Pro-independence parties say Catalan regional election results give them mandate to declare independence from Spain Free article

Eight IRA Volunteers and a civilian were wiped out in an unremitting onslaught in an SAS ambush operation Free article

Thomas Ashe was rearrested for sedition and incitement of the population on 15 July 1917 and sent to Mountjoy Jail. He demanded that he be given Prisoner of War status, including the right to wear his own clothes and associate with his fellow inmates Free article

Two years after the epic 1981 H-Block Hunger Strike in which ten young republicans died, there was another epic event at Long Kesh that dealt a huge blow to the Thatcher regime in Ireland. This was the escape of 38 IRA prisoners from H-Block 7 on Sunday 25 September 1983. Free article

Series by Mícheál Mac Donncha chronicling the road to the 1916 Rising as seen through the pages of An tÓglach – The Irish Volunteer from 24 April 1915 to 22 April 1916 Free article

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33rd anniversary of the death of Volunteer Charlie McGlade held in Drimnagh Free article

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PLAINS is a small, quiet village in north Lanarkshire, close to the larger centres of Airdrie and Coatbridge.

The west of Scotland is marked by sectarian geography not unlike the segregation seen in the North of Ireland – Plains is regarded as a Catholic village, as is the town of Coatbridge, while Airdrie is seen as strongly loyalist, with the suburb of Clarkston, the... Free article

The real test of credibility on the 1916 Rising is how parties live up to the Proclamation of the Republic today Free article