Sinn Fein MLA Gerry Kelly gave the main oration to a gathering of over 1,000 people in Scotstown, Co. Monaghan, to honour IRA Volunteer Séamus McElwain on the 40th anniversary of his death in a British SAS ambush. Free article

5 May 1981 was one of the most defining days in Irish history. It was the day that Bobby Sands, the 27-year-old Member of Parliament for Fermanagh/South Tyrone, died on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh as part of the republican prisoners’ campaign for the restoration of political status. Free article

24 April marks the 110th anniversary of the Easter Rising in Ireland, when Irish revolutionaries took on the might of the British empire and declared a national Republic.

The Proclamation of the Republic itself was a revolutionary document which asserted the sovereignty of Ireland, and the rights of all its people to freedom, equality and social justice.

Today the Proclamation’s... Free article

Easter 1976 marked the 60th anniversary of the 1916 Rising with the armed conflict ongoing in the Six Counties while in Dublin the Fine Gael/Labour Coalition government turned its back on both the North and on the heritage of Easter 1916 which it once claimed.

The 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising had seen extensive State commemorations but in 1976 there were none. Sinn Féin... Free article

The flag of the ship that carried out the daring rescue of six Fenians from Western Australia 150 years ago this week is to go on display in the National Museum - but only for a mere two days. Free article

‘A Nation for All - Solidarity, Democracy & Sovereignty’ by Caoilfhionn Ní Dhonnabháin. Published by Green Island Press. Free article

Gerry Adams remembers Terry 'Cruncher' O’Neill. He was ‘an incomparable singer of Irish songs of resistance’, and ‘a hard-working activist’ who was ‘a huge part of the growth of Sinn Féin in North Belfast following the Good Friday Agreement’. Free article

This weekend, Republicans will gather at various locations across the island of Ireland for this year’s Easter Commemorations. Here you can find details for all commemorations such as times, locations and main speakers. Free article

BELFAST BRIGADE

1st Battalion

Vol Tony Henderson, April 4th, 1971

Vol Terence McDermott, October 2nd, 1971

Vol Martin Forsythe, October 24th, 1971

Vol Tony Jordan, June 28th, 1972

Vol John Finucane, June 28th, 1972

Vol Francis Hall, August 30th, 1973

Vol Daniel Burke, April 9th, 1974

Vol Gerard Fennell, November 8th, 1974

Vol John Rooney, November 15th, 1974

Vol Seán McDermott, April 5th,... Free article

For many, the annual influx of politicians to Washington for St. Patrick’s Day celebration appears to be the pinnacle of engagement with the US.

All year-round Sinn Féin representatives travel across the US and Canada hosting delegations, speaking at commemoration events and organising discussions on Irish unity from San Francisco to Chicago to New York.

While Sinn Féin was not in... Free article