National Self-Determination - The Key International Struggle of our Times
11 April 2024
Writing for An Phoblacht, Sinn Féin national chairperson Declan Kearney said national determination is the key international struggle of our times. Free article
Centenary of the death of Cathal Brugha
5 July 2022
ONE of the first leaders of the Irish people to lose his life in the Civil War in 1922 was Cathal Brugha TD who for many years had been a key figure in the IRA, Sinn Féin and Conradh na Gaeilge. Free article
Tragic Cushendall executions remembered a century on
4 July 2022
Republicans in Antrim recently marked the centenaries of volunteers killed in Cushendall and Glenariffe. Sinn Féin MLA Pat Sheehan was the speaker and told those assembled that the executed volunteers and “all their comrades 100 years ago opposed the undemocratic, unjust, and sectarian partitioning of our country”. Free article
Protest against Bill of Shame at British Embassy
29 June 2022
Relatives of those killed in the bombings of Dublin, Monaghan and Castleblayney joined a protest against what has been dubbed the Bill of Shame at the British Embassy in Dublin on 28 June. Free article
Borrowed British guns
25 June 2022
The threat of renewed war made by the British government at the end of the Treaty negotiations was finally carried out on 28 June 1922 but it was the Provisional Government of the Free State that started the threatened war using borrowed British guns. Free article
Heroes of apartheid struggle
22 June 2022
Sinn Féin councillor Daithí Doolan attended the recent launch in Dublin’s Liberty Hall of International Brigade against Apartheid, a book edited by ANC legend Ronnie Kasrils who was present along with Karen Gearon and Mary Manning, two of the famous anti-apartheid Dunnes Stores strikers. Free article
The DUP and Tories are using a wrecking ball against the GFA
21 June 2022
Sinn Féin National Party Chairperson Declan Kearney has accused the Tories and the DUP of using a wrecking ball against the Good Friday Agreement and insists now is the time to begin preparations for constitutional change in Ireland. Free article
Bodenstown 1922
18 June 2022
This Sunday 19 June 2022 Irish Republicans gather at Wolfe Tone’s grave at Bodenstown as we we have done for many decades. Almost exactly 100 years ago on Tuesday 20 June 1922 Republicans were at Bodenstown just a few days before the Civil War began with the Free State bombardment of the Four Courts. Free article
Bodenstown – milestones on the journey to Tone’s Republic
17 June 2022
Following his death in British custody in the Provost Prison, Arbour Hill, Dublin, on 19 November 1798, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish revolutionary leader, was buried in the family grave in Bodenstown Churchyard, just outside the village of Sallins, County Kildare. Free article
Government can’t handle President telling them the truth – Mary Lou McDonald
16 June 2022
President Michael D Higgins was right to tell the truth and describe the housing crisis as a disaster. They were wise words from an honourable man who felt compelled to give voice to the hard realities faced by those desperately struggling to put an affordable roof over their heads and to those unable to do so. Free article
June 1922 - the Pact, the Election and British pressure for Civil War
13 June 2022
Since the narrow Dáil vote for the Treaty in January 1922 and the split in the IRA in March, there were ongoing efforts to prevent civil war and to find a basis for unity on both a political and military basis. Free article
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