The grave of Theobald Wolfe Tone at Bodenstown was for long the site of the largest annual national gathering of republicans.

I have just returned from Washington, where Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald met with congressional members and Irish American and Trade Union ...

The political upheaval inside the Northern State which began in the late 1960s led to an explosion of creative and artistic energy in the nationalist community. It triggered the creation of local ...

On the 50th anniversary of the Miami Showband massacre we re-publish this article by the late Ella O’Dwyer, first published in 2007. THE Miami Showband massacre took place 31 July 1975, near Newry, in ...

In the end she won by a landslide. Taking 914,143 votes and 63.36% of the total valid poll Catherine Connolly stormed home with the Government-backed candidate Heather Humphreys of Fine Gael getting ...

With no rising in sight in Ulster in 1798, despite the signals coming from Dublin, one man seized the initiative and assembled the United Irish forces to assert Ireland’s right to independence. That ...

“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 ...

If this new Labour government is truly committed to full democratic implementation of the GFA, it should get involved in the conversation, and make a positive start by setting a date for a unity ...

The Special Powers Act, one of the most repressive pieces of legislation ever enacted anywhere, was extensively used for 50 years by the Unionist regime in the Six Counties. In March 1922, at the ...

WHILE VOLUNTEERS from all across the country fought in Dublin during Easter Week, the plans for the Easter Rising envisaged weapons from Germany being distributed to units across Ireland. The capture ...

ONE of the most successful and spectacular escapes during the present struggle for freedom was the mass breakout by 19 republican prisoners from Portlaoise Prison in the summer of 1974. In November ...

A couple of weeks ago I walked with a friend from the car park at Cargin Chapel towards the graveyard to attend the 50 th anniversary commemoration for Volunteer Anne McCoy. We spoke about the 40 and ...