The Easter Rising in 1916 was a pivotal event in Ireland’s history. It is the story that we grew up hearing, those who died ...

It is obvious that a national dialogue on the future direction of the Palestinian liberation struggle is essential. The current status quo is untenable. A new initiative is required. Those of us who ...

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 ...

"We are unambiguously anti-racist, anti-sectarian and anti-fascist; committed to equality, social justice and human rights for all citizens" Two weeks ago, racist pogroms were mounted against ethnic ...

Between 17 November 1922 and 26 February 1923 the Free State government had executed 55 Republican prisoners in the jails. Four of these were in Tralee but, as in the rest of the Free State, many more ...

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 ...

It is time for all strands of Irish national democratic opinion to gather in a single political forum or convention to deliberate, agree, and, then speak with one voice on how to plan for Irish unity, ...

Women have a long and proud record in the story of Ireland’s resistance to occupation. That role was not sufficiently acknowledged or recorded in the past. Women have been involved in every stage 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 ...

Republicans in Dublin marked the passing earlier this month of Gerry Quinn originally from Galway, but who lived in the Crumlin area of Dublin for most of his life, other than a stay in Portlaoise ...

When the people of Ireland and in particular the people of the Ballymacarrett-Short Strand woke up on the morning of the 28th June 1970, they woke up to a different Ireland, to a very different ...

The state of public finances and ability to deliver decent public services in the north are facing unprecedented challenges. For 14 years from 2010, successive British Tory administrations imposed ...