Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language by Darach Ó Séaghdha (2018, published by Head of Zeus Ltd) Free article

Brexit is not the first time that Ireland has been at the heart of a political and constitutional crisis in Britain. On and off from 1886 until 1922 the 'Irish Question' was high on the agenda of British politics and caused deep divisions within and between parties. The question made and broke governments.  Free article

Republicans gathered in Derry City cemetery today to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of local IRA Volunteer Daniel ‘Dan’ McGandy who is believed to have been the first Derry republican to die on active service during the Tan War which began in January 1919. Free article

Opinion piece on Brexit, the need for Irish interests to be protected and Irish unity by Sinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill MLA in today's Irish News. Free article

More than 100 republicans gathered in Derry last night to demand the release of imprisoned Kurdish political leader Abdullah Ocalan and Kurdish MP Leyla Guven, who is currently on hunger strike in a Turkish prison. Free article

Hundreds of people gathered in the Mansion House in Dublin today to mark the 100th anniversary of the establishment on An Chead Dáil. Free article

Young republicans demonstrated in Dublin today in solidarity who Kurdish MP Leyla Guven who is currently on hunger strike in a Turkish Prison. Free article

In this article, Sinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney reflects on his recent visit to Palestine alongside Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald and calls on the international community to support the people of Palestine. Free article

One morning in November I got a phone call and it was the unmistakeable deep booming voice of Jer O'Leary singing: "On the 28th day of November just outside the town of Macroom..." - lines of course from 'The Boys of Kilmichael' by way of an invitation to his annual outing to commemorate IRA leader Tom Barry's successful ambush of British forces in Jer's ancestral West Cork in 1920. Free article

A commemoration event will be held in Toome tomorrow night to mark the 50th anniversary of the 'Long March' civil rights march between Belfast and Derry. Free article