Sinn Fein MLA Gerry Kelly gave the main oration to a gathering of over 1,000 people in Scotstown, Co. Monaghan, to honour IRA Volunteer Séamus McElwain on the 40th anniversary of his death in a British SAS ambush.

5 May 1981 was one of the most defining days in Irish history. It was the day that Bobby Sands, the 27-year-old Member of Parliament for Fermanagh/South Tyrone, died on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh as part of the republican prisoners’...

24 April marks the 110th anniversary of the Easter Rising in Ireland, when Irish revolutionaries took on the might of the British empire and declared a national Republic. The Proclamation of the Republic itself was a revolutionary document which...

Easter 1976 marked the 60th anniversary of the 1916 Rising with the armed conflict ongoing in the Six Counties while in Dublin the Fine Gael/Labour Coalition government turned its back on both the North and on the heritage of Easter 1916 which it onc...

The flag of the ship that carried out the daring rescue of six Fenians from Western Australia 150 years ago this week is to go on display in the National Museum - but only for a mere two days.

‘A Nation for All - Solidarity, Democracy & Sovereignty’ by Caoilfhionn Ní Dhonnabháin. Published by Green Island Press.

Gerry Adams remembers Terry 'Cruncher' O’Neill. He was ‘an incomparable singer of Irish songs of resistance’, and ‘a hard-working activist’ who was ‘a huge part of the growth of Sinn Féin in North Belfast following the Good Friday Agreem...

This weekend, Republicans will gather at various locations across the island of Ireland for this year’s Easter Commemorations. Here you can find details for all commemorations such as times, locations and main speakers.

BELFAST BRIGADE 1st Battalion Vol Tony Henderson, April 4th, 1971 Vol Terence McDermott, October 2nd, 1971 Vol Martin Forsythe, October 24th, 1971 Vol Tony Jordan, June 28th, 1972 Vol John Finucane, June 28th, 1972 Vol Francis Hall, August 30t...

For many, the annual influx of politicians to Washington for St. Patrick’s Day celebration appears to be the pinnacle of engagement with the US. All year-round Sinn Féin representatives travel across the US and Canada hosting delegations, speakin...