One hundred years ago this week the British regime carried out further executions of Irish Republican prisoners in Dublin and Cork. As the war intensified under martial law more and more prisoners were being tried by British military courts which handed down death sentences. Free article

Book review: ‘The Irish Munitions Embargo of 1920’ by Peter Rigney, Umiskin Press, Dublin. Free article

Joe Dwyer from Sinn Féin’s London Office reports on the launch of the new Labour for Irish Unity group. Free article

Pléann an Comhairleoir Cristóir Mac Cafraidh leis an dul chun cinn atá déanta ag comhairlí airid ó thuaidh ó thaobh na Gaeilge. Free article

Peadar Whelan reports on how Sinn Féin representatives and community activists prevented a serious escalation of street protests in recent weeks and examines the misleading claims about deprivation in the North. Free article

In his latest blog, on the 23rd anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Declan Kearney reflects on the need for full implementation. Free article

Opinion from Ciarán Quinn on the Good Friday Agreement and the current political situation in the north. Free article

On Thursday, 9 April 1981, Bobby Sands was elected MP for the constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone. Sands polled 30,492 votes against unionist candidate Harry West’s 29,046. There were only 3,280 spoilt, highlighting the failure of the SDLP’s and Austin Currie’s attempts to sabotage the campaign. Free article

DANNY MORRISON was editor of An Phoblacht/Republican News and Sinn Féin Director of Publicity in 1981 and was a key contact between the protesting prisoners in the H-Blocks and the Republican Movement outside the jail. A former republican POW himself, Morrison was elected as a Sinn Féin member of a Six County Assembly in 1982. He became a full time writer in the 1990s. He is secretary of the Bobby Sands Trust. This article first appeared in the Andersonstown News on the 20th anniversary of the election of Bobby Sands. Free article

Sinn Féin Justice and Policing spokesperson Gerry Kelly believes “the disturbances in loyalist areas across the north are an out-working of the DUP’s rhetoric and undermining of the PSNI and criminal justice system” Free article