Only A General Amnesty Will Yield The Truth
As the impact of the arrest of the veteran activist Ivor Bell continues to reverberate within Republican circles there isContinue Reading
Tag: Óglaigh na hÉireann – ÓnaÉ. The Irish Volunteers – IV
Some Cock And Bull
First off we have some serious (if highly improbable) cock-waving by Resistance Republicans via a rather bland report by theContinue Reading
The Peace Process Elicits Irish Pride But British Shame?
So suddenly the news media around the globe have become aware of one the most widely-known secrets in Irish andContinue Reading
Letter Bombs In Britain. A Failure Of Vision
This is not 1884 nor is it 1974. So what on earth is the military or revolutionary rationale for sendingContinue Reading
The Syrian Weapons Bazaar
The military blog of the New York Times, “At War”, has maintained some excellent coverage of the complex conflict inContinue Reading
Irish Ireland Versus Colonial Ireland
From the Irish Times: “Campaigners have called on Taoiseach Enda Kenny to take urgent steps to save the buildings thatContinue Reading
Truth Is The First Casualty Of War
Last Monday I watched the second part of TV3’s drama-documentary series, “In the Name of the Republic”, where once again Eunan O’Halpin claimedContinue Reading
In The Name Of History
I’ve just finished watching a history-documentary (and I use that term advisedly) on Ireland’s British-owned private television channel, TV3, called “In The Name of the Republic”. Presented by EunanContinue Reading
More Accounts Of Death Squad Britain
Veteran Irish journalist and author Ed Moloney and his colleague Bob Mitchell continue their investigations into the Military Reaction Force (MRF), a British ArmyContinue Reading
Unionism Closes Ranks
Interesting to note that the DUP leader Peter Robinson and UUP leader Mike Nesbitt have agreed a joint “Unionist Unity”Continue Reading
Brothers In Arms? Ireland And Israel
The excellent history site, The Irish Story, has recently posted two articles examining the ideological similarities between Irish and Israeli nationalism in theContinue Reading
Why The Past Is A Guide To The Future
As an Irish Republican I believe in the historic right of the people of Ireland, as a whole or individually,Continue Reading
Inside The IRA – 1994
How things have changed in the last 19 years – and how much they have stayed the same. In 1994Continue Reading
Counter-Gangs – The Origins Of British Terrorism In Ireland
I’ve devoted considerable space on An Sionnach Fionn to cataloguing Britain’s dirty war in Ireland highlighting a wide range of evidence gatheredContinue Reading
Dolours Price
Just a quick post to note the passing of Dolours Price, veteran Republican activist and a former Volunteer of theContinue Reading
Continuity IRA Prisoners End Dirty Protest In Maghaberry
Last week a significant number of the Irish political prisoners in the now notorious British-run Maghaberry Prison in the OccupiedContinue Reading
Purging The Ranks
Well what is one to make of all this then? The Irish news media is reporting that a close associate of theContinue Reading
Pádraig Mac Piarais – The New Study In Review
I’ve been meaning to write a review of the new biography of Pádraig Mac Piarais, “Patrick Pearse: the making of a revolutionary“ byContinue Reading
A Letter From John Paul Wootton
John Paul Wootton is a twenty year old Irishman who was arrested on the 10th of March 2009 at theContinue Reading
“New” IRA Prisoners End Their Dirty Protest In Maghaberry Prison
It’s been announced that a section of the Irish political prisoners engaged in a “Dirty Protest” in the notorious MaghaberryContinue Reading
Character Assassination And The Herald
Without a single shred of evidence that could stand up in a court, apparently based upon nothing but hearsay andContinue Reading
Britain’s Irish Civil War
In my 2011 review of historian Liz Gillis’ new Irish Civil War study “The Fall of Dublin” from Mercier Press IContinue Reading
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