The hardest place to be an Irish Republican at that time was in Britain” - Republicans in London and South Derry mark the 50th anniversary of the death ...
The Bloody Sunday massacre effectively ended the Civil Rights movement as people were shot off the streets. As the song says: ...
BRENDAN BEHAN was born of republican parents Stephen Behan and Kathleen Kearney on 9 February 1923, in Holles Street Hospital, Dublin. The Civil War was at its height and Stephen was an IRA prisoner ...
A nationality which may embrace Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter – Milesian and Cromwellian – the Irishman of a hundred generations, and the stranger who is within our gates THOMAS DAVIS was one of ...
Local Liverpool trade unionist and political activist groups marched through the heart of the city centre last weekend to ...
The prospect of Irish unity is no longer a distant dream. It is an achievable objective. That did not happen by accident. It ...
Today marks fifty years since the death of Frank Stagg – the young Mayo man who gave his life on hunger strike in Wakefield Prison on 12 February 1976. Half a century later, his courage, his ...
Ninety years ago today on 17 July 1936, Spanish generals led by Francisco Franco began a coup against the democratically elected government of the ...
Three significant outcomes have begun to crystallise in the aftermath of the most recent Irish general election. First, Sinn Féin has been consolidated as the third major political force in the ...
On the 50th anniversary of the Miami Showband massacre we re-publish this article by the late Ella O’Dwyer, first published in 2007. THE Miami Showband massacre took place 31 July 1975, near Newry, in ...
"We are unambiguously anti-racist, anti-sectarian and anti-fascist; committed to equality, social justice and human rights for all citizens" Two weeks ago, racist pogroms were mounted against ethnic ...
As many enthusiasts of the United Irish era will know, the rebel forces of County Down gathered in the days preceding the Battle of Ballynahinch on nearby Ednavaddy Hill. So on route to Rostrevor this ...