Justice for the Forgotten, which represents the bereaved and the survivors of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings of May 1974 and other fatal attacks in the period, has disputed the claim in the Operation Denton report that the UVF was capable on its own of carrying out the three co-ordinated Dublin car-bomb attacks which killed 27 people. Free article

As the year 1925 drew to a close there was anticipation in Ireland about the imminent outcome of the Boundary Commission established under the Treaty. Free article

THOMAS DAVIS was one of the most significant Irish nationalists of the 19th century. His writings helped to shape Irish nationalism itself and they exercised a key influence on the cultural and political revival of the early 20th century. Free article

The grave of an Irish Republican who died in prison in England in 1977 was marked with a new headstone in Glasnevin Cemetery on 7 September by the National Graves Association. Free article

Thomas McElwee, at the age of 23, was the tenth man to join the 1981 Hunger Strike. From Bellaghy in south Derry, he was imprisoned in 1976 after a premature bomb explosion in which he lost an eye. Free article

On the 250th anniversary of the birth of Daniel O’Connell we republish this article which was first published in August 2019. Free article

IRA Volunteer Kieran Doherty, TD for Cavan/Monaghan, died at 7:15pm on Sunday 2 August 1981, the day after Kevin Lynch’s death. Kieran had joined the hunger strike one day before Kevin Lynch and survived one day longer. Free article

He spent 71 days on hunger strike from 23 May 1981. He died on 1 August 1981. Free article

On the 50th anniversary of the Miami Showband massacre we re-publish this article by the late Ella O’Dwyer, first published in 2007. Free article

An historic statement was issued by Óglaigh na hÉireann, the Irish Republican Army on Thursday 28 July 2005. It brought an end to the IRA’s armed campaign and opened a new phase in the Republican struggle. Free article

THE death of IRA Volunteer Martin Hurson on 13 July 1981, after 46 days on the Hunger Strike, was unexpected. The suddenness of his death, coming only five days after that of Joe McDonnell, came as a shock since two other Hunger Strikers – Kieran Doherty and Kevin Lynch – had been almost a week on hunger strike ahead of Martin. Free article

World renowned Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick has made a new portrait of 1916 activist Elizabeth O’Farrell, the Cumann na mBan nurse who famously braved British Army gunfire on Moore Street to take Pearse’s surrender note to the British forces, and who remained a Republican all her life. Free article

One hundred years ago in June 1925 the first paper to bear the title 'An Phoblacht' was published. It was to last for 12 turbulent years and to leave a legacy of lively campaigning republican journalism. Free article

A century ago in the summer of 1925 the Boundary Commission established under the Anglo-Irish Treaty was hearing evidence on the ground in the Six Counties as it prepared its report and considered what changes if any should be made to the border that divided Ireland. Free article

Sinn Féin’s Matt Carthy gave the main address at the annual commemoration for Volunteer Martin ‘Doco’ Doherty, who was killed 31 years ago today. Free article