This war is illegal. It is not a legitimate response to the human rights violations, lack of democracy, and breaches of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Iran. Already it is spiralling out ...

The two most corrupt leaders in the history of their countries are leading an imperialist war in the Middle East that has unleashed carnage across the ...

Between 1976 and 1981 the prisons in the Six Counties became front lines in the struggle for Irish freedom with an intensity for a duration never seen ...

The story of one of the bloodiest engagements of the War of Independence will be recreated by local historians as part of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Cúl na Cathrach Ambush, east ...

Beidh daoine ann sna glúnta romhainn a thabharfaidh a mionn leat go raibh siad i láthair ag Ard Fheis stairiúil Chonradh na ...

Three significant outcomes have begun to crystallise in the aftermath of the most recent Irish general election. First, Sinn Féin has been consolidated as the third major political force in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The death occurred on Friday 21 February of Brendan McFarlane, who was a Republican leader inside and outside the prisons, known and respected by generations of activists across Ireland and beyond.

50 years ago this week Proinsias (Frank) Stagg was on the last days of his hunger strike. His protest was to demand an end to the inhuman treatment to which he had been subjected as an Irish ...

Below we reprint the funeral report from 2006 issue of IRIS. Thomas McElwee, at the age of 23, was the 10th man to join the 1981 hunger strike. From Bellaghy in South Derry, he was imprisoned in 1976 ...

November 1922 saw a general sweep by Free Staters through Donegal in an effort to end Republican opposition in the county. This sweep was successful in that it captured the vast bulk of Volunteers ...