National Self-Determination - The Key International Struggle of our Times
11 April 2024
Writing for An Phoblacht, Sinn Féin national chairperson Declan Kearney said national determination is the key international struggle of our times. Free article
A global Palestinian anti-apartheid movement is urgently needed - Declan Kearney
11 August 2022
Writing in his latest blog, Declan Kearney outlines the need for a global anti-apartheid movement in support of the Palestinian people. Free article
Execution of Reginald Dunne and Joseph O’Sullivan 100 years ago
10 August 2022
Often in history, and in politics, plans are overtaken by events. This could be said of the execution by two IRA Volunteers of Henry Wilson, the British military advisor to James Craig's Stormont parliament in 1922. Shot dead on the steps of his home, his death has been associated with the Free State's decision to attack the republican garrison in the Four Courts, thus setting the Civil War in train in earnest. Free article
A Republican story of women in struggle
5 August 2022
Síle Darragh’s ground breaking account of her imprisonment in Armagh Gaol has been republished with a new foreword by Rita O’Hare who writes of Síle’s moving and powerfully evocative story. You can read it exclusively here. Free article
Harry Boland
31 July 2022
The death of Harry Boland, coming less than a month after that of Cathal Brugha, was a major blow to the Republican cause. He was fatally wounded in Skerries, Co. Dublin, 100 years ago and died in hospital on 1 August 1922. Free article
Irish unity is the big idea whose time has come: It’s time to plan – Declan Kearney
22 July 2022
Writing in his latest blog, Declan Kearney outlines Sinn Féin's plans for a new 'Commission on the Future of Ireland’ with the first People's Assembly taking place in October in Belfast. Free article
Remembering Martina Shanahan
22 July 2022
Friends, family and comrades of Martina Shanahan gathered in Dublin’ Mount Jerome cemetery last weekend, to remember and celebrate the life of the republican activist who died in Spain last year after battling a long illness. Free article
Have your say on the new Ireland
18 July 2022
“This is an opportunity for citizens to have their say on the future of Ireland” said Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald as she launched the party’s wide ranging Commission on the Future of Ireland. Free article
Josie Sheppard
11 July 2022
Republicans from Dublin and Belfast were among the hundreds of who attended the funeral of Josie Sheppard of Donaghmede, Dublin, on 7 July. Free article
James Hazlett - a tribute
7 July 2022
It was with some sadness that the republican family in Dublin, Derry, Donegal and further afield learned of the death of James Hazlett in the early hours of Saturday morning, 25 June 2022, aged 71. Free article
Remembering Óglach Tina Shannon
6 July 2022
Republicans across Ireland were saddened to hear of the death of Tina Shannon last week. Many travelled to her funeral in Dublin where Eamonn Nolan gave the graveside oration for a remarkable and courageous republican activist. Free article
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