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Memories of Kathleen Largey: Singer, republican and comrade (Free article)
5 February 2009
WHEN Miriam Makeba, the legendary South African singer, died in November last year, the world lost a great singer. The South African nation's collective heart missed a beat as the woman, known as 'Mama Afrika', passed away. Stilled was the voice that gave expression to the South African people's struggle for freedom over four decades.
Families of British Army and UDA victims meet Martin (Free article)
5 February 2009
SINN FÉIN West Belfast MP and President Gerry Adams along with MLAs Jennifer McCann and Francie Molloy MLA have met with the Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin. In the course of two separate meetings in Belfast on Thursday, 29 January Martin was introduced to the family of Damien Walsh a 17-year-youth killed by the UDA in March 1993 and…
Brian Cowen's quack medicine (Free article)
5 February 2009
QUACK medicine was dispensed by bogus doctors in the Wild West to gullible patients in the belief that the more bitter the taste the better the cure. This week Taoiseach Brian Cowen has dispensed the quack medicine of massive cuts in public services and punitive levies on workers.
MALA POIST (Free article)
5 February 2009
Cuireann An Phoblacht fáilte roimh litreacha ónár léitheoirí. Scríobh i nGaeilge nó i mBéarla, 200 focal ar a méid. Déantar giorrú ar litreachta más gá. Cuir do litir chuig [email protected] An Phoblacht welcomes readers' letters. Write in Irish or English, 200 words maximum. Letters may be edited for brevity. Send your letters to…
I nDíl Chuimhne (Free article)
5 February 2009
Notices Deadline The deadline for notices is 5pm on Monday before publication. In order to be included notices must be received by email, post, or fax at our Dublin office only before the deadline. Write to: 58 Parnell Square, Dublin 1. E-mail: [email protected]. Fax: (00 353 1) 8733074
Imeachtaí / Events (Free article)
5 February 2009
There is a charge of €10/£7 for inserts printed in our Imeachtaí column (carried in our print edition and on our website, www.anphoblacht.com). There is no charge for I nDíl Chuimhne, Comhbhrón etc. The deadline for notices is 5pm on Monday before publication. In order to be included notices must be received by email, post, phone or fax at…
The Mary Nelis Column (Free article)
5 February 2009
IN 1915, Pádraig Pearse, in a pamphlet entitled The Murder Machine, described the British system of education in Ireland as grotesque and a violation of human rights. He concluded that it reduced children and people to "mere things". In the Assembly on Monday, Education Minister Caitríona Ruane announced her intention to abolish the 'educational…
50 years of the Cuban Revolution (Free article)
5 February 2009
2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. Half a century is really a short time in history but for the Cuban people this time has been an intensive period of changes that have transformed our nation. From the status of a neo-colonial and undeveloped state, the social changes carried out by the revolutionary government during these…
Interview: Le Chéile International honourees: Rosie and Eddie Caughey (Free article)
5 February 2009
ROSIE AND EDDIE CAUGHEY are the International honourees for this year's Le Chéile event. It was a team effort as the couple, along with their eight children, played a vital part in the republican struggle in the very hostile atmosphere of England right throughout the 1970s and since. Although Eddie was the public face of the family's political…
Morale high as party organisers plan ahead (Free article)
5 February 2009
JUST one year on from its inception Sinn Féin's Organisational Development Unit (ODU) had its first Anuual General Meeting. From the length and breath of the 26 counties Organisers gathered in Dublin on Saturday, 17 January for a daylong conference to assess the work of the previous year and to lay out the strategy for Sinn Féin in the 26 counties…
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