Irish republicans from across Ireland and Scotland gathered in Coatbridge this weekend to remember the late Irish republican ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

“I believe that those who die for Ireland have no need of prayer” ‑ Liam Mellows, final letter to his mother, 1922. On the morning of 8 December 1922, Liam Mellows went to his death along with three ...

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 ...

This feature first appeared in An Phoblacht/Republican News on March 28th 1991 to mark the 75th anniversary of the Easter Rising IT IS NO EXAGGERATION to say that the events of Easter Week in 1916 ...

Bobby Sands was born in 1954 in the predominantly loyalist district of Rathcoole in North Belfast. The eldest of four children, he left school in 1969 and went to work, apprenticing as a coach-maker.

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 ...

“An IRA Volunteer’s epic and breath-taking memoir of survival and ultimate triumph in the H Blocks of Long Kesh”, states the blurb on the cover of Jim ‘Jaz’ McCann’s book 6,000 Days. In reality, this ...