Urgent, universal collective action is needed to bring Israel to account. The holocaust of the Palestinian people and the colonisation of their lands must be stopped. There are no grey areas. There ...

An Phoblacht hasn’t had a regular cartoonist since the heyday of Cormac penned by the late Brian Moore, who sadly passed away in 2011. It is a gap many of our readers mention often and so here we have ...

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 ...

DISCUSSING the impact of the 1981 Hunger Strike on the course of recent Irish history, Séanna Walsh said: “I believe that people who went through this period and had these experiences have an ...

With no rising in sight in Ulster in 1798, despite the signals coming from Dublin, one man seized the initiative and assembled the United Irish forces to assert Ireland’s right to independence. That ...

This week marks the 40th anniversary of the heroic anti-apartheid strike by a group of young workers in Dunnes Stores, Henry Street, Dublin. We re-publish here special features first published on the ...

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 bereaved and survivors of this tragedy have borne their sorrow with great dignity for 43 years. Another mother, Gertrude Barrett, who lost her son Michael, was the first to give a pen picture at ...

RTÉ provided Fianna Fáil with advance notice of the topics for the RTÉ Leaders' Debate on Tuesday, An Phoblacht can reveal. Correspondence seen by An Phoblacht shows that an e-mail outlining the main ...

Inez McCormack was an inspirational Irish trade unionist. She was a committed leader of the equality agenda; a fearless proponent of anti sectarianism and housing rights; a patron of the MacBride ...

At a recent lecture on Ernie O’Malley by the historian and Sinn Féin Councillor Mícheál Mac Donncha, I was chatting with Belinda Nugent from the O’Malley/Russell Cumann and I mentioned that my Granda ...

The GPO The General Post Office in O’Connell Street was the headquarters of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic. It was occupied by a Headquarters Battalion made up of men drawn from the ...