The prospect of Irish unity is no longer a distant dream. It is an achievable objective. That did not happen by accident. It ...

Ninety years ago today on 17 July 1936, Spanish generals led by Francisco Franco began a coup against the democratically ...

The Secretary of State Peter Hain and the head of the Civil Service Nigel Hamilton were before the Courts last week to hear a Judge accuse them of improper political purpose. The Secretary of State ...

Research by the ex-POWs and others has established that CR gas was stockpiled and ready for use at Long Kesh. THE BURNING of Long Kesh and the events of 15/16 October 1974 is one of the most ...

In 1998, Mitchel McLaughlin was Sinn Féin’s National Chairperson. Here he outlines the road map to the Good Friday Agreement Prior to the joint referendums to ratify the Good Friday Agreement, the ...

The opportunity to secure self-determination for our peoples is within reach. National sovereignty is inseparable from the organisation of society in the interests of all citizens. That is, a process ...

The last public hanging in England took place in London, outside Newgate Prison (now the Old Bailey) on 26 May 1868. It was the hanging of an Irishman, a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, or ...

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 ...

“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 ...

A nationality which may embrace Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter – Milesian and Cromwellian – the Irishman of a hundred generations, and the stranger who is within our gates THOMAS DAVIS was one of ...

September and October 2023 mark the 40th and 50th anniversaries respectively of the H-Block escape of 1983 and the Mountjoy helicopter escape of 1973. As well as breaking tight security and securing ...

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 ...