Fianna Fáil Taoiseach Mícheál Martin has gone from delaying progress towards Irish Unity to actually becoming an obstacle to that objective which is ...
Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald announced on Monday that party representatives will not participate in St Patrick’s Day ...
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 ...
Beidh daoine ann sna glúnta romhainn a thabharfaidh a mionn leat go raibh siad i láthair ag Ard Fheis stairiúil Chonradh na ...
50 years ago this week Proinsias (Frank) Stagg was on the last days of his hunger strike. His protest was to demand an end to the inhuman treatment to which he had been subjected as an Irish ...
Eighty years ago on 14th August 1940 Seán Russell died on a German U-Boat and his body was committed to the sea. It was a journey that he began as a founder member of the Irish Volunteers and ended as ...
This book is of major historic importance. Once and for all it buries the myth peddled for decades by the political, academic and media establishment in the 26 Counties that Fianna Fáil Taoiseach Jack ...
With no rising in sight in Ulster in 1798, despite the signals coming from Dublin, one man seized the initiative and assembled the United Irish forces to assert Ireland’s right to independence. That ...
Eighty years ago on 6 September 1940 a Free State Army firing squad executed two IRA Volunteers a veteran of the 1916 Rising and his young comrade born in that year. Paddy McGrath and Thomas Harte had ...
Twenty years ago this month, ten workers from the Henry Street branch of Dunnes Stores in Dublin’s city centre went on strike to protest the selling of produce from Apartheid South Africa. A year ...
Divisions within the IRA and Sinn Féin which had been deepening during the late 1960s, were widened to breaking point in the weeks and months that followed the events of August 1969 in the Six ...
The death occurred on Friday 21 February of Brendan McFarlane, who was a Republican leader inside and outside the prisons, known and respected by generations of activists across Ireland and beyond.