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The Irish Flag (Free article)
9 April 2009
The following article by James Connolly appeared in his weekly paper Workers' Republic on 8 April 1916. It was his last major political article before the Rising and reaffirmed his lifelong teaching that the cause of national freedom and social justice are inextricably linked.
Ógra salute Fianna in Easter message (Free article)
9 April 2009
IN its Easter message, Ógra Shinn Féin sends greetings to imprisoned republicans, their families and the families of Ireland's patriot dead. The republican youth organisation also pledges ongoing support for the oppressed people of Palestine.
'1916 and all that' (Free article)
9 April 2009
Leirmheas LeAbhair 50 Things you didn't know about 1916 By Mick O'Farrell Foilisithe ag Mercier Press Price €7.99 LE AENGUS Ó SNODAIGH
Collectors' prints (Free article)
9 April 2009
IN the run-up to the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, Sinn Féin has commissioned world-famous artist Robert Ballagh to create a series of prints representing each of the seven signatories to The Proclamation of the Republic. The series is limited to 350 copies and as such will make important collectors' items both for their historic…
More than a game BY MATT TREACY (Free article)
9 April 2009
IT IS changed times indeed when Dublin supporters are disappointed that a match with Clare ended in a draw! Clare have been one of the teams (along with Tipperary) who have given Dublin awful tonkings in the league and championship any time they have met in recent memory but those days seem to have passed, for the time being at least. Dublin…
Republicanising human resources (Free article)
9 April 2009
AN important seminar for Sinn Féin line-managers and heads of departments took place in County Meath last week to address the best effective use of the party's personnel resources. Central to this strategy is marrying Sinn Féin's voluntary ethos and broad activist membership with the reality and necessity of having a significant number of…
Battle of the Bogside to be remembered 40 years on (Free article)
9 April 2009
SPEAKING this week at the launch of a badge to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Battle of the Bogside, Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson said: "The Battle of the Bogside and the events of August 1969 changed not only the political landscape of Derry but the entire island of Ireland. It was an extraordinary time when ordinary men, women…
New book marks centenary of Fianna Éireann (Free article)
9 April 2009
A NEW BOOK on the history of Na Fianna Éireann, Na Fianna Éireann and the Irish Revolution, 1909 to 1923, has just been published by Damian Lawlor to mark the 100th anniversary of what used to be the republican youth movement.
Ex-POWs gather in tribute to a firm friend from Philadelphia (Free article)
9 April 2009
ON Saturday afternoon, 28 March, republicans from across Ireland gathered to pay their final respects to Mike Duffy from Philadelphia as his ashes were scattered on Carrigart shore, County Donegal, his father's homeplace. Mike's ashes were brought from Philadelphia by his friend and comrade, Connie McCrea, and scattered by former POW Geraldine…
Volunteer Gerard Casey remembered in Rasharkin (Free article)
9 April 2009
GERALDINE Casey was just a baby when on an April night in 1989 loyalist gunmen burst into the family home at Shamrock Park near Rasharkin and shot her father dead in front of her and her mother Una while the other children slept in the next room. On Sunday 5 April Geraldine held a portrait of her father as she attended a 20th anniversary…
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