THOMAS DAVIS was one of the most significant Irish nationalists of the 19th century. His writings helped to shape Irish ...

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 ...

"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 believe that those who die for Ireland have no need of prayer” ‑ Liam Mellows, final letter to his mother, 1922. On the morning of 8 December 1922, Liam Mellows went to his death along with three ...

Claims that Jim and another prisoner had concealed explosives down their trousers to avoid detection led to the Irish Independent front-page headline ‘Hot Pants Bombers’ BORN in Donegal in 1945, as a ...

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 ...

This feature first appeared in An Phoblacht/Republican News on March 28th 1991 to mark the 75th anniversary of the Easter Rising IT IS NO EXAGGERATION to say that the events of Easter Week in 1916 ...

The annual National Hunger Strike Commemoration will be held in Cork City for the first time ever this year on Sunday 27 August. Sinn Féin’s National Commemorations Committee is urging people from all ...

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 ...

The bereaved and survivors of this tragedy have borne their sorrow with great dignity for 43 years. Another mother, Gertrude Barrett, who lost her son Michael, was the first to give a pen picture at ...

Eighty years ago on 6 September 1940 a Free State Army firing squad executed two IRA Volunteers a veteran of the 1916 Rising and his young comrade born in that year. Paddy McGrath and Thomas Harte had ...

This is a watershed moment. The future of Palestine demands that the democratic world finally acts decisively in support of the Palestinian people’s fundamental, national and human rights. Israel’s ...