Sinn Féin’s National Chairperson Declan Kearney MLA has said everyone should be afforded the right of respectful commemoration.

Last Saturday in Brussels I addressed the launch of a European Anti-Apartheid campaign in support of Palestine.  The conference occurred at a time a population of 400,000 Palestinians faces total annihilation in northern Gaza. All food and medic...

Book Review by Mícheál Mac Donncha: ‘Policy of Deceit – Britain and Palestine 1914-1939’ by Peter Shambrook

Writing in his latest blog for An Phoblacht, Declan Kearney says that the occupation of Palestine is not intractable and that the way forward is obvious.

From midnight on Wednesday 31 August 1994 the Irish Republican Army commenced what it described as “a complete cessation of all military operations”. The IRA said it was taking this momentous step “to enhance the democratic peace process and un...

‘The Last Disco - the Story of the Stardust Tragedy’ by Seán Murray, Christine Behan and Nicky Ryan. Published by Eriu.

ONE of the most successful and spectacular escapes during the present struggle for freedom was the mass breakout by 19 republican prisoners from Portlaoise Prison in the summer of 1974. In November 1973, ten days after the dramatic escape of three r...

August 20th marks the death of Michael Devine, the 10th republican hunger striker to die in 1981. Born in Derry, Devine grew up in the tumult of the civil rights protests, internment and Bloody Sunday in January 1972. He died after 60 days on hunge...

Writing in his latest blog, Declan Kearney has said the British government needs to get involved in the conversation about constitutional change in Ireland.

Thomas McElwee, at the age of 23, was the tenth man to join the 1981 Hunger Strike. From Bellaghy in south Derry, he was imprisoned in 1976 after a premature bomb explosion in which he lost an eye.