Forty years after the killing of IRA Volunteer Séamus McElwain, former political prisoner, Sinn Féin MLA and republican ...

There was huge interest among delegates to the presentation on the Triple Lock at last summer’s ICTU Global Solidarity School ...

Sinn Fein MLA Gerry Kelly gave the main oration to a gathering of over 1,000 people in Scotstown, Co. Monaghan, to honour IRA ...

24 April marks the 110th anniversary of the Easter Rising in Ireland, when Irish revolutionaries took on the might of the British empire and declared a national Republic. The Proclamation of the ...

This is a refreshingly thoughtful and reflective book, its author ranging across political ideas in a very readable way. It is, at the very least, a relief from the screaming-chamber of social media, ...

"The connection between the US and the Irish Republicans stretches from the American Revolution to today. It is deep and enduring" For many, the annual influx of politicians to Washington for St.

The recent London court case against Gerry Adams must be seen against the backdrop of a long effort to delegitimise the Irish republican struggle - an effort that, with the collapse of the case, has ...

A couple of weeks ago I walked with a friend from the car park at Cargin Chapel towards the graveyard to attend the 50 th anniversary commemoration for Volunteer Anne McCoy. We spoke about the 40 and ...

For one hundred years now Irish Republicans have worn the Easter Lily emblem to mark the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising and to pay tribute to all those who died for Irish freedom in every phase ...

Between 1976 and 1981 the prisons in the Six Counties became front lines in the struggle for Irish freedom with an intensity and for a duration never seen before in Irish history. This stemmed from ...

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 ...

When Frank Stagg embarked on what was to be his fourth and final hunger strike in a British prison in late 1975, he did so with conviction, clarity of mind and in the full knowledge the authorities ...