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Tue, 15 Nov 2022 16:53:29 +0000
A time to manage and not deny change – real leadership is required
Sinn Féin’s Declan Kearney has said now is a time to ‘manage and not deny change’ and said real leadership is required.

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 13:04:52 +0000
Four lads from the Liberties
The Free State regime carried out the first prison executions under their new coercive legislation when four young men from the Liberties in the south city faced the firing squad in Kilmainham Jail, Dublin, on 17 November 1922. They were Volunteers P...

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 11:21:42 +0000
Events to mark Centenary of Free State executions of Republicans
The centenary of the execution of Republican prisoners by the Free State government is to be marked with commemorative events around the country in November and December. The Free State government introduced Emergency Powers legislation which gave it...

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 11:21:42 +0000
Events to mark Centenary of Free State executions of Republicans
The centenary of the execution of Republican prisoners by the Free State government is to be marked with commemorative events around the country in November and December. The Free State government introduced Emergency Powers legislation which gave it...

Mon, 24 Oct 2022 09:50:50 +0100
Daring Curragh Camp prison breakout remembered 50 years on
'Dogs out on Curragh after escape' was the lead headline on The Cork Examiner the day after an audacious jail break by seven republican POWs on Sunday 29 October 1972. The escape coincided with the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis which was taking place in Liber...

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 17:19:51 +0100
‘She enthused and motivated us all’. Remembering Pegeen O’Sullivan
Camden resident, writer, socialist, and Irish Republican, Pegeen O’Sullivan died in July this year aged 96 years old. Angie Birthill writes on Pegeen’s lifelong community activism.

Wed, 19 Oct 2022 09:52:21 +0100
Sinn Féin breakthrough in October ‘82
THE YEAR 1982 saw British Government strategy in Ireland in disarray. The Hunger Strike of the previous year, in which ten republican prisoners died in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh, had broken the British policy of criminalising the prisoners and, by ex...

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 16:01:28 +0100
The End of Partition: Planning for Ireland’s Future by Declan Kearney
Writing in his latest blog, Declan Kearney looks at the need to plan for Ireland's future.

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 12:45:10 +0100
Sligo’s Noble Six
By mid-September 1922 the Republican forces were on the retreat throughout Ireland and were reverting to rural guerrilla tactics while the Free State controlled the cities and towns.

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 12:45:10 +0100
Sligo’s Noble Six
By mid-September 1922 the Republican forces were on the retreat throughout Ireland and were reverting to rural guerrilla tactics while the Free State controlled the cities and towns.



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