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15 December, 2005 |
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Interview - Former republican POW Joe McKenny 
Jim Gibney recently interviewed former republican prisoner Joe McKenny. Here he tells the extraordinary story of a man who spent eleven years in English jails before his transfer to Portlaoise Prison in the Irish midlands as a result of the Peace Process and who was over 7O years of age when he was finally released. Joe McKenny's story gives an intriguing insight into life for northern nationalists from the 1930s and to the early days of the resurgent IRA in the early 1970s Photo: Joe McKinney 1966-2006: Ireland - 50 years after the Rising 
2006 marks marks the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising of 1916. The run up to this anniversary has seen the 26-County Government, spurred on by the re-popularising of republicanism in general, and rising support for Sinn Féin in particular, announce the reinstatement of the state commemoration of the Rising. 
Republicans need to be generous and imaginative in their approaches to the unionist community. Dialogue and engagement is the route to a shared future and republicans will necessarily be in the vanguard of this process. Photo: Alex Maskey 
Irish traditional music is heard, respected and enjoyed today on electronic media and in live performance all over the world but it was once the object of snobbery and derision in this country. Women's inequality - legacy of Irish counter-revolution 
In an article first published in Múscail last February, Caolfhionn Ní Dhonnabháin argues that the current appallingly low level of female participation in parliament and positions of power in the 26 Counties, must be viewed against the backdrop of partition and the subsequent development of the Free State. Photo: Countess Markievicz Bah humbug! Christmas Holiday season not to everyone's taste - BY MICK DERRIG 
Yes comrades it is indeed THAT time of year again. Most of us are looking forward to the break, Christmas dinner and the whole show. There is, of course, one amongst us who hates this entire time of year. Republicanism's own resident Scrooge can't help himself at Christmas. He hates it and every year he lets us know why. 
There are those refusenik republicans who look on Christmas as an irritable hurdle to be endured and never enjoyed, all because they can't understand why such a frivolous undertaking should stop them from important, nay vital, work at the revolutionary coal face. Photo: James Connolly Blair's Budget Blues - By Eoin Ó Broin • This news feature is funded by the European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) If Long Kesh walls could talk - BY MICHELLE BOYLE 
These were the chilling words used by a Blanket man to describe the conditions in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh during the infamous Blanket Protest. Words, which 30 years on still send a shiver down the spine of those who reads them. The H-Blocks will no doubt hold this imagery for many who lived through these times. But perhaps most will remember it as the place where, in 1981 led by Bobby Sands, ten men died on hunger strike. Books - Remarkable man, remarkable book 
Books worth buying this Christmas Photo: Aidan Troy Memories of Christmas and prisons 
Jim McVeigh on Christmas parole from the H-Blocks and those still in jail Photo: Jim McVeigh Tim Kennelly and the era of the two giants I never met Tim Kennelly and yet he was a part of my childhood. In the same way as Gay O'Driscoll and Mikey Sheehy and Heffo and Mick O'Dwyer. So it was a shock to hear that he had died. Dáréag Lá na Nollag - Le Seán Ó Donaile An Taobh Íseal-Ionaid Siopadóireachta. Ar an chéad lá ..agus mé óg thug mé cuairt ar "Shaws almost Nationwide" (Ceatharlach agus Luimneach) agus deoch Coke in Burgerking.Bhíomar an soineanta agus cheap mé gurbh ionann trí shiopa agus Ionad Siopadóireachta. An Phoblacht's famous weekly satirical column. The week in quotes. Tar éis an toradh ráthúil a tháinig ar Chomhdháil Dhomhanda Athraithe Aeráide, chonacthas do chách ar fud na cruinne an cliseadh taidhleoireachta a bhí i ndán do na Stáit Aontaithe, cé go ndearna siad gach iarracht bac a chur ar aon socrú fiúntach ar an gceist ríthábhachtach seo don chine daonna. |
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