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 ...

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.

"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 ...

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 ...

Eighty years ago on 14th August 1940 Seán Russell died on a German U-Boat and his body was committed to the sea. It was a journey that he began as a founder member of the Irish Volunteers and ended as ...

"Ardoyne has lost a faithful son who did all in his power to make our district and our country a better place" In these crazy days of Covid we live in I can’t get along to see the family of my good ...

The opening words which Bobby Sands wrote on the first day of his hunger strike in 1981 have been echoing in my mind during recent weeks…’I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world’. A ...

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 ...

From midnight on Wednesday 31 August 1994 the Irish Republican Army commenced what it described as “a complete cessation of all military operations”. The IRA said it was taking this momentous step “to ...

In early 2025, I became acutely aware that the 50th anniversary of the Sallins Mail Train Robbery frame-up will fall at the end of March 2026. In response, I decided to curate and fund a special ...

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 ...

November 1922 saw a general sweep by Free Staters through Donegal in an effort to end Republican opposition in the county. This sweep was successful in that it captured the vast bulk of Volunteers ...