At that border crossing, I felt like I’d morphed back in time, to what life might have been for me. What it was for my ...

In the end she won by a landslide. Taking 914,143 votes and 63.36% of the total valid poll Catherine Connolly stormed home with the Government-backed candidate Heather Humphreys of Fine Gael getting ...

"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 ...

On 31 October 1973, 31 years ago this week, one of the most spectacular and audacious escapes from an Irish prison took place when three of the IRA's key personnel were airlifted to freedom in a ...

"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 ...

ON 18 OCTOBER 1791, the first Society of United Irishmen was founded in Belfast. Its inspiration was a young Dublin lawyer, Theobald Wolfe Tone, who was invited to Ulster by Presbyterian radicals ...

As a postcolonial society, the Irish Free State established social control in large part by subjugating the rights of women. Their treatment was defined by oppression, abuse and violence, of ...

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 ...

The General Post Office in O’Connell Street was the headquarters of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic. It was occupied by a Headquarters Battalion made up of men drawn from the four ...

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 ...

As I write, the Israeli army is using Irish United Nations peacekeepers in Southern Lebanon as human shields. The Israelis are again invading Lebanon and killing its citizens. And in the past year ...

Choosing a new, progressive social order is not possible if a country is partitioned, annexed, or colonized. A Basque militant once said that national liberation struggle and socialism are two sides ...