My Fight For Irish Freedom
In 19191 a group of men barely out of their teens, poorly armed, with no money and little training, renewed the fight begun in 1916 to drive the British out of...
A Letter from Gerry Adams (Beirut search for Brian Keenan)
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...
From Armed Struggle To Academia
Paddy McMenamin, former political prisoner in Long Kesh in the 1970s, born in Belfast, domiciled in Galway and 30 years in Donegal in between! 'Armed Struggle to Academia' is a personal...
THE INVINCIBLES- THE PHOENIX PARK ASSASSINATIONS AND THE CONSPIRACY THAT SHOOK AN EMPIRE
In an Ireland still reeling from years of famine, with tenant farmers being evicted and left to starve for their inability to pay exorbitant rents, revolutionary fervour was growing. An inner...
Stolen Faith
Belfast, 1944: American soldier James McCann meets the beautiful and impetuous Rose Rafferty. They fall in love, but their romance is forbidden- and war separates them. Boston, present day: James's children...
Markievicz, A Most Outrageous Rebel
Countess Constance Markievicz- one of the most remarkable women in Irish history- was a revolutionary, a socialist and a feminist, as well as an artist and writer. A natural leader, 'Madame',...
Unlikely Rebels. The Gifford Girls And The Fight For Irish Freedom
Many people who know the story of the 1916 Rising have heard the harrowing account of the wedding of Grace Gifford and Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainham Gaol, on the dat before...
The Bloodied Field
On the morning of 21st November 1920, fourteen men lay dead across Dublin City after an IRA attack designed to cripple British intelligence services in Ireland. That afternoon, trucks if police...
On Dangerous Ground A Memoir Of The Irish Revolution By: Máire Comerford
Edited by: Hilary Dully On Dangerous Ground is the revolutionary period memoir of Republican Máire Comerford (1893–1982). This striking memoir, one of the last of its era, includes Comerford’s original text,...
Free Statism & The Good Old IRA
Free Statism & The Good Old IRA By Danny Morrison Greenisland Press Veteran republican Danny Morrison challenges Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Irish establishment over their attitude to partition and...
On The Border
September 1921, and civil unrest is simmering across Ireland. At a rally in Armagh City, Michael Collins, the MP for Armagh, gives embattled Northern Nationalists hope that they will be part...
Time Shadows, A Prison Memoir.
1621 days naked in a prison cell 1079 days without washing 70 days on hunger strike Dr Laurence McKeown is a published author, poet, playwright, and filmmaker. He is also a...