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

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

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

“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

It is always with some trepidation that I pick up a book written by someone I know. The first question that springs to mind is, “Is it any good”. Secondly, “Will it reveal something new about my friend that I didn’t know”, or maybe worse, “something that I didn’t want to know”. Free article

This week An Phoblacht marks the 50th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday murders in Derry by the British Army's Parachute Regiment. We carry here Derry republican Mitchel McLaughlin's powerful article on the long road to justice. This article is also available in print in our quarterly magazine (An Phoblacht, Issue Number 4, 2021). Free article

The latest Northern Ireland Ombudsman report has found that British state forces were working with loyalist murder gangs that killed 19 people, across counties Antrim, Derry, Tyrone and Donegal between 1989 and 1993 Free article

Fifty years ago on 17 January 1972 seven Republican internees escaped from the British prison ship, HMS ‘Maidstone’, moored at the coal wharf in Belfast docks, and swam to freedom. They achieved fame in news headlines across the world as ‘The Magnificent Seven’. Free article

Speaking ahead of a vigil outside Leinster House in memory of Ashling Murphy, Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald said: in memory of Ashling Murphy, Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald TD said: “Violence against women and girls, and the fear of it, is far too common and blights the lives of women and girls across the country” Free article

Declan Kearney writes on the need to incorporate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) into law. Free article