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Sun, 13 Feb 2022 10:36:26 +0000Political unionism has mounted a new offensive to stop the process of change – Kearney
Writing in his latest blog, Declan Kearney said political unionism has mounted a new offensive to stop the process of change.
Thu, 10 Feb 2022 11:11:14 +000030th anniversary of 1992 Sinn Féin Office attack
Gerry Adams and Sinn Féin MLA Pat Sheehan were among the speakers at the 30th anniversary commemoration of the February 1992 attack on Sinn Féin’s Sevastopol Street Office.
Tue, 08 Feb 2022 14:36:40 +0000New Lodge community marks 49th anniversary of British Army killings
Relatives of six men killed by the British Army in 1973 on the New Lodge Road area of North Belfast gathered last Thursday 3 February to mark the 49th anniversary of the killings. Sinn Féin MLA Carál Ní Chuilin spoke at the commemoration.
Fri, 04 Feb 2022 11:28:59 +0000Early election must be called in absence of functioning Executive - Mary Lou McDonald TD
Speaking following resignation by Paul Givan as First Minister, Mary Lou McDonald said that the decision is all about the DUP’s own narrow and self-serving political interests.
Tue, 01 Feb 2022 15:55:29 +0000'We will not be silenced' Bloody Sunday 50 years on
Thousands of people turned out to mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday Walk of Remembrance that traced to route of the original march from the shops in Creggan to the Bloody Sunday monument on Rossville Street.
Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:00:01 +0000Eyewitness in Derry 30th January 1972
Within hours of the events of Bloody Sunday, the Civil Rights Association in Derry were recording first hand testimonies of what happened that day. Taken from the Massacre in Derry booklet we carry the accounts of each of the 14 Bloody Sunday killing...
Sat, 29 Jan 2022 10:58:13 +0000Have you forgotten Bloody Sunday?
An Phoblacht has never stopped reporting and writing on Bloody Sunday over the last 50years. In this piece written 34 years ago Kevin McCool revisits some key moments of Blood Sunday.
Sat, 29 Jan 2022 10:31:27 +0000‘I’ll never forget his face’
We republish an article from 1983, where Pat Deeney interviews Peggy Deery, one of the wounded who survived Bloody Sunday. Peggy died in 1988. Injuries received on Bloody Sunday seriously impacted on her health for the rest of her life.
Fri, 28 Jan 2022 08:41:32 +0000Thomas Kinsella’s ‘Butcher’s Dozen’ 50 years on
Eminent Irish poet Thomas Kinsella died in December 2021, just before the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Widgery Tribunal and the poem he wrote and published swiftly in response.
Fri, 28 Jan 2022 08:04:52 +0000Bloody Sunday in the British media
In the hours and days after Bloody Sunday the scale and intensity of disinformation spread about that day’s events by the British Government was unprecedented. Mícheál Mac Donnacha recounts some of the outcomes of this across the British media in...