I have just returned from Washington, where Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald met with congressional members and Irish American and Trade Union ...

The grave of Theobald Wolfe Tone at Bodenstown was for long the site of the largest annual national gathering of republicans.

THE Irish Transport and General Workers Union was founded in 1909 and within a few years became the leading organisation of Irish workers. Its growth reflected the resurgence of Irish identity and the ...

The Fianna Fáil government of Eamon De Valera imposed internment in July 1957 in response to the IRA’s renewed Resistance Campaign. The unionist government at Stormont had already imposed internment ...

Knock, Lourdes, Medjugorje, Monto - it's like one of those sequences in which the objective is to 'guess the odd one out'. But there isn't one. Monto - nestled in the heart of Ireland's heathenish ...

Populism pits the people against an elite. It values the wisdom of ordinary women and men over the technical knowledge of the expert. Its politics is expansive and participative, not restricted to the ...

October 13 2007 marks the formal winding up of the Irish Political Prisoners Children’s Holiday (IPPCH) programme, after 26 years in operation. The Programme was founded in 1981 to alleviate 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 ...

Women have a long and proud record in the story of Ireland’s resistance to occupation. That role was not sufficiently acknowledged or recorded in the past. Women have been involved in every stage of ...

On 4 December 1983, at the height a crown forces' shoot-to-kill policy, two unarmed IRA Volunteers were summarily executed by undercover British operatives. Nineteen-year-old Brian Campbell and ...

When it comes to the commemorations of the events of 1916–1923, the battle continues between Fine Gael and the rest of us. As far as Fine Gael are concerned, there is nothing inspiring or ...

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 ...