When six escaped Fenian prisoners in Western Australia climbed on board a whaling ship called the Catalpa in April 1876 it was the culmination of ...

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 ...

IT SEEMS such an obvious concept but it is really surprising that no one has produced a book like this before now. This superb little volume is lavishly produced and packed full of informative text ...

This book is of major historic importance. Once and for all it buries the myth peddled for decades by the political, academic and media establishment in the 26 Counties that Fianna Fáil Taoiseach Jack ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

According to former RUC officer John Weir, the loyalist death squad was part of a covert murder conspiracy initiated by the British SAS and other undercover units FORTY YEARS after the assassination ...

Choosing a new, progressive social order is not possible if a country is partitioned, annexed, or colonized. A Basque militant once said that national liberation struggle and socialism are two sides ...

My comrade in Arms, Óglaigh na hÉireann, Ella O’Dwyer, came from Roscrea, Co Tipperary. Her sudden passing has carved a pain in my heart that I never knew existed. My deepest sympathy goes out to Ella ...

The opening words which Bobby Sands wrote on the first day of his hunger strike in 1981 have been echoing in my mind during recent weeks…’I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world’. A ...

When the people of Ireland and in particular the people of the Ballymacarrett-Short Strand woke up on the morning of the 28th June 1970, they woke up to a different Ireland, to a very different ...