Stalwart political campaigner on all things Ireland Martin Collins died last week. Joe Dwyer pens an appreciation of Martin’s ...

As the year 1925 drew to a close there was anticipation in Ireland about the imminent outcome of the Boundary Commission established under the Treaty.

As we reach the 50th anniversary of the failed Sunningdale Agreement, glib soundbites detract from the wholesale failure of Sunningdale to address any of the causes of the conflict in Ireland. Joe ...

In the end she won by a landslide. Taking 914,143 votes and 63.36% of the total valid poll Catherine Connolly stormed home with the Government-backed candidate Heather Humphreys of Fine Gael getting ...

Catherine Connolly ‘caught the wind’. She struck a chord deep within Irish society. She became a mirror which reflected back to Irish people our innate values of compassion, concern and solidarity.

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 ...

Lidia Katia C. Manzo, is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Milan. Here she writes on her work in leading a City of Care EU project centred on the Dublin’s Oliver Bond flats ...

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 ...

Eighty years ago on 14th August 1940 Seán Russell died on a German U-Boat and his body was committed to the sea. It was a journey that he began as a founder member of the Irish Volunteers and ended as ...

The opportunity to secure self-determination for our peoples is within reach. National sovereignty is inseparable from the organisation of society in the interests of all citizens. That is, a process ...

Eighty years ago on 6 September 1940 a Free State Army firing squad executed two IRA Volunteers a veteran of the 1916 Rising and his young comrade born in that year. Paddy McGrath and Thomas Harte had ...

There’s an inner thing in every man, Do you know this thing my friend? It has withstood the blows of a million years, And will do so to the end. It was born when time did not exist, And it grew up out ...