“It is 37 years later and Paddy has finally come across the threshold of Leinster House.” This was the greeting of Sinn Féin president Mary Lou MacDonald TD to former H-Block POW Paddy Agnew. Free article

The hunger strike demonstrated the power of the individual, acting within a collective movement to uphold the integrity of political struggle Free article

Daichead bliain ó shin bhí Gluaiseacht na Poblachta ag teacht i dtaithí ar straitéis ‘An Chogaidh Fhada’. Bhí rialtas na Breataine faoi cheannasaíocht James Callaghan agus Roy Mason ag leanstean go fíochmhar le polasaí an choirpeachais agus ní raibh a fhios ag duine ar bith againn cad é an deireadh a bheadh air. Bhí an láthair streachailte is fíochmhara ar fad sna Blocanna H agus i gCarcair Ard Mhacha, áit a raibh cimí lomnocht ag troid in éadan Mason agus a leithéid a bhí ag maíomh go raibh siad ag brú Óglaigh na hÉireann mar a bheadh taos fiacla i bhfeadán iontu. Free article

The Sinn Féin delegation in the European Parliament is led by Martina Anderson together with Matt Carthy, Liadh Ní Riada and Lynn Boylan. Sinn Féin MEPs sit with the GUE/NGL group in the European Parliament. It is made up of 52 MEPs from across Europe. Free article

The ‘Postcards from the New Republic’ series is a hat tip to British designer, artist, entrepreneur and Socialist William Morris’s News from Nowhere series of articles from 1890 published in the Commonweal, the newspaper of the Socialist League and set in a distant future where Morris’s socialist, and romantic, utopia has been secured. Our story’s protagonists are Willa Ní Chuairteoir and Lucy Byrne accompanied by their four children James, Afric, Banba and Alroy who together enjoy and endure the equity and exigency of the future’s New Republic. Free article