Every effort by the Orange Order to rebrand the “Twelfth” as “Orangefest” and their “Battle not the Bottle” campaign have been abject failures. Many see the Twelfth period as something more akin to ...

Urgent, universal collective action is needed to bring Israel to account. The holocaust of the Palestinian people and the colonisation of their lands must be stopped. There are no grey areas. There ...

With no rising in sight in Ulster in 1798, despite the signals coming from Dublin, one man seized the initiative and assembled the United Irish forces to assert Ireland’s right to independence. That ...

Eighty years ago on 6 September 1940 a Free State Army firing squad executed two IRA Volunteers a veteran of the 1916 Rising and his young comrade born in that year. Paddy McGrath and Thomas Harte ...

At a recent lecture on Ernie O’Malley by the historian and Sinn Féin Councillor Mícheál Mac Donncha, I was chatting with Belinda Nugent from the O’Malley ...

"Sinn Féin is absolutely committed to helping achieve that ambition through progressive public policy and legislation, a rights-based, multi-racial and multi-cultural Ireland" - Declan Kearney Inez ...

In 2007, for a Christmas edition An Phoblacht sat down with Ella O’Dwyer and Martina Anderson to capture their prison Christmas experiences. It is a grea ...

Chris Hazzard and Mick Murphy visited the grave of United Irishman Tom Dunn. Chris gives context to importance of Dunn 225 years since the 1798 rebellion.

The 40th anniversary of the anti-apartheid strike in Dunnes Stores commemorates the historic event that highlighted workers' solidarity against apartheid in South Africa.

Hooded Men – Testimony on torture during internment Taken from 'Torture – The Record of British Brutality in Ireland' (1972) ...

Éirí Amach na Cásca – The 1916 Easter Rising - Map and description of the main battles and major events ...

The annual National Hunger Strike Commemoration will be held in Cork City for the first time ever this year on Sunday 27 August. Sinn Féin’s National Com ...