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 Special Powers Act, one of the most repressive pieces of legislation ever enacted anywhere, was extensively used for 50 years by the Unionist regime in the Six Counties. In March 1922, at 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 ...
ON 8 March 1966, Vice-Admiral Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson was removed from his pillar in O'Connell Street. Nelson's Pillar was, as the name would suggest, a large granite pillar topped by a statue of ...
The execution of Kevin Barry in Mountjoy Prison at 8am on 1 st November 1920 was the first prison execution of an Irish Republican by the British government since the execution of the 16 Easter Rising ...
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 ...
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 ...
ONE of the most successful and spectacular escapes during the present struggle for freedom was the mass breakout by 19 republican prisoners from Portlaoise Prison in the summer of 1974. In November ...
"Sinn Féin is absolutely committed to helping achieve that ambition through progressive public policy and legislation, a rights-based, multi-racial and multi-cultural Ireland" - Declan Kearney Inez ...
11 May marks the 75th anniversary of the death on hunger and thirst strike of IRA leader Seán McCaughey in Portlaoise Prison. Seán was born in Aughnacloy, Co. Tyrone in 1915 and in 1921 his family ...
The events of Bloody Sunday 1920 began with the IRA striking a major blow in the intelligence war which had raged and intensified between them and the British regime in Dublin Castle since 1916. But ...
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