Thousands march in Dublin to protest Government housing failures
18 May 2019
Thousands of people from right across Ireland gathered in Dublin today to protest against the Government’s failed housing policy and to demand a change in direction.
The ‘Raise the Roof’ rally assembled at Parnell Square at 1pm, and made its way around the quays, past the Department of Housing before finishing at O’Connell Street beside the GPO.
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The rising tide of Irish in the 21st century
1 February 2019
Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language by Darach Ó Séaghdha (2018, published by Head of Zeus Ltd) Free article
Ireland at heart of crisis
30 January 2019
Brexit is not the first time that Ireland has been at the heart of a political and constitutional crisis in Britain. On and off from 1886 until 1922 the 'Irish Question' was high on the agenda of British politics and caused deep divisions within and between parties. The question made and broke governments. Free article
New Michelle Gildernew constituency office opened in Clogher
28 January 2019
Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald officially opened the new constituency office of Michelle Gildernew MP in Clogher, county Tyrone today. Free article
100 years on: Remembering Dan McGandy in Derry
20 January 2019
Republicans gathered in Derry City cemetery today to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of local IRA Volunteer Daniel ‘Dan’ McGandy who is believed to have been the first Derry republican to die on active service during the Tan War which began in January 1919. Free article
Sinn Féin’s priority is the protection of Irish national interests - Michelle O'Neill
19 January 2019
Opinion piece on Brexit, the need for Irish interests to be protected and Irish unity by Sinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill MLA in today's Irish News. Free article
Rally calls for release of Abdullah Ocalan and Leyla Guven
19 January 2019
More than 100 republicans gathered in Derry last night to demand the release of imprisoned Kurdish political leader Abdullah Ocalan and Kurdish MP Leyla Guven, who is currently on hunger strike in a Turkish prison. Free article
Hundreds mark centenary of First Dáil
12 January 2019
Hundreds of people gathered in the Mansion House in Dublin today to mark the 100th anniversary of the establishment on An Chead Dáil. Free article
Protests call for the release of Leyla Guven
12 January 2019
Young republicans demonstrated in Dublin today in solidarity who Kurdish MP Leyla Guven who is currently on hunger strike in a Turkish Prison. Free article
The Palestinian people are not violent people, they are angry people - Declan Kearney
10 January 2019
In this article, Sinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney reflects on his recent visit to Palestine alongside Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald and calls on the international community to support the people of Palestine. Free article
Jer O’Leary
5 January 2019
One morning in November I got a phone call and it was the unmistakeable deep booming voice of Jer O'Leary singing: "On the 28th day of November just outside the town of Macroom..." - lines of course from 'The Boys of Kilmichael' by way of an invitation to his annual outing to commemorate IRA leader Tom Barry's successful ambush of British forces in Jer's ancestral West Cork in 1920. Free article
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AN PHOBLACHT MAGAZINE:
- Don't miss your chance to get the second edition of the 2019 magazine, published to coincide with Easter Week
- This special edition which focuses on Irish Unity, features articles by Pearse Doherty, Dr Thomas Paul and Martina Anderson.
- Pearse sets out the argument for an United Ireland Economy whilst Pat Sheehan makes the case for a universally free all-island health service.
- Other articles include, ‘Ceist teanga in Éirinn Aontaithe’, ‘Getting to a new Ireland’ and ‘Ireland 1918-22: The people’s revolution’.
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