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 ...
Ninety years ago today on 17 July 1936, Spanish generals led by Francisco Franco began a coup against the democratically elected government of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
MYSTERY surrounds why information was withheld from the courts for 35 years that a member of an Ulster Defence Association death squad that murdered a prominent Protestant anti-H-Blocks activist in ...
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 ...
A century ago in the summer of 1925 the Boundary Commission established under the Anglo-Irish Treaty was hearing evidence on the ground in the Six Counties as it prepared its report and considered ...