The French Revolution is the key event in the history of republicanism Free article

THE death of IRA Volunteer Martin Hurson on 13 July 1981, after 46 days on the Hunger Strike, was unexpected. The suddenness of his death, coming only five days after that of Joe McDonnell, came as a shock since two other Hunger Strikers – Kieran Doherty and Kevin Lynch – had been almost a week on hunger strike ahead of Martin. Free article

A bonfire off the Castlereagh Road in east Belfast featured a black coffin with an image of the late Martin McGuinness Free article

Burning flags, posters and effigies should not be part of Twelfth celebrations, says north Belfast lawyer John Finucane Free article

Will unionist leaders speak out against bonfires built on race hate? Free article

Report co-author and Oxfam leader to speak at event hosted by Sinn Féin MEP Matt Carthy and GUE/NGL European Parliament Group Free article

IRA Volunteer and Hunger Striker Joe McDonnell, from Lenadoon in west Belfast, passed away at 5:15am on Wednesday 8 July 1981 after 61 agonising days on the Hunger Strike. His wife Goretti had maintained an almost constant vigil by his side but, with a callous act of disregard for her feelings when he died, the RUC called her in, ostensibly to identify the body. Free article

The DUP can only again go into government when it accepts the core principles of the Good Friday Agreement and the primacy of a rights-based, inclusive and anti-sectarian society in the North Free article

Anti-sectarian group Nil by Mouth asked that, if the Orange Order is a religious and cultural organisation, ‘What would be the relevance of a Beach Boys song?’ Free article

Gary Haggarty will have a charge sheet with 500 offences on it – as an insight into what RUC Special Branch were prepared to tolerate from a loyalist agent, it beggars belief Free article