Today the Proclamation’s timeless values and principles continue to inspire progressives and democrats in Ireland and beyond. The Rising occurred at the dawn of the 20th century, during which seismic ...

Easter 1976 marked the 60th anniversary of the 1916 Rising with the armed conflict ongoing in the Six Counties while in ...

Gerry Adams remembers Terry 'Cruncher' O’Neill. He was ‘an incomparable singer of Irish songs of resistance’, and ‘a ...

When six escaped Fenian prisoners in Western Australia climbed on board a whaling ship called the Catalpa in April 1876 it was the culmination of efforts that had spanned two continents, an entire ...

A Nation for All - Solidarity, Democracy & Sovereignty’ by Caoilfhionn Ní Dhonnabháin. Published by Green Island Press.

The flag of the ship that carried out the daring rescue of six Fenians from Western Australia 150 years ago this week is to ...

The death occurred on Friday 21 February of Brendan McFarlane, who was a Republican leader inside and outside the prisons, known and respected by generations of activists across Ireland and beyond.

This book is of major historic importance. Once and for all it buries the myth peddled for decades by the political, academic and media establishment in the 26 Counties that Fianna Fáil Taoiseach Jack ...

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 ...

This month marks the 80th anniversary of the United Nations Charter being adopted, which has become the foundation of the United Nations itself and our international law framework. The Charter ...

Eighty years ago on 14th August 1940 Seán Russell died on a German U-Boat and his body was committed to the sea. It was a journey that he began as a founder member of the Irish Volunteers and ended as ...

On 2 September last, the day before Ronnie McCartney’s 72 nd birthday, he was given the news in the City Hospital that he had Stage 4 cancer, that chemo would not help, and that he had between six and ...