The first week of June 1921 saw the last of the 24 prison executions of IRA prisoners by the British regime during the Tan war, which had begun with Kevin Barry on 1 November.

As the number of trials by British military courts increased in the first half of 1921 so also did the number of death sentences. On 4 and 7 June the last three executions were carried out, just a month... Free article

Writing in his latest blog, Declan Kearney write that this could be a last throw of the dice for the DUP to start making the right decisions about power sharing and ensuring the northern state exists as a warm place for everyone. Free article

Peadar Whelan looks at the DUP divisions exposed in recent weeks Free article

19th century Fenians Michael Barrett and Patrick O’Donnell remembered in London commemoration. Free article

Donegal Sinn Féin has begun a series of conversations on the theme of Irish Unity. The first conversation was with State Representative Kevin Boyle from Pennsylvania. Free article

May 25th marked the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Sinn Féin councillor Eddie Fullerton. Roy Greenslade catalogues the Fullerton family’s ongoing campaign for justice. Free article

The burning of the Custom House in Dublin on 25 May 1921 was one of the largest operations ever carried out by the IRA. It struck at the centre of British administration in Ireland as the building housed nine separate government departments including tax and local government records. The operation fully achieved its objective, though at a heavy cost to the IRA, and its consequences are still debated today. Free article

100 years ago this week the election to the new ‘Northern Ireland’ Parliament marked the beginning of the Orange state Free article

Thursday, 21 May 1981, witnessed the deaths of two more Hunger Strikers. Raymond McCreesh passed away at 2.30am. Later that evening Patsy O’Hara died. Free article

Declan Kearney's latest blog looks at the ongoing situation in Palestine and the ongoing attacks against people in Gaza. Free article