Justice for the Forgotten, which represents the bereaved and the survivors of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings of May 1974 ...

Veteran activist, Volunteer and republican prisoner Ronnie McCartney died recently. Danny Morrison gave the funeral oration, ...

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 ...

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 General Post Office in O’Connell Street was the headquarters of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic. It was occupied by a Headquarters Battalion made up of men drawn from the four ...

United Irelanders across London, and further afield, were saddened on Friday to hear about the passing of Martin Collins. A political organiser, across a range of Irish organisations and campaigns, ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the Partition of Ireland was first proposed in 1914 James Connolly said that such a scheme would mean “a carnival of reaction both North and South”. In the summer of 1920, as the British ...

The death occurred on Friday 21 February of Brendan McFarlane, who was a Republican leader inside and outside the prisons, known and respected by generations of activists across Ireland and beyond.

In the minutes of the meeting, the British Army’s most senior officer praises the vigilante efforts of the UDA. Loyalists killed 27 Catholics in July 1972; the UDA were responsible for at least 16 of ...