A couple of weeks ago I walked with a friend from the car park at Cargin Chapel towards the graveyard to attend the 50^th anniversary commemoration for Volunteer Anne McCoy.

 We spoke about the 40 and 50 years’ anniversaries which are being marked at this time within the republican struggle. Fifty years no longer seems such a significant passage of time. We are all getting... Free article

For one hundred years now Irish Republicans have worn the Easter Lily emblem to mark the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising and to pay tribute to all those who died for Irish freedom in every phase of struggle. In 1926 it was the women of Cumann na mBan who initiated what was to become the enduring symbol of Irish Republicanism. Free article

The traditional left in Europe has been losing working-class voters. Yet the history of progressive politics suggests a different possibility - democratic nationalism, rooted in social justice, may once again become the foundation of a renewed European left. Free article

The decision by the United States, alongside Israel, to launch unprovoked military operations against Iran, is a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter and International Law.

Yet again, the actions of these governments have fundamentally damaged the multilateral system. This is the second time in nine months that the United States has begun a war in the midst of live... Free article

This article for International Women’s Day is based on a talk given in Brussels last week. Free article

The two most corrupt leaders in the history of their countries are leading an imperialist war in the Middle East that has unleashed carnage across the region and no-one knows how or where it will end. Free article

Between 1976 and 1981 the prisons in the Six Counties became front lines in the struggle for Irish freedom with an intensity and for a duration never seen before in Irish history. This stemmed from the attempt begun 50 years ago by the British government to brand Irish Republicans prisoners as criminals. Free article

Beidh daoine ann sna glúnta romhainn a thabharfaidh a mionn leat go raibh siad i láthair ag Ard Fheis stairiúil Chonradh na Gaeilge i mBéal Feirste 2026. An Ard Fheis, deirfimis, nuair a ceartaíodh botún mór a rinneadhi leasú bunreacht na heagraíochta thiar i 2008. Free article

Fianna Fáil Taoiseach Mícheál Martin has gone from delaying progress towards Irish Unity to actually becoming an obstacle to that objective which is enshrined in the Irish Constitution. And this is in the centenary year of Fianna Fáil, ‘the Republican Party’ which regards itself as the champion of the constitutional pursuit of national reunification. Free article

Gerard Shannon, author of the first ever biography of Rory O'Connor, speaks to An Phoblacht's Mícheál Mac Donncha. Best remembered for his execution by the Free State government with Liam Mellows, Joe McKelvey and Richard Barrett on 8 December 1922, Rory O'Connor was a key member of the IRA leadership from 1917 on, though mostly out of the public eye. Free article