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 ...

Sinn Féin’s Matt Carthy gave the main address at the annual commemoration for Volunteer Martin ‘Doco’ Doherty, who was killed 31 years ago today.

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 ...

‘The Last Disco - the Story of the Stardust Tragedy’ by Seán Murray, Christine Behan and Nicky Ryan. Published by Eriu.

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.

The recent death of former British Army officer General Frank Kitson prompted a series of obituaries, and in some cases eulogies. Two words cross these accounts of Kitson’s life – ‘controversial’ and ...