The RTÉ two-part documentary on Daniel O’Connell presented by Olivia O’Leary has renewed debate on the legacy of this towering political figure who dominated the first half of the 19th century in Ireland. O’Leary’s presented the still prevailing establishment view of O’Connell as the great ‘constitutional nationalist’ promoting peace, in contrast to the ‘violent’ Republicans. And again alternative more informed views of O’Connell were ignored. Free article

Sinn Féin Finance Spokesperson Pearse Doherty writes about the need for workers across Ireland to get the pay rise they deserve. Free article

The rise of the Troops Out Movement, first published in An Phoblacht/Republican News, 19 August 1999 Free article

50 years ago today the nationalist community of Derry took to the streets to defend their community from an RUC supported loyalist assault. The resulting Battle of the Bogside was a catalyst for nationalists across the Six Counties to rise up and defend their civil and national rights. Free article

Mitchel McLaughlin, a Derry youth in 1969, who progressed on to be a Sinn Fein MLA, National Chairperson of the party, the first Sinn Fein Speaker of the Assembly and this year’s Le Chéile honoree recalled the events of August 1969 in his native city for An Phoblacht in 2009. Today we reprint Mitchel’s article. Free article

Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald gives her take on Fintan O'Toole's proposal to abandon abstentionism. Free article

Pearse Doherty writes on the economics of a united Ireland and tackles myths around the subvention. Free article

On Friday 26 July, republicans from across London gathered in the London Irish Centre, Camden, for the formal launch of the ‘Terence MacSwiney Commemoration Committee [London]’. Free article

Full speech by Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald in the MAC, Belfast, on talks to restore power-sharing, Brexit and Irish unity. Free article

Writing in his latest blog for An Phoblacht, Sinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney said fundamental change in British policy is required to end the political deadlock in the north. Free article