Gerard Shannon, author of the first ever biography of Rory O'Connor, speaks to An Phoblacht's Mícheál Mac Donncha. Best remembered for his execution by the Free State government with Liam Mellows, Joe McKelvey and Richard Barrett on 8 December 1922...

Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald announced on Monday that party representatives will not participate in St Patrick’s Day events in the White House this year.

Today marks fifty years since the death of Frank Stagg – the young Mayo man who gave his life on hunger strike in Wakefield Prison on 12 February 1976. Half a century later, his courage, his conviction, and his unbreakable belief in Irish freedom s...

Derrin Ó Brádaigh tracks the links between Frank Stagg’s hunger strike 50 years ago and the Palestinian activists who spent 73 days on hunger strike this year.

Irish Republican Frank Stagg was in a battle for his rights and against brutal English prison conditions from the day of his arrest in Coventry in 1973 until the hour he died in Wakefield Prison on 12th February 1976. His death after 62 days on hunge...

50 years ago this week Proinsias (Frank) Stagg was on the last days of his hunger strike. His protest was to demand an end to the inhuman treatment to which he had been subjected as an Irish Republican prisoner in English jails, and for repatriation ...

The new year began with the US President once again threatening the sovereignty of Greenland, and the potential for another unilateral military attack in the Middle East. Then on 3 January American forces entered Venezuela, killing both Venezuelan a...

The year 2026 has begun with an escalation of the multiple international crises caused by a US government headed by a megalomaniac who openly spouts contempt for international law and says his actions will be determined only by his code and by Americ...

Cormac Breatnach is curating Open Those Gates on March 29th, an event which will blend live performances, archival footage, film, poetry, and testimony - honouring those who fought for truth and justice.

Eoghan Mac Cormaic spoke at the annual Seán Sabhat Commemoration this year. Below we include his full oration, where he saluted ‘the selfless bravery’ of volunteers in the 1950s who were a bridge in revolutionary struggle.