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The 94 Cessation – how it happened (Free article)
30 August 2019
The IRA cessation is 25 years old this week. August 1994 was an intense month. I was involved, along with Martin McGuinness, and others in the Sinn Féin leadership, in intense, mostly private, efforts to persuade the SDLP Leader John Hume, the Irish Government and allies in Irish America to establish an alternative unarmed strategy to pursue…
The Fermoy ambush and British reprisals (Free article)
3 September 2019
BY the autumn of 1919, the Irish people and British forces in Ireland were set on a path of armed conflict that was about to escalate significantly.
Calls for Markievicz Cottage in the Dublin Mountains to be preserved and restored (Free article)
30 August 2019
After decades of neglect the Summer cottage of Countess Markievicz in the Dublin Mountains, which was used as a base to train Na Fianna Éireann, has been allowed to fail into ruin. Markievicz was a 1916 leader, the first woman elected to Westminster and the Dáil, and our first Minister for Labour. Many of those who took part or died in the 1916…
The IRA cessation – perspectives, 25 years on (Free article)
31 August 2019
As time passes historical perspectives lengthen and the broad political landscape we have traversed comes into view. In 2019 we have perspectives of twenty-five years since the first IRA cessation and the start of the Peace Process, fifty years since the armed conflict began in 1969 and one hundred years since the establishment of the First Dáil…
110 years of youth in struggle; anniversary of the founding of Na Fianna Éireann (Free article)
30 August 2019
This month marks the 110th anniversary of the founding of Na Fianna Éireann; a significant moment in the development of the Republican Movement and the struggle for Irish freedom. On 16th August 1909, around one hundred boys attended a meeting at 34 Lower Camden Street in Dublin, organised by a Committee including Constance Markievicz and Bulmer…
Mary Lou McDonald: 'There is more work needed to achieve a reconciled and peaceful Ireland' (Free article)
1 September 2019
First published on Independent.ie on 31 August 2019.
McDonald warns Taoiseach: “Custom checks on our Island are unacceptable” (Free article)
6 September 2019
Sinn Féin Leader Mary Lou McDonald has said any hardening of the border, or custom checks on the island of Ireland are completely unacceptable, and Taoiseach Varadkar must ensure that all options, including support for the Good Friday Agreement provision for a referendum on Irish reunification are on the table. Taoiseach Varadkar addressed the…
6th September 1994 – An historic day, an historic meeting (Free article)
6 September 2019
Twenty-five years ago today, an historic first meeting between Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams, Taoiseach Albert Reynolds, and SDLP Leader John Hume took place in Government Buildings, Dublin.
British Government bans Dáil Éireann (Free article)
7 September 2019
FOLLOWING the Declaration of Independence of the Irish Republic and the establishment of Dáil Éireann in January 1919, the Irish people had a functioning government but one which was increasingly subject to British repression. Many TDs were in jail or on the run yet the Dáil set up a number of departments, sent diplomatic missions abroad and began…
“It’s time for Fianna Fáil to stop abstaining from the North” – McDonald (Free article)
11 September 2019
Sinn Féin Leader Mary Lou McDonald has hit out strongly at Fianna Fáil for their ongoing policy of abstaining from political life in the North of Ireland, and has urged them to stop hurling from the ditch as the likelihood of a no-deal Brexit continues to grow. The comments come as the Sinn Féin President addressed the party’s annual away day…
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