Three significant outcomes have begun to crystallise in the aftermath of the most recent Irish general election. First, Sinn Féin has been consolidated as the third major political force in the southern Irish state. Second, for the first time sinc...

During this general election campaign in the south of Ireland, the electorate has been presented with a real choice - between the plan for change presented by Sinn Féin, or more of the same from the two conservative parties, Fine Gael and Fianna Fá...

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...

15 OCTOBER marks the 50th anniversary of the burning of Long Kesh camp in 1974 by republican POWs in protest at conditions and ill-treatment. In an article originally published in the November 1994 issue of Captive Voice, a magazine produced by repub...

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...