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 ...

On the 50th anniversary of the Miami Showband massacre we re-publish this article by the late Ella O’Dwyer, first published in 2007. THE Miami Showband massacre took place 31 July 1975, near Newry, in ...

Every effort by the Orange Order to rebrand the “Twelfth” as “Orangefest” and their “Battle not the Bottle” campaign have been abject failures. Every now and again, the ghost of the Orange State ...

It is undeniable that the global Irish diaspora has played a crucial role by promoting the political, economic and cultural interests of the Irish nation in every corner of the world In early May, I ...

Republicans from Finglas and around Dublin gathered last weekend to pay tribute to Volunteer Martin ‘Doco’ Doherty, who was shot dead 31 years ago today. Doherty was killed at the Widow Scallan’s pub ...

We need to invest in public services, protect those in need, and improve daily life for workers, families and communities Last July saw the Tories emphatically ejected from government in Britain. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ONE of the most successful and spectacular escapes during the present struggle for freedom was the mass breakout by 19 republican prisoners from Portlaoise Prison in the summer of 1974. In November ...

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 ...