Was The IRA Defeated? Or How Did The Troubles End
Dr Thomas Leahy is a lecturer in British and Irish Politics and Contemporary History at Cardiff University, and the authorContinue Reading
Category: Irish Republican
A Partisan History Of The Name IRA
The historical lecturer Séan Ó Duibhir has an interesting if flawed review on the RTÉ website of the many insurgentContinue Reading
The Hidden Hand: Official Sinn Féin – The Workers Party And Irish Journalism
Village Magazine, which has gained a reputation over the last few years for shining a light on some of theContinue Reading
Was The IRA Defeated?
One of the great modern myths of the Troubles, the insurgency and counterinsurgency conflict that raged in the British-ruled northContinue Reading
New IRA Interview On The Border, Brexit And Armed Resistance
Featured below is an interview by Channel 4 News in Britain with a spokesperson for the so-called New Irish RepublicanContinue Reading
The New IRA Interview: Armed Struggle Without Purpose
The weekend publication of an interview in The Sunday Times newspaper with representatives of the Army Council of the NewContinue Reading
SBS Dateline: Is Brexit Amplifying Old Tensions In Northern Ireland?
The destabilising effects of Brexit on the Irish-British peace process is the focus of this documentary by Dateline, a currentContinue Reading
No Man’s Land. News Footage From The UK’s Former Hard Border In Ireland
With a significant number of anti-agreement politicians and journalists in the United Kingdom continuing to dismiss the risk of aContinue Reading
Sinn Féin’s Westminster MPs Should Take Up Their Seats. In Dáil Éireann
The likelihood that the withdrawal agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom will be defeated by a majorityContinue Reading
Éirígí, Independents 4 Change, Mick Wallace and Clare Daly
Éirígí, the small left-wing republican party that seemed all but defunct after the 2014 local elections, has apparently undergone aContinue Reading
The M1921 Thompson Submachine Gun, The IRA And The War Of Independence
While the American-manufactured Thompson submachine gun is frequently associated with the early 20th century incarnation of the Irish Republican ArmyContinue Reading
The Legacy Of The RUC
The solidly pro-union newspaper, The News Letter, has launched an editorial campaign to revise the contested history of the Irish-BritishContinue Reading
Inside The IRA, Video From The Spin Magazine 1994 Feature Story
By the summer of 1993 the international press was full of speculation about the future course of the so-called “Troubles”Continue Reading
The Nation-State Of Ireland And The Revolutionary Irish Republic
The long-term republican activist, Cáit Trainor, formerly of the breakaway grouping Republican Sinn Féin, has written an interesting opinion pieceContinue Reading
Ending The Troubles: How The British Came To Negotiate The Peace Process
Over the last decade the politics lecturer Niall Ó Dochartaigh has done a fantastic job of analysing the complex andContinue Reading
The Bomb Attacks On The Homes Of Gerry Adams And Bobby Storey
It is difficult to know what one should make of the “bomb” attacks on the Belfast homes of Gerry Adams, theContinue Reading
Spy: Annie Mary Smith And The Citizens Defence Force
The Citizens Defence Force or CDF was one of the more desperate responses by the pro-treaty Provisional Government to theContinue Reading
British Government In The North Of Ireland “Riddled” With IRA Agents
The news that Drew Harris, the Deputy Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), has been selectedContinue Reading
The Total Of Conflict-Related Deaths After 1998 And The End Of The Irish-British Troubles
Since the signing of the multiparty and intergovernmental Good Friday Agreement of April 1998, and up to December 2017, nearlyContinue Reading
American Support For Irish Republican Asylum Seekers In San Francisco
Though it never gained the activist reputation of places like New York, Boston, Philadelphia or Chicago, throughout the three-decade historyContinue Reading
Video, PSNI Armoured Jeeps Attacked In Derry During Another Aggressive Intervention
Following Sunday’s attempt by the PSNI, Britain’s armed police force in the north-east of Ireland, to prevent an Irish republicanContinue Reading
New Video Of The PSNI’s Shock Intervention During An RSF Parade At Kilwilkie, Lurgan
Following on from yesterday’s overreaction by the PSNI, the United Kingdom’s paramilitary police force in the north-east of Ireland, toContinue Reading
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