In spite of every diplomatic and political avenue having been traversed and re-traversed over again by the Association of Legal Justice, Mr Frank Maguire MP and many more tireless, selfless people to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The bereaved and survivors of this tragedy have borne their sorrow with great dignity for 43 years. Another mother, Gertrude Barrett, who lost her son Michael, was the first to give a pen picture at ...

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 ...

THE Irish Transport and General Workers Union was founded in 1909 and within a few years became the leading organisation of Irish workers. Its growth reflected the resurgence of Irish identity and the ...

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 ...

Knock, Lourdes, Medjugorje, Monto - it's like one of those sequences in which the objective is to 'guess the odd one out'. But there isn't one. Monto - nestled in the heart of Ireland's heathenish ...

When the Partition of Ireland was first proposed in 1914 James Connolly said that such a scheme would mean “a carnival of reaction both North and South”. In the summer of 1920, as the British ...

Former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams takes us inside the last hours of the talks that culminated in the Good Friday Agreement. In the 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement, over half a million ...

In 2005, former republican prisoner Séanna Walsh’s reading of the IRA leadership statement announcing the end of their military campaign was broadcast around the world. Séanna recounts the key steps ...