During its three-decade military campaign against British rule in the North of Ireland, the Provisional IRA used the Republic of Ireland as a base for training, supply, financing and support. This...

The road from the airport through the southern suburbs of Beirut into the city centre ran through fundamentalist Hezbollah territory and was known the world over as 'Kidnap Highway.' When Brian...

The Irish revolution began with the Ulster crisis of 1912 followed by the Irish Nationalist Party securing the passage of the Home Rule Act in 1914. By then, however, the Great...

Untangles the complex story of Northern Ireland and the troubles over the past fifty years. From the Divis Street roots of 1964 to the tortuous political manoeuvring that culminated in the...

Written by Margaret Urwin

Abhaile, which means home or homeward, is part of a series of pieces which celebrates Irish words. Words have been cherished in Ireland since the first lines were carved on Ogham...

Danny Morrison’s updated memoir celebrates the lives of family, friends and comrades and of those who influenced him. In 1971 he found it impossible to study against a background of British...

Latest in the Léargas series by Gerry Adams 

An Introduction to the Irish Civil War offers a fresh perspective on the causes, development and consequences of the Civil War triggered by the signing of the Anglo-Treaty, as it accepted...

John Gray le Beth McComish

Building a Fairer United Ireland – A new issue of An Phoblacht. Philip McGuigan writes on the Ballymena riots. Roy Greenslade looks at the BBC libel trial, Conor Murphy writes on...