Between 1976 and 1981 the prisons in the Six Counties became front lines in the struggle for Irish freedom with an intensity for a duration never seen ...
Fianna Fáil Taoiseach Mícheál Martin has gone from delaying progress towards Irish Unity to actually becoming an obstacle to that objective which is ...
The story of one of the bloodiest engagements of the War of Independence will be recreated by local historians as part of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Cúl na Cathrach Ambush, east ...
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 ...
Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald announced on Monday that party representatives will not participate in St Patrick’s Day ...
IN JUNE 1974, Ireland was in turmoil as the Troubles were in their fifth year. In the Six Counties, internment without trial was in force and the British Army was on the rampage throughout nationalist ...
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.
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 ...
This month marks the 80th anniversary of the United Nations Charter being adopted, which has become the foundation of the United Nations itself and our international law framework. The Charter ...
At a recent lecture on Ernie O’Malley by the historian and Sinn Féin Councillor Mícheál Mac Donncha, I was chatting with Belinda Nugent from the O’Malley/Russell Cumann and I mentioned that my Granda ...