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 ...

Austerity, militarism, legacy and the growth of the far-right – Britain’s political trajectory is an added argument for Irish unity Dáire Hughes MP ...

A week that shook the British Empire This feature first appeared in An Phoblacht/Republican News on March 28th 1991 to mark the 75th anniversary of the Easter Rising ...

THE 1916 PROCLAMATION, heralding the establishment of an Irish Republic and read by Pádraig Pearse from the steps of the GPO in Dublin at 12 noon on Easter Monday 1916, is undoubtedly one of the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Writer, journalist, political activist, IRA volunteer and former prisoner Ella O’Dwyer who died suddenly this week is remembered in a personal tribute by her close friend and comrade Martina Anderson.

This is a watershed moment. The future of Palestine demands that the democratic world finally acts decisively in support of the Palestinian people’s fundamental, national and human rights. Israel’s ...

“The Pogues were also unashamedly abrasive and political, at a time when being political about Ireland in Britain was no easy task”. Joe Dwyer offers a tribute to Pogues lead singer Shane MacGowan ...

One hundred years ago this month many families in Ireland were in mourning in the aftermath of the tragic Civil War. But even after the war officially ended more people were plunged into grief and ...