Anphoblacht

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 10:13:17 +0000
Bobby Sands leads new hunger strike
March 1st marks the 43rd anniversary of the beginning of the 1981 hunger strikes. An Phoblacht will be opening our archives which house a unique repository of articles and photographs from the hunger strike period. In the coming weeks we will be prof...

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 12:11:45 +0000
Ireland must be a voice for the Palestinian people
Writing in his latest blog, Declan Kearney said that the future of Palestine demands that the democratic world finally acts decisively in support of people's fundamental, national and human rights.

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:29:50 +0000
Francie Molloy not seeking re-election to Westminster
39 years of electoral representation by Mid Ulster MP Francie Molloy is ending this year as the Sinn Féin veteran announced his decision not to stand in the next Westminster elections. In his own word Francie marks out key events in his long career ...

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:43:42 +0000
Britain's death squads 1989
THE late 1980s saw an escalation in the use of death squads by the British regime in the Six Counties. Since the start of the 1970s, the British Army and the RUC had manipulated loyalist paramilitary organisations as part of their counter-insurgency ...

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 09:40:11 +0000
Double blow to censorship
IN JANUARY 1994, the armed conflict in the Six Counties was at a critical stage. The previous year had seen the deaths of 84 people in the war and, while there was some political movement, it was by no means clear that a peace process could be put in...

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 10:11:09 +0000
The Scandal of Israel’s War on Hospitals
Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, General Secretary and co-founder of Palestinian National Initiative (PNI), describes the recent events that have occurred at the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza as a scandal.

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:18:39 +0000
Shane MacGowan: A troubadour for the Irish in London
“The Pogues were also unashamedly abrasive and political, at a time when being political about Ireland in Britain was no easy task”. Joe Dwyer offers a tribute to Pogues lead singer Shane MacGowan whose death was announced today.

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 19:35:40 +0000
Bridge at Croke Park named Bloody Sunday Bridge
The 14 people murdered by British crown forces on Bloody Sunday, 21 November 1920, have been honoured with the naming of Bloody Sunday Bridge beside Croke Park where they were shot.

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 18:05:08 +0000
Two Republicans died during mass hunger strike 100 years ago
While Civil War as an armed conflict had ended in early summer 1923, the Counter-Revolution led by the Free State government continued and those who bore the worst of it were over 11,000 Republican prisoners held in jails, internment camps and other ...

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 18:05:08 +0000
Two Republicans died during mass hunger strike 100 years ago
While Civil War as an armed conflict had ended in early summer 1923, the Counter-Revolution led by the Free State government continued and those who bore the worst of it were over 11,000 Republican prisoners held in jails, internment camps and other ...

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