No one said changing society is easy

» BY PEADAR WHELAN

» BY PEADAR WHELAN

IN HIS REVIEW in last month’s ‘An Phoblacht’ of Ronnie Kasrils’s recently released tribute to his late wife, Eleanor, ‘The Unlikely Secret Agent’, Sinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney wrote: “Eleanor forsook a life of privilege for a life of struggle.”
The same can also be said about Ronnie... Free article

A SPONSORED WALK is taking place in August to raise funds for a memorial to all deceased republicans to be erected at The Heath in County Laois, where local republican Jim Hyland lost his life.
The walk is organised by the Republican Memorial Committee formed by Laois/Offaly Sinn Féin and is supported by newly-elected TD Brian Stanley.
The walk starts in the Slieve Blooms on... Free article

TWO DOCUMENTARIES on the life of James Connolly were produced last year. One of them, the most substantive, was a documentary by Brian O’Flaherty, ‘James Connolly - A Working Class Hero’, currently available on DVD. The second was part of a series on prominent people in Irish history and presented by Joe Duffy. While both films had merits they shared one glaring omission - they... Free article

HERE IS an old adage which states that if you can’t be good, be lucky. The Dublin footballers are certainly living proof of that these days.
Probably most referees would not have awarded Bernard Brogan a free in the dying seconds of the Kildare game. And the first goal against Wexford might have been scripted by Harold Lloyd.
Mind you, any attempt thereby to detract from Dublin’s... Free article

Bobby’s story wins Italian award

SILVIA CALAMATI, Laurence McKeown and Denis O’Hearn recently received the Alessandro Tassoni Award in Modena, Italy, for their book, ‘Il Diario di Bobby Sands. Storia di un Ragazzo Irlandese’/’The Diary of Bobby Sands: The Story of an Irish Young Man’ (Rome, Castelvecchi Editore, 2010). Silvia Calamati was also given a cheque for €1,000 which... Free article

HERE are the events that the National Hunger Strike Commemoration Committee knows of to mark the 30th anniversary of the heroic 1980/1981 Hunger Strikes.
Updates can be got from Maureen or Deirdre at the National Hunger Strike Commemoration Committee at 028 9034 7350 or [email protected] or local Sinn Féin contacts in your area.
The ‘An Phoblacht’ website will also... Free article

A committed and dedicated republican and socialist

LIFELONG socialist and Irish republican activist Val Cardwell died on Tuesday 14th June in Britain.
She was very well known by an entire generation of those in Britain supporting Ireland’s struggle for independence and freedom. This was inevitable, given that she was once married to Gerry Mac Lochlainn, who was Sinn Féin’s... Free article

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Brian Keenan Annual Mountain Challenge

This year’s challenge takes place at 11am Saturday 27th August. Starting at the Flagstaff, outside Newry, and finishing in Carlingford. Followed by food, ceol agus craic. Sponsorship: £100/€100 per person. For details: Jane (+ 353) 87 141 2768.

DUBLIN

Assemble 2.30pm Saturday 16th July, Northern Cross (beside Hilton Hotel, Malahide... Free article

I nDíl Chuimhne

1 July 1980: Volunteer Terence O’NEILL, 2nd Battalion, Belfast Brigade
2 July 1974: Volunteer Patrick TEER, Long Kesh
3 July 1972: Volunteer Denis QUINN, Tyrone Brigade
6 July 1976: Volunteer Thomas KANE, 1st Battalion, Belfast Brigade
7 July 1990: Volunteer Seán BATESON, Long Kesh
7 July 1988: Volunteer Séamus WOODS, Tyrone Brigade
8 July 1970: Volunteer Tommy... Free article

SPEAKING from Jerusalem during a four-day visit in advance of Palestine submitting the question of Palestinian statehood to the United Nations, Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún, part of a delegation of MEPs from the European United Left/Nordic Green Left group in the European Parliament, said:

Our conference and visit to Jerusalem and the West Bank comes at a very opportune... Free article