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) made an audacious raid on Gough Barracks in Armagh town on June 12, 1954, sixty years ago this week. It marked the reawakening of IRA activity in Ireland and a re-arming that leads eventually to the 1956-1962 Border Campaign.

Only months for Sinn Féin to find answers

The council and Euro elections in the south were in some ways uncannily like those in 2019, but in other ways different.

A tribute to Michael Gaughan

A tribute to Michael Gaughan, who died on hunger strike in Parkhurst Prison in London, fifty years ago this week.

Goodbye and good riddance to our Brexit hard men

They imposed Brexit on the north, which the majority of people opposed, because neither of them knew anything about Ireland and cared less about the consequences.

Details of 1921 Derry prison break unearthed

A recently unearthed document provides a valuable insight into Derry’s history. By Seamus McKinney (for the Irish News)

The collective amnesia over the Dublin-Monaghan bombings

The Dublin-Monaghan bombings directly affected thousands of people, not just the relatives of the 33 people and an unborn baby who were killed, but the hundreds injured and their families.

Immigrants are not the enemy

Conservative and right wing elements are exploiting the issue of asylum seekers and immigrants or race to advance their own agenda.

‘We won’t be silenced’

The family of an Armagh teenager shot dead by a British state agent say their campaign for justice won’t be stopped. “We know the truth; what we want is for it to be recorded, set down in history, that this man killed Gavin.”

Remembering the forgotten victims of Dublin and Monaghan

The Dublin and Monaghan car bombings were the single biggest atrocity of the conflict committed in one day. Last Friday a new documentary film on the massacre opened in Dublin.

Immigration and border tensions make Unity more urgent

The May 2024 local election results in England have confirmed what the opinion polls have suggested for the past year. The Conservatives are destined to lose the next UK General Election. But their actions for the remainder of their time in government can still have an impact on both Britain and Ireland.

There cannot be an official history of the Troubles

There was a revealing spat last week between the NIO and academic historians about the British government’s plans to bowdlerise the original historical archival proposals in the Stormont House Agreement (SHA) on legacy

The opportunity for a new beginning

As former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson was mobbed by a media scrum outside Newry Courthouse following a first court hearing of shock sex crime charges dating back to 1985, DUP interim leader Gavin Robinson has been appealing for unionist unity. Unionism can use the current crisis to plan for the future.

New memorial stone to mark anniversary of Peggy Whyte

The son of a woman murdered in a UVF bomb attack on her south Belfast home has said the Catholic community living in the Lower Ormeau Road area were one of the most targeted during the conflict.

Legacy of Bobby Sands MP’s victory

The election of hunger striker Bobby Sands as a Westminster MP 43 years ago marked an historic change and set the Provisional movement on the path to political settlement.

Harris couldn’t care less about the North

The Irish government must be the only one in the world which has an objective, a constitutional imperative, repeated dutifully, religiously, but no plan to achieve it and refuses to do anything to achieve it.

July 18, 2024

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