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
'And so here we stand'
13 December 2022
Mary Lou McDonald, Castletown, Co. Wexford. Sunday, December 11, 2022 Free article
An Phoblacht Issue 4 - 2022 out now
12 December 2022
Time for Change is the theme of the latest An Phoblacht magazine which is available now Free article
Issue 3 of An Phoblacht online
12 December 2022
Issue 3 of An Phoblacht in print has sold out. The articles are now online, but why not get a subscription for An Phoblacht and not miss out on getting the magazine delivered to your door. Free article
The new Free State slays four Republicans in Mountjoy
6 December 2022
The new Irish Free State of 26 Counties officially came into existence on 6 December 1922. Two days later on 8 December its government committed an act that was to define its treacherous nature in the eyes of Republicans for many years - the execution of Liam Mellows, Rory O’Connor, Joe McKelvey and Richard Barrett in Mountjoy Jail. Free article
Seán McIlvenna remembered in Glasgow
5 December 2022
Sinn Féin’s European Representative Martina Anderson was in Glasgow last weekend speaking at an event to mark the 38th anniversary of Volunteer Seán McIlvenna, organised by the flute band named after the Belfast born republican. Free article
Bus workers killed in Dublin bombings remembered 50 years on
1 December 2022
The 50th anniversary of the deaths of three Dublin bus workers was marked in the city on 1 December, the date on which Tommy Duffy and George Bradshaw were killed in Sackville Place off O’Connell Street. Tommy Douglas was killed in the same place on 20 January 1973. Free article
100th Anniversary of Liam Mellows to be marked in Galway
30 November 2022
Galway republicans will remember and commemorate Liam Mellows on 4 December, in Athenry. This Galway Sinn Féin event will commence with a march from Athenry Community Park at 2pm by a piper-led procession walking past his former residence in the town to the 1916 Commemorative Garden. Free article
The siege of Gaza is a humanitarian and political crisis - Declan Kearney
29 November 2022
Writing in his latest blog, Declan Kearney said the siege of Gaza is a humanitarian and political crisis. Free article
The fight for housing justice in Dublin’s Liberties
25 November 2022
To mark this weekend’s Raise the Roof protests we profile the journey of Oliver Bond residents in seeking fair regeneration of their social housing estate within the gentrifying inner-city neighbourhood of the Liberties in Dublin. Free article
Dublin remembers executed Republicans
23 November 2022
The execution of Erskine Childers 100 years ago on 24 November 1922 marked the culmination of the demonisation of this principled, committed and talented Republican activist by both the British and Free State governments. Free article
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