Ninety years ago today on 17 July 1936, Spanish generals led by Francisco Franco began a coup against the democratically ...

The Bloody Sunday massacre effectively ended the Civil Rights movement as people were shot off the streets. As the song says: ...

BRENDAN BEHAN was born of republican parents Stephen Behan and Kathleen Kearney on 9 February 1923, in Holles Street Hospital, Dublin. The Civil War was at its height and Stephen was an IRA prisoner ...

Local Liverpool trade unionist and political activist groups marched through the heart of the city centre last weekend to ...

“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 ...

The prospect of Irish unity is no longer a distant dream. It is an achievable objective. That did not happen by accident. It ...

A nationality which may embrace Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter – Milesian and Cromwellian – the Irishman of a hundred generations, and the stranger who is within our gates THOMAS DAVIS was one of ...

September and October 2023 mark the 40th and 50th anniversaries respectively of the H-Block escape of 1983 and the Mountjoy helicopter escape of 1973. As well as breaking tight security and securing ...

James McVeigh’s first novel ‘Stolen Faith’ was published recently and reviewed in An Phoblacht online. We asked James to write for us on the wider story of his journey through the H-Blocks on to being ...

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 ...

11 May marks the 75th anniversary of the death on hunger and thirst strike of IRA leader Seán McCaughey in Portlaoise Prison. Seán was born in Aughnacloy, Co. Tyrone in 1915 and in 1921 his family ...

THIS PAST WEEK marked the 50th anniversary of the killing of Catholic man John Scullion by the resurrected Ulster Volunteer Force led by Gusty Spence. And with the anniversary comes fresh calls for a ...