ON 5 MARCH 1867, the ill-fated Rising by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, popularly known as the Fenians, consisted of sporadic and short-lived confrontations with British forces in a few locations across Ireland. But this was by no means the end of the IRB and the continuing influence of Fenianism was profound. Free article

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AS WE REEL from one apparently insoluble crisis to another, it is clear that our society and its political system are completely dysfunctional and unable to meet the needs of the Irish people. Free article

YOU CAN’T get away from him. He’s the elephant in the room – or the bull in the china shop. Free article

NEWRY & ARMAGH Sinn Féin members were stunned by the death of local party activist Tim Woods, who was killed in a road accident on the outskirts of Keady on 28 January during the Assembly election campaign. Free article

RAY became engaged in the republican struggle at the height of the civil rights movement in the Six Counties when persecution of nationalist communities culminated in atrocities such as the murder of civilians on Bloody Sunday in Derry. Free article

THE Clonmult Martyrs Sinn Féin Cumann in east Cork has paid tribute to Bartholomew ‘Batty’ O’Brien, of Michael Collins Square, Midleton, and formerly of Ballinacurra, who passed away peacefully at his home on 9 December 2016. Free article