The Unconstitutional Pro-Treaty Faction Of The Irish Civil War
By the start of June of 1922, Michael Collins, Arthur Griffith and Richard Mulcahy had established themselves as the chiefContinue Reading
Category: Irish Republican
The INLA Volley At The Funeral Of IRSP Member Barry McMullan
While Sinn Féin has gone to great lengths over the last decade to move away from its armed revolutionary past,Continue Reading
Republican Activists Quit The Belfast Branch Of Saoradh
Well that didn’t take long. Saoradh, the Irish republican party formed last September, has experienced its first serious split withContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar’s United Ireland Party Is Not For The Irish Voters Of Belfast
If the political and media establishments were hesitant or fearful of last year’s centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising, its likelyContinue Reading
Poland Accelerates Its Destruction Of The Primeval Białowieża Forest
One of the lesser discussed aspects of the cultural republicanism which fuelled the early 20th century Irish Revolution were theContinue Reading
Thirty Years Of Secret Talks And Negotiations Between Britain And The IRA
With the United Kingdom’s right-wing press whipping itself up into a frenzy over the alleged sympathy of Labour Party leaderContinue Reading
The Uneasy Peace In Britain’s Legacy Colony On The Island Of Ireland
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), the United Kingdom’s militarised policing force in the Six Counties, has released its 2016-17 statisticsContinue Reading
The Five-Pointed Star In Irish Republican Iconography, Flags And Symbols
Over the last one hundred years the five-pointed red star has become a well known symbol of communism and some strandsContinue Reading
Alternative Facts In The Irish Times On The 1921 Execution Of An Informer
I rarely pay attention to the mealy-mouthed nostalgia for the ancien régime of British colonial rule which fills the pages of certainContinue Reading
MI5 And The PSNI Offer Money And Gift Cards To Recruit Informers
During the height of the conflict in the north-east of the country it was not unknown for the British ForcesContinue Reading
Gaming The Good Friday Agreement By Insisting On A Super-Majority Vote
The core principle of the Belfast or Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and all associated accords is the understanding thatContinue Reading
Britain Moves Towards Amnesty For War Crimes By Its Forces In Ireland
As I predicted back in March, the United Kingdom is slowly moving towards a general amnesty for all members ofContinue Reading
Some More Questions On The Freddie Scappaticci Or Stakeknife Controversy
Further thoughts on the Freddie Scappaticci or Stakeknife affair from a reader who wishes to remain anonymous but who makesContinue Reading
Freddie Scappaticci, StakeKnife And Britain’s Dirty War In Ireland
The more I hear about the Freddie Scappaticci spying or “StakeKnife” affair the more cynical I become. How did the ex-volunteer,Continue Reading
Brendan Howlin, The Labour Party And A Reunited Ireland
My view on our mainstream political parties discussing the reunification of Ireland has always been: put up or shut up.Continue Reading
Understanding Fake News, Tim Pool
Do not live in an echo chamber of your own politics, of your own likes and dislikes projected back at you.Continue Reading
A List Of Current Irish Republican Parties And Organisations
I was recently asked by a US historian with a fresh interest in Irish revolutionary politics if I could list forContinue Reading
The Republican Network For Unity, Óglaigh Na hÉireann And An Easter Message
As expected the Easter weekend witnessed the usual display of overweight men and women marching in ill-fitting, quasi-military uniforms while professing loyalty toContinue Reading
An Army Humiliated, The British Military In Ireland, Afghanistan And Iraq
In retrospect it seemed inevitable that the Irish Republican Army would emerge largely undefeated from twenty years of conflict with the BritishContinue Reading
An Undefeated Army, The IRA And The Irish-British Peace Process
I have argued in several recent articles that the United Kingdom’s continued inability to accept the unvarnished history of the Irish-BritishContinue Reading
The TUV And The De-Briticisation Or Decolonisation Of Ireland
Jim Allister, leader of the hardline Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV), recently had this to say about the establishment of genuineContinue Reading
A Pan-Unionist Axis Will Be Seen As Electoral Gerrymandering By Northern Nationalists
With the Democratic Unionist Party gnashing its teeth and pointing fingers of blame at Sinn Féin, it seems unlikely that the regionalContinue Reading
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