From Chelsea debutante to the IRA

ROSE DUGDALE came from a wealthy English background and her journey into the Irish republican struggle stems from her inherent interest in the world around her. From her idyllic childhood on a farm in Devon, to her nine-year prison sentence and finally her progression into Sinn Féin, Rose’s contribution to republicanism is being honoured at this... Free article

Power to the People! Direct democracy in action

“POWER TO THE PEOPLE!” cried Wolfie Smith, the 1970s BBC sitcom bedsit revolutionary of the ‘Tooting Popular Front’, to a chuckling but otherwise indifferent audience. But isn’t that what democracy is meant to be about? If the people are to be sovereign, then how do we organise politics to allow that?
Direct democracy is the idea is... Free article

Leonard Peltier: 35 years in prison

AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier has been held in solitary confinement under oppressively hot conditions since 27th June for minor prison disciplinary violations which his attorney maintains he did not commit.
Peltier, age 66 and in declining health, was held in what he describes as “a steel and concrete box with no... Free article

SIX REPUBLICANS who have given outstanding service to the cause of Irish freedom are being honoured at the 2011 Le Chéile celebration being held around the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis.

ANNIE CAHILL

ANNIE CAHILL was born 10th April 1935 at Whiterock Drive, Belfast. She was one of nine children born to Edward and Ethel Magee.
It was on Bodenstown Sunday in 1953 that Annie first met Joe... Free article

WHEN Declan Kearney rang me to check was he sound to move the Ard Fheis out of Dublin, I gave him the all clear without much thought. Like any right-thinking person I assumed this meant the event would now be moved to Ireland’s first city of Cork, instead of being held to ransom by those sods in 44, who consider it an adventure of epic proportions to travel to the RDS from... Free article

ECONOMICS and the euro crisis are set to dominate agendas across all Brussels institutions, in member state capitals, and in people’s lives right across the continent.
Over the coming months, EU leaders will either continue on the same dire path or face up to the economic and social realities they have so far ignored. Having dealt disastrously with the crisis so far, disregarding... Free article

BHÍ sceitimíní orm, an lá sin, nuair a tháinig mo chárta teachta chugam mar ionadaí thar cheann Chumann Sheán Dolan, Doire Trasna, chuig Ard Fheis Sinn Féin, imeacht mór san fhéilire poblachtach, i dTeach an Ardmhéara i mBaile Átha Cliath siar i Mí Dheireadh Fómhair 1975.
Bhí beirt againn ainmnithe ag an chumann, Tommy McGlinchey, iarchime ar scaoileadh saor ón Cheis Fhada níos... Free article

One of the finest comrades and bravest soldiers

A MEMORIAL STONE was unveiled to the socialist republican Peter Daly in Monageer, Enniscorthy, County Wexford, on Saturday 3rd September by the recently-formed Peter Daly Society. Peter was an IRA Volunteer and fought with distinction in the fight against fascism and in defence of the Spanish Republic with the International Brigades... Free article

THE 2011 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis assembles 25 years after one of the most significant debates and one of the most momentous decisions made by republicans – the ending of the policy of refusing to take seats in Leinster House. That debate came to a head and the issue was decided at the 1986 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis in Dublin.
Sixty years before that, Eamon de Valera had departed from... Free article

CORK

CLONAKILTY REPUBLICAN WEEKEND
Remembering the 1981 Hunger Strike – 30 years on, and Remembering Volunteer Diarmuid O’Neill, Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th September. For more information see advert on page 11 or contact Clonakilty Sinn Féin 086 2202029 / [email protected]