No matter how much its opponents wish it to go away the political momentum towards Irish Unity is not stalling. It crosses party lines and even within parties its impact is highly significant. Free article

The opening words which Bobby Sands wrote on the first day of his hunger strike in 1981 have been echoing in my mind during recent weeks…’I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world’. 

A palpable uncertainty and instability has engulfed global affairs.

The words and actions of the US President signal the onset of a new, dangerous world order which is hostile to... Free article

Book review - ‘Robert Barton – A Remarkable Revolutionary’ by Chris Lawlor. Published by History Press Free article

First published in An Phoblacht/Republican News, Thursday, 23 February 1995 - Over the years, many hunger strikes embarked on by republican POWs have ended in the deaths of some of the participants. The fast which began in Mountjoy Jail in February 1940 was no exception. Free article

The death occurred on Friday 21 February of Brendan McFarlane, who was a Republican leader inside and outside the prisons, known and respected by generations of activists across Ireland and beyond. ‘Bik’ was an inspirational and well-loved comrade and his passing will be widely mourned. Free article

First published in 'An Phoblacht/Republican News', 9 February 1995, The IRA’s 1974 Christmas ceasefire, called following talks earlier in December between republican leaders and a number of Protestant clergymen, led to one of the longest and most controversial Truces during the IRA’s campaign. Free article

Last Friday, in the Hague, Netherlands, a ground-breaking event took place with the formation of ‘The Hague Group’ by nine key states from the global south, including Namibia, Honduras, Chile, Colombia, Belize, Bolivia, Malaysia, Senegal, Cuba, and led by South Africa as an inter-governmental bloc to support the positions adopted by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and... Free article

The weekend of 18 and 19 January saw Irish republicans from Sligo, Fermanagh, Leitrim, Roscommon, Cavan and further afield mark the 50th Anniversary of the death of IRA Volunteer Kevin Coen through commemoration and reflection.

A native of Rusheen, near Riverstown Co Sligo, Kevin was a Volunteer with the IRA's South Fermanagh Brigade.

He joined the ranks of the Defense Forces in the... Free article

Gerry Adams penned a poignant tribute to his friend and comrade Ted Howell which was published in the 'Irish News' this week. Free article

An article by Sinn Féin’s Matt Carthy published in the 'Irish Times' this week where he made the case for the immediate implementation of the Occupied Territories Bill. Free article