Irish citizens in the north of Ireland and those living abroad are still disenfranchised from participation in the democratic process to elect Uachtarán na hÉireann — the Irish head of state. This ...

Sinn Féin’s Matt Carthy gave the main address at the annual commemoration for Volunteer Martin ‘Doco’ Doherty, who was killed ...

Republicans across the Northwest attended the annual commemoration for 1916 martyr Seán Mac Diarmada on 11 May. The niece and ...

Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform party made hugely significant and substantial gains. They are consolidating their position as a third force in British politics. Their toxic brand of neo-liberalism, ...

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 ...

ELLA O’DWYER is from County Tipperary. MARTINA ANDERSON is from the Bogside in Derry. Both were arrested in Glasgow in June 1985 with Gerry ‘Blute’ McDonnell, Peter Sherry and Pat Magee, ‘The Brighton ...

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 ...

I can’t remember the last time I read a book so quickly or enjoyed one so much as this. The words of Máire Comerford’s revolutionary memoirs leap off the page and in its vivid recollection and ...

Mitchel McLaughlin tracks the development of the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign and also highlights some of the key events on the road to that tragic day on 30 January 1972 He shows how the seeds of ...

As many enthusiasts of the United Irish era will know, the rebel forces of County Down gathered in the days preceding the Battle of Ballynahinch on nearby Ednavaddy Hill. So on route to Rostrevor this ...