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

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

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

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

The grave of Theobald Wolfe Tone at Bodenstown was for long the site of the largest annual national gathering of republicans. Other events may since have overtaken it in numbers, but it remains the ...

BOBBY SANDS was the most prolific writer of the republican prisoners in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh during the Blanket Protest which lasted from 1976 until 1981. He was in prison for most of that time, ...

There was huge interest among delegates to the presentation on the Triple Lock at last summer’s ICTU Global Solidarity School. As a result Dublin Council of Trade Unions organised a similar ...

A crowd of more than 1,000 people from across the border counties and beyond gathered in Scotstown, Co. Monaghan, to honour IRA Volunteer Séamus McElwain on the 40th anniversary of his death in a ...

The flag of the ship that carried out the daring rescue of six Fenians from Western Australia 150 years ago this week is to go on display in the National Museum - but only for a mere two days. The US ...

It was with profound sadness that I heard on Easter Sunday of the death of my friend and comrade Terry ‘Cruncher’ O’Neill. Terry was a former political prisoner, an Óglach, a musician, an actor and a ...

A couple of weeks ago I walked with a friend from the car park at Cargin Chapel towards the graveyard to attend the 50 th anniversary commemoration for Volunteer Anne McCoy. We spoke about the 40 and ...

When Frank Stagg embarked on what was to be his fourth and final hunger strike in a British prison in late 1975, he did so with conviction, clarity of mind and in the full knowledge the authorities ...