The grave of an Irish Republican who died in prison in England in 1977 was marked with a new headstone in Glasnevin Cemetery ...

The Irish trade union movement must become a key participant in the current Irish unity discussion. Fundamental ...

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 ...

This weekend we remember Kevin Lynch and Kieran Doherty, the 7th and 8th 1981 hunger strike martyrs. Kevin Lynch died on August 1st after 71 days on hunger strike. Kieran Doherty died August 2nd after ...

THE women of Cumann na mBan were remembered in Liverpool, England, on Saturday despite attempts by Merseyside Police to disrupt the event by placing restrictions on the parade. Assistant Chief ...

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 ...

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 ...

The IRA Chief of Staff and his comrades were on the run with Free State forces closing in on them. The rapid rise of Liam Lynch to national leadership was to come to a tragic end, and with it the ...

Former An Phoblacht Editor and Sinn Féin General Secretary Rita O’Hare has passed away. Speaking this morning, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald TD has said: “I am deeply saddened to announce the ...

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 ...

I commend the Republicans of County Clare for remembering Volunteers Patrick O’Mahony, Christopher Quinn and William O’Shaughnessy and for restoring this memorial plaque. As I put these words together ...

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 ...