The key involvement and contribution by many Irish women in the revolutionary period is being reclaimed. Maeve Arbuckle profiles Cumann na mBan Commander Julia Morrissey Free article

Former Sinn Féin councillor Tom Hartley explains the long campaign to transform Belfast City Hall into an institution that reflects all strands of Belfast’s political history. Free article

In historical terms the death of Michael Gaughan marks a halfway point between our time and the end of the Civil War, the consolidation of Partition and of the two partitioned states. Like so many of his generation, Michael Gaughan was to live through the tragic legacy of Partition as it manifested itself in the outbreak of armed conflict in the North in 1969 and he was one of the many young people who once again stepped forward into the ranks of the Irish Republican Army. Free article

Retrieving James Connolly from the ‘mouldering records of the past’

“I continued to listen to their talk and there was mention continually of somebody named Connolly. Connolly says so and so. Connolly does not agree with that. Connolly’s point of view is this, and so on. Then when I had an opportunity, I asked who was this Connolly. ‘He is a very smart fellow,’ I was told”.

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