Former republican POW and blanket man Rab Kerr has just issued a pocket-sized new guide to Belfast murals as a follow up to his 2008 book, ‘Republican Belfast: A Political Tourist’s Guide. "The book," says Kerr, "is aimed primarily at tourists coming to Belfast and is...

Veteran republican Gerry O’Hare reviews the recently published book, The Escape, by Gerry Kelly, the Sinn Fein MLA for North Belfast and former hunger striker who was force-fed for over 200 days in British prisons in 1973 and 1974 after receiving two life sentences...

Tom Clarke was the first signatory of the Easter Proclamation, an honour his comrades bestowed on him in acknowledgement of the sacrifices he had endured for Irish freedom. Veteran Belfast republican Gerry O’Hare here reviews a recently published book on Clarke by...

Next Tuesday, 14th May, is the sixty-fifth anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba. In Belfast the Palestinian Education Initiative is organizing a public lecture outlining the work and legacy of the world renowned Palestinian writer, intellectual and activist, Edward...

Within hours of the news of Bobby Sands' death reaching the outside world, there were protests throughout Ireland and abroad. A reader has sent us this newspaper photograph of a march through Cork City centre on Tuesday, May 5th, 1981.  

  This weekend, Sunday the 5th May, is the thirty-second anniversary of the death on hunger strike of Bobby Sands, IRA Volunteer, blanket man, MP, whose life, whose writings, are an inspiration to thousands upon thousands of oppressed people and political...

A thought-provoking piece on the continuing debate over a peace centre at the site Long Kesh/H-Blocks and unionist opposition to it is published on the website of The Detail. More can be read about The Detail here.

  Boris Johnson, interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s World At One today recalled the 1981 hunger strike and at first he was frank – but then you can hear his big ‘But’ come in to correct and qualify what he was thinking. He was asked was he always a fan of Margaret...

Whilst a song fondly recalling Margaret Thatcher – ‘Ding Dong The Witch is Dead’ – soars up the British pop charts, an attempt by a right-wing Paris councilor to name a street after Thatcher has been denounced by a left-wing politician who says it would be more...

  Much of the coverage of the death of Margaret Thatcher and her tenure as British Prime Minister has inevitably focused on her handling of the hunger strikes. Yesterday, within an hour of the announcement of her death, this website received thousands of visits...