A century ago in the summer of 1925 the Boundary Commission established under the Anglo-Irish Treaty was hearing evidence on ...

Irish citizens in the north of Ireland and those living abroad are still disenfranchised from participation in the democratic ...

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

Republicans across the Northwest attended the annual commemoration for 1916 martyr Seán Mac Diarmada on 11 May. The niece and ...

Twenty years ago this month, ten workers from the Henry Street branch of Dunnes Stores in Dublin’s city centre went on strike to protest the selling of produce from Apartheid South Africa. A year ...

This weekend we remember Kevin Lynch and Kieran Doherty, the 7th and 8th 1981 hunger strike martyrs. Kevin Lynch died on August 1st after 71 days on hunger strike. Kieran Doherty died August 2nd after ...

"Sinn Féin is absolutely committed to helping achieve that ambition through progressive public policy and legislation, a rights-based, multi-racial and multi-cultural Ireland" - Declan Kearney Inez ...

I can’t remember the last time I read a book so quickly or enjoyed one so much as this. The words of Máire Comerford’s revolutionary memoirs leap off the page and in its vivid recollection and ...

Eighty years ago on 14th August 1940 Seán Russell died on a German U-Boat and his body was committed to the sea. It was a journey that he began as a founder member of the Irish Volunteers and ended as ...

As many enthusiasts of the United Irish era will know, the rebel forces of County Down gathered in the days preceding the Battle of Ballynahinch on nearby Ednavaddy Hill. So on route to Rostrevor this ...

ELLA O’DWYER is from County Tipperary. MARTINA ANDERSON is from the Bogside in Derry. Both were arrested in Glasgow in June 1985 with Gerry ‘Blute’ McDonnell, Peter Sherry and Pat Magee, ‘The Brighton ...

In moving forward, our shared challenge must be to make the political process work, and to plan for the next 25 years. That means preparing for and winning a unity referendum in this decade, while at ...