IRIS – The Republican Magazine

IRIS – The Republican Magazine is back with a new look for the New Year.
Pearse Doherty says Sinn Féin’s approach to economics puts people at the centre of the party’s Budget proposals.
Séanna Walsh, a close friend of the late Bobby Sands and the man who read the statement on July 28th 2005 declaring a cessation of the IRA’s armed struggle, writes about the ETA ceasefire and how prisoners can secure the peace.
The EU machinations by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicholas Sarkozy are under the spotlight of noted commentator Eoin Ó Murchú, the Kevin Cardiff Court of Auditors row is the subject of Comment by Sinead Ní Bhroin in High Flyers and High Wages, and Dr Ruán O’Donnell of Limerick University is featured on journalist, author and IRA strategist Seán Cronin and Dr O’Donnell’s view that the 1950s Border Campaign (Operation Harvest) is a much under-rated event in history.
Controversial Greek economist and author Yanis Varoufakis took time out during his recent speaking tour in Ireland to be interviewed at length by Robbie Smyth. As Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain and other states grapple daily with the aftermath of their different upheavals, Dara McNeil takes an overview of the Arab Spring and Power Shifts in the Middle East.
IRIS book reviewers look inside the pages of Revolution: A Photographic History of Revolutionary Ireland 1913-1923; Pádraig Yeates’s A City in Wartime: Dublin 1914-1918; George Galloway’s Open Season, about the sectarian campaign against Glasgow Celtic FC manager Neil Lennon; and Robbie Gilligan’s biography of Tony Gregory TD. Rita O’Hare has first-hand experience of the subject matter of Bill Rolston’s Children of the Revolution: The Lives of Sons and Daughters of Activists in Northern Ireland and she gives her personal insight into what she describes as “not an easy read” and a “challenging” study for republican and loyalist activists alike.

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