The summer of 2025 has seen a spate of racist attacks on members of minority communities in Dublin, Belfast and beyond. The season of hate was symbolised by the appalling sight of a boat with effigies of refugees burnt on a loyalist bonfire in County...

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.

On the 250th anniversary of the birth of Daniel O’Connell we republish this article which was first published in August 2019.

IRA Volunteer Kieran Doherty, TD for Cavan/Monaghan, died at 7:15pm on Sunday 2 August 1981, the day after Kevin Lynch’s death. Kieran had joined the hunger strike one day before Kevin Lynch and survived one day longer.

He spent 71 days on hunger strike from 23 May 1981. He died on 1 August 1981.

A Basque militant once said that national liberation struggle and socialism are two sides of the same coin—words that still ring true today. The Basque people have endured great challenges in the pursuit of freedom.  Conor Murphy once remarked at...

An historic statement was issued by Óglaigh na hÉireann, the Irish Republican Army on Thursday 28 July 2005. It brought an end to the IRA’s armed campaign and opened a new phase in the Republican struggle.

Every now and again, the ghost of the Orange State appears to remind us of the bad old days. In those days, the Orange Order marched where it wanted, when it wanted and made sure we knew of its privileged position. The Orange State was supreme. All ...

THE death of IRA Volunteer Martin Hurson on 13 July 1981, after 46 days on the Hunger Strike, was unexpected. The suddenness of his death, coming only five days after that of Joe McDonnell, came as a shock since two other Hunger Strikers – Kieran D...

JOE McDONNELL was the fifth Hunger Striker to die due to the intransigence of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her government.