ROBBIE SMYTH reviews Maurice Coakley’s Ireland in the World Order and offers some tips for republican reading, light and heavy, in 2013 to maybe spend those Christmas book tokens on. Free article

THE DECADE of anniversaries is finally upon us – this being specifically the centenary of the Irish revolutionary period of 1913 to 1923. These years wrought enormous political and social change, not only in Ireland but also in the rest of Europe and the world at large. Free article

RACISM in sport used to be an issue most associated with soccer in England and mainland Europe. In recent weeks, though, racism has again hit the headlines here in Ireland. Free article

THE DEATH of Nick Furlong (1926-2012) in Wexford General Hospital on 1 November severs another direct link with the tragic and bitter IRA campaign of the 1940s in County Wexford. Free article

RITA McNALLY sadly passed away in the early hours of Sunday 18 November following a short illness. Her funeral, which was attended by hundreds of mourners, took place two days later from her home in Armagh to Clady Chapel, where she was buried in the family plot. Free article

TOM PILKINGTON, a lifelong Irish republican, passed away peacefully at Sligo General Hospital on 3 October 2012. He was 91. According to family members, Tom was a distant relation to General Liam ‘Billy’ Pilkington. Free article

SINN FÉIN PRESIDENT and Louth TD Gerry Adams expressed his “deep sense of sadness” at the death of former Sinn Féin Councillor Seán Kenna who died on Tuesday 11 December. Free article

JOE McKELVEY, one of the ‘Four Martyrs’ executed by the Free State Government on 8 December 1922, was remembered in his home town of Belfast on the 90th anniversary of his death. Free article

 LARGE CROWD gathered at the graveside of IRA Volunteer Eugene Devlin in Strabane Cemetery in County Tyrone on Thursday 27 December to mark the 40th anniversary of his death at the hands of the British Army.

Participants, led by the Strabane Memorial Flute Band, had paraded from the monument erected in Eugene’s memory in the nearby Drumrallagh Estate.  

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