The politics of revolution
4 November 2026
This week 40 years ago Sinn Féin was beginning a new phase of its political development in the wake of the 1986 Ard Fheis which ended the party’s long-standing policy of abstentionism from Leinster House. Free article
New Lodge community marks 49th anniversary of British Army killings
8 February 2022
Relatives of six men killed by the British Army in 1973 on the New Lodge Road area of North Belfast gathered last Thursday 3 February to mark the 49th anniversary of the killings. Sinn Féin MLA Carál Ní Chuilin spoke at the commemoration. Free article
Early election must be called in absence of functioning Executive - Mary Lou McDonald TD
4 February 2022
Speaking following resignation by Paul Givan as First Minister, Mary Lou McDonald said that the decision is all about the DUP’s own narrow and self-serving political interests. Free article
'We will not be silenced' Bloody Sunday 50 years on
1 February 2022
Thousands of people turned out to mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday Walk of Remembrance that traced to route of the original march from the shops in Creggan to the Bloody Sunday monument on Rossville Street. Free article
Eyewitness in Derry 30th January 1972
30 January 2022
Within hours of the events of Bloody Sunday, the Civil Rights Association in Derry were recording first hand testimonies of what happened that day. Taken from the Massacre in Derry booklet we carry the accounts of each of the 14 Bloody Sunday killings. Free article
Have you forgotten Bloody Sunday?
29 January 2022
An Phoblacht has never stopped reporting and writing on Bloody Sunday over the last 50years. In this piece written 34 years ago Kevin McCool revisits some key moments of Blood Sunday. Free article
‘I’ll never forget his face’
29 January 2022
We republish an article from 1983, where Pat Deeney interviews Peggy Deery, one of the wounded who survived Bloody Sunday. Peggy died in 1988. Injuries received on Bloody Sunday seriously impacted on her health for the rest of her life. Free article
Thomas Kinsella’s ‘Butcher’s Dozen’ 50 years on
28 January 2022
Eminent Irish poet Thomas Kinsella died in December 2021, just before the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Widgery Tribunal and the poem he wrote and published swiftly in response. Free article
Bloody Sunday in the British media
28 January 2022
In the hours and days after Bloody Sunday the scale and intensity of disinformation spread about that day’s events by the British Government was unprecedented. Mícheál Mac Donnacha recounts some of the outcomes of this across the British media in 1972. Free article
Remembering Bloody Sunday: Robert Ballagh’s “The Thirtieth of January”
27 January 2022
Robert Ballagh’s new painting remembering Bloody Sunday is to hang in Derry’s Guild Hall. Jenny Farrell explores the link between art and politics in “The Thirtieth of January. Free article
‘There wasn’t the slightest provocation’ – Fulvio Grimaldi on Bloody Sunday
26 January 2022
“I took pictures of this, I took recordings of this, and there is no doubt whatsoever that there wasn’t the slightest provocation”. Italian photographer Fulvio Grimaldi’s firsthand account of Bloody Sunday. Free article
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