Crossmaglen Border Referendum Debate 1
15 May 2013
Crossmaglen Border Referendum Debate, 14 May 2013
Crossmaglen Border Referendum Debate 2
15 May 2013
Crossmaglen Border Referendum Debate, 14 May 2013
First annual James Connolly Summer School
13 May 2013
OVER 100 people attended the first annual James Connolly summer school in Ballybough, Dublin on Saturday for a day of lively debate and presentations from progressive voices in Irish left politics.
Bobby Sands remembered – Sunday 5 May
9 May 2013
THE 32nd anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands was marked in Belfast on Sunday 5 May as dozens of republicans held while-line pickets in his honour. Bobby Sands the revolutionary was invoked later on Sunday evening when senior republican Seán Murray delivered the annual Bobby Sands Memorial Lrcture in the Andersonstown Social Club.
2013 May Day demonstration in Dublin
2 May 2013
Hundreds of workers took part in the annual May Day demonstration in Dublin on Wednesday organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions. Trade unions, progressive political parties and groups working in the social sector gathered at Parnell Square and marched to Liberty Hall, the former headquarters of the Irish Citizen Army and current headquarters of the SIPTU trade union.
Sinn Féin 2013 Ard Fheis
26 April 2013
Over 2,000 delegates, elected representatives and visitors pack into the Royal Theatre in Castlebar for the 106th Sinn Féin Ard Fheis
Vigils in memory of victims of Westminster’s ‘dirty war’
19 April 2013
SINN FÉIN organised a series of white-line pickets and vigils across Belfast and at the GPO in Dublin to remember those targeted and killed in Britain’s ‘dirty war’ in Ireland. The pickets, a dignified response by republicans to the saturation media coverage of Margaret Thatcher's death, took place on the day the former Prime Minister of Britain was buried.
AOH 2013 annual trip to Ireland
11 April 2013
Members of the AOH and the Ladies AOH made their annual trip to Ireland this year from the United States in a show of solidarity with the Irish people. The solidarity that the orgnisation show however has a practical edge as both the AOH and Ladies AOH raise money in the United States that they donate to various groups who are still at the sharp edge of the fight for justice. Among those to benefit from the AOH/LAOH fund-raising efforts are Relatives for Justice, whose advocacy of the rights of people killed by British state forces and their surrogates is well-known. As well as RFJ, groups such as An Cumann Cabhrach, National Graves Association and ex-prisoners’ groups Coiste na nIarchim and Tar Anall also benefit from the sterling work of the US-based organisations. This year, two special presentations were made. The first was to the O'Neill/Allsopp Republican Flute band from the New Lodge area of Belfast. The AOH/LAOH recognised the work with young people being carried out by the band. Also recognised was Feargal Mac Ionnrachtaigh and the work he has done in writing a book mapping the development of the Irish language in the prisons, particularly Long Kesh, and the effect this had on the promotion of the language within the nationalist population. He hopes to travel to the United States to launch the book.
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