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Basque band to play Derry's Sandino (Free article)
4 August 2005
This year's Derry Féile '05 will see a unique combination of traditional Irish and Basque music as the city pays host to Urgabe, the Basque Country's top selling indie/rock outfit. In a series of sessions in the city Urgabe will perform in both the Gweedore Bar and Sandino's Café Bar this Thursday with their unique blend of traditional Basque…
Éamonn an Chnoic (Free article)
4 August 2005
An Irish Jacobite highwayman of the late 16th and early 17th Century known as 'Ned of the Hill' not only was immortalised in song but also has quite a folk history.
Challenging the revisionists (Free article)
4 August 2005
This week Micheál Mac Donncha, editor of Sinn Féin - 100 years of struggle, spoke to An Phoblacht's Cathal Ó Murchú about this important new book
The future is ours (Free article)
4 August 2005
It is an unforgettable moment. I listened with comrades of 30 years standing, to the words that formally ended the IRA's armed struggle. I could hardly take in what I was hearing as I hurriedly wrote them down. My verbatim record reads: The leadership of Oglaigh na hÉireann has formally ordered an end to the armed campaign... All IRA units…
Remembering the Past: Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (Free article)
4 August 2005
As the 90th anniversary of the death and funeral of O'Donovan Rossa approaches, An Phoblacht's Shane Mac Thomáis looks back at the life of this remarkable Fenian.
Jackeens, Wassies, Sheepstealers and more (Free article)
4 August 2005
I have been struck from an early age at the difference between the official nicknames given to county teams and the more usual expressions applied by fans. Dublin are still referred to in programmes as the 'Metropoli-tans', which has a decidedly Batmanesque ring to it. In actual fact it refers to the original hurling club established in the city…
Fifth Column (Free article)
4 August 2005
THE IRA's ground-breaking declaration last week saw a host of DUP leaders clamouring to get on the telly to pour scorn on the initiative. Ian Paisley Snr, Ian Paisley Jnr, Peter Robinson, Gregory Campbell and even Nelson McCausland were all on the box to hold forth on the IRA. In a pretence of balance, the DUP heads tut-tutted about the unionists'…
News in Brief 1 (Free article)
11 August 2005
Sinn Féin Banbridge Councillor Dessie Ward escaped serious injury after a unionist petrol bomber tried to torch his Scarva Road home on Monday 8 August Ward said that the attack will not stop him from representing the people who elected him to Banbridge Council.
GM food fears highlighted again (Free article)
11 August 2005
Do you read the contents of the tin of sweet corn you are adding to your salad or sandwich? What is in that soy milk you are drinking? Or on that American-produced salad dressing? Well, those are questions we should all be asking ourselves since the European Union decided earlier this year to lift import bans on Genetically Modified Organisms…
Neodracht i mbaol! (Free article)
11 August 2005
The native Irish ruling class has always displayed a tendency towards imperialism and regarded their own people as cannon fodder to this end. It is in this context that Irish neutrality is constantly under threat from the same quarretrs today and very fits into what was observed by James Connolly.
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