Bobby Sands leads new hunger strike
29 February 2024
March 1st marks the 43rd anniversary of the beginning of the 1981 hunger strikes. An Phoblacht will be opening our archives which house a unique repository of articles and photographs from the hunger strike period. In the coming weeks we will be profiling these pieces along with new insights into this critical period in the history of republican struggle. Free article
Easter Week 1916 Remembered in Glasgow
29 March 2023
Hundreds of people turned out for Glasgow’s 1916 Easter Rising Commemoration last weekend. Sinn Féin TD Pádraig Mac Lochlainn was the main speaker. Free article
‘Let us end futile recriminations’ - towards a new, united future
26 March 2023
Writing in his latest blog, Declan Kearney says it’s time to end ‘futile recriminations’ and move towards a new, united future. Free article
Sinn Féin on Councils leads eviction ban fight
21 March 2023
Sinn Féin Councillors have been leading the fight on the Councils for the reversal of the Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael-Green Government decision to lift the ban on evictions at the end of March. In one Council the entire Sinn Féin group walked out in protest after the mayor refused to allow discussion of their emergency motion. Free article
Centenary of the Drumboe Martyrs
12 March 2023
November 1922 saw a general sweep by Free Staters through Donegal in an effort to end Republican opposition in the county. This sweep was successful in that it captured the vast bulk of Volunteers operating in the county or forced them to go on the run in other counties. Free article
Let us salute Óglach Rita O'Hare
10 March 2023
A life time of activism was marked and celebrated this week at the funeral of Rita O’Hare, a former editor of An Phoblacht, Sinn Féin Director of Publicity, and IRA volunteer. Free article
Former An Phoblacht Editor Rita O’Hare has passed away
4 March 2023
A highly intelligent and strategic political thinker, Rita was also an articulate communicator and skilled publicist who was to the fore in pushing the boundaries, allowing Sinn Féin to develop into the modern, successful and popular political party that it is today. Rita’s key role in these developments will be her enduring political legacy. Free article
Ballyseedy and Countess Bridge – 100 years on
2 March 2023
By the beginning of March 1923 the Civil War had taken a terrible toll across Ireland and worse was yet to come, especially in County Kerry. The war was intense there, with fierce fighting and many casualties between the strongly anti-Treaty Kerry IRA and the Free State forces that had invaded by sea at Fenit and captured Tralee the previous August. Free article
Workers and public services need progressive power-sharing in the north - Declan Kearney
28 February 2023
Writing in his latest blog, Declan Kearney has said workers and public services need a progressive Executive up and running in the north. Free article
New book on Galway’s Roll of Honour
15 February 2023
Eoin Ó Broin TD will launch a new book produced by Galway Sinn Féin on the county’s republican Roll of Honour. The launch will take place in Club Áras na nGael, Galway City, on Monday, February 20 next at 7pm. Free article
Brendan Behan, a rebel and a writer
9 February 2023
Brendan Behan was born of republican parents Stephen Behan and Kathleen Kearney on 9 February 1923, in Holles Street Hospital, Dublin. The Civil War was at its height and Stephen was an IRA prisoner in Kilmainham Jail. Brendan's association with Irish republicanism, though chequered, was to last his lifetime. Free article
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