Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald announced on Monday that party representatives will not participate in St Patrick’s Day events in the White House ...

Derrin Ó Brádaigh tracks the links between Frank Stagg’s hunger strike 50 years ago and the Palestinian activists who spent ...

Today marks fifty years since the death of Frank Stagg – the young Mayo man who gave his life on hunger strike in Wakefield Prison on 12 February 1976. Half a century later, his courage, his ...

Irish Republican Frank Stagg was in a battle for his rights and against brutal English prison conditions from the day of his arrest in Coventry in 1973 ...

This book is of major historic importance. Once and for all it buries the myth peddled for decades by the political, academic and media establishment in the 26 Counties that Fianna Fáil Taoiseach Jack ...

Twenty years ago this month, ten workers from the Henry Street branch of Dunnes Stores in Dublin’s city centre went on strike to protest the selling of produce from Apartheid South Africa. A year ...

As many enthusiasts of the United Irish era will know, the rebel forces of County Down gathered in the days preceding the Battle of Ballynahinch on nearby Ednavaddy Hill. So on route to Rostrevor this ...

United Irelanders across London, and further afield, were saddened on Friday to hear about the passing of Martin Collins. A political organiser, across a range of Irish organisations and campaigns, ...

The General Post Office in O’Connell Street was the headquarters of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic. It was occupied by a Headquarters Battalion made up of men drawn from the four ...

Former An Phoblacht Editor and Sinn Féin General Secretary Rita O’Hare has passed away. Speaking this morning, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald TD has said: “I am deeply saddened to announce the ...

One of Sinn Féin’s longest serving elected representatives, Mid Ulster MP, Francie Molloy, has announced that he will not be standing for re-election in the forthcoming Westminster elections. Molloy, ...

ELLA O’DWYER is from County Tipperary. MARTINA ANDERSON is from the Bogside in Derry. Both were arrested in Glasgow in June 1985 with Gerry ‘Blute’ McDonnell, Peter Sherry and Pat Magee, ‘The Brighton ...