The politics of revolution
4 November 2026
This week 40 years ago Sinn Féin was beginning a new phase of its political development in the wake of the 1986 Ard Fheis which ended the party’s long-standing policy of abstentionism from Leinster House. Free article
Telling the real story of inequalities accessing third level education
12 September 2020
As CAO offers are considered by tens of thousands of students this weekend Sinn Féin TD Rose Conway Walsh writes on a recent party survey about accessing education Free article
There will be no celebration of partition by nationalists - Michelle O'Neill
10 September 2020
In this article, Sinn Féin Leas Uachtarán and Joint Head of Government in the North, Michelle O'Neill has said that nationalists will not be celebrating the anniversary of partition but instead working towards Irish unity. (Article first appeared in the Irish News) Free article
Execution of Paddy McGrath and Thomas Harte
6 September 2020
Eighty years ago on 6 September 1940 a Free State Army firing squad executed two IRA Volunteers a veteran of the 1916 Rising and his young comrade born in that year. Paddy McGrath and Thomas Harte had been tried by a military court under the Offences Against the State Act and met their deaths despite pleas for their lives to Fianna Fáil Taoiseach Eamon de Valera. Free article
Pearse Doherty: This is a big win but we are still waiting for full reform of the insurance industry
3 September 2020
Sinn Féin Finance Spokesperson Pearse Doherty's legislation tackling the unfair practices in the insurance industry became law in 2019. In this piece he writes about the need to further hold the insurance industry to account and ensure fairness for consumers everywhere. Free article
The myth of Saint Jack Lynch demolished
3 September 2020
Book Review by Mícheál Mac Donncha – ‘The Arms Crisis of 1970 – the Plot that Never Was’ by Michael Heney Free article
Decades of activism recalled
24 August 2020
Mícheál Mac Donncha reviews ‘From Lucifer to Lazarus – A Life on the Left’ by Mick O’Reilly. Free article
British government has acted in bad faith on legacy - Kelly
22 August 2020
Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly MLA criticises a new British law which he describes as discriminatory and divisive and excludes many victims of the conflict from getting the help they need. Free article
Sham sandwiches
16 August 2020
Cartoons and poetry are rare in An Phoblacht. This weekend we carry both courtesy of Galway Sinn Féin activist Jim Ward. Free article
'A day in the Castle - All Ireland Politics in Action' by Declan Kearney
13 August 2020
In his latest blog, Declan Kearney reflects on the importance of the first meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council in three years. Free article
Seán Russell and the IRA of the 1940s
13 August 2020
Eighty years ago on 14th August 1940 Seán Russell died on a German U-Boat and his body was committed to the sea. It was a journey that he began as a founder member of the Irish Volunteers and ended as IRA Chief of Staff attempting to return to Ireland from Germany. Free article
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