ON THIS DATE (18TH OCTOBER) 232 YEARS AGO - 'REFORM DEMANDED FOR ALL'.On the 18th October 1791 - 232 years ago on this date - a group of socially-minded Protestants, Anglicans and Presbyteri… Read More

ON THIS DATE (6TH SEPTEMBER) 83 YEARS AGO : REPUBLICANS EXECUTED BY DE VALERA.Tom Harte and Paddy McGrath (pictured), two Irish republicans executed on the 6th September 1940 - 83 years ago… Read More

ON THIS DATE (16TH AUGUST) 103 YEARS AGO : AN IRISH FIGHTER IN A BRITISH 'COURT OF JUSTICE'.Pictured : Terence MacSwiney, his wife Muriel and their daughter, Máire, photographed in 19… Read More

ON THIS DATE (7TH JUNE) 102 YEARS AGO : TWO IRA MEN EXECUTED BY WESTMINSTER.Patrick Maher (left), executed by the British on the 7th of June 1921 - 102 years ago on this date. Ned Foley, exe… Read More

ON THIS DATE (3RD MAY) 107 YEARS AGO : THREE REPUBLICAN DISSIDENTS EXECUTED BY THE BRITISH.Pictured - Pádraig Pearse, Thomas J Clarke and Thomas MacDonagh.On the 29th April 1916, a re… Read More

ON THIS DATE (19TH APRIL) 83 YEARS AGO : IRA DIRECTOR OF PUBLICITY DIES ON HUNGER-STRIKE.IRA man Jack 'Seán' McNeela (pictured) was born in Ballycroy, Co. Mayo, in 1912 and, although… Read More

ON THIS DATE (21ST DECEMBER) 101 YEARS AGO : FERMANAGH COUNTY COUNCIL REFUSES TO RECOGNISE "THE PARTITION PARLIAMENT IN BELFAST..."Fermanagh council offices (pictured) issued the following… Read More

ON THIS DATE (21ST SEPTEMBER) 195 YEARS AGO : BIRTH OF AN RIC MAN WHO RESIGNED HIS POSITION IN OPPOSITION TO 'REPRESSIVE ACTIONS AGAINST THE IRISH'.On the 21st September 1827 - 195 years ago… Read More

ON THIS DATE (2ND NOVEMBER) 36 YEARS AGO : SINN FÉIN REORGANISED.'The story of how Gerry Adams tried to turn an eighty year old revolutionary movement into a British constitutional pa… Read More

ON THIS DATE (23RD NOVEMBER) 146 YEARS AGO : BIRTH OF THE BLUFFER BATES.'Sir' Richard Dawson Bates (pictured) was born in Strandtown, Belfast, on the 23rd November 1876 - 146 years ago on t… Read More

ON THIS DATE (28TH SEPTEMBER) 102 YEARS AGO : CORK IRA ATTACK BRITISH ARMY BASE.Richard Willis, a carpenter, and his friend Jack Bolster, a painter, sometimes worked together on jobs ; it wa… Read More

ON THIS DATE (10TH AUGUST) 98 YEARS AGO - IRA EXECUTIVE REVIEW PAST ACTIONS AND MAKE FUTURE PLANS.On August 10th (and 11th) 1924 - 98 years ago on this date - the remaining original members… Read More

Former Provisional IRA volunteers Colm Lynagh (left) and  hunger striker Tommy McKearney in Monaghan Town. Brexit will not lead to a return to bloodshed in Northern Ireland, says Provis… Read More

NATIONAL GRAVES ASSOCIATION FOUR COURTS RALLY, DUBLIN, SUNDAY 26TH JUNE 2022.'In Defence of The Republic.Join us as we mark the 100th anniversary of the Shelling of the Four Courts on Sunday… Read More

ON THIS DATE (20TH APRIL) 99 YEARS AGO - NEW IRA CHIEF-OF-STAFF ELECTED. UNFORTUNATELY.Frank Aiken (Francis Thomas Aiken, pictured) was born on the 13th February, 1898, at Carrickbracken, in… Read More

ON THIS DATE (12TH JANUARY) 83 YEARS AGO : REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT ULTIMATUM DELIVERED TO WESTMINSTER.An ultimatum from the Government of the Irish Republic was delivered to the then British F… Read More

ON THIS DATE (3RD NOVEMBER) 99 YEARS AGO : FINANCIAL WARNING ISSUED BY DÁIL ÉIREANN.On the 3rd November 1922 - 99 years ago on this date - Irish republicans loyal to the 32-Cou… Read More

ON THIS DATE (4TH AUGUST) 143 YEARS AGO : MARGARET MARY PEARSE BORN.On the 4th of August, 1878, James and Margaret Pearse (nee Brady), then living in number 27 Great Brunswick Street in Dub… Read More

ON THIS DATE (1ST SEPTEMBER) 218 YEARS AGO : TWO 'DISSIDENTS' EXECUTED BY THE BRITISH.On the 1st of September, 1803 - 218 years ago, on this date - two Irishmen were executed by the British… Read More

AN APOLOGY TO OLIVER HOYLE, WILLIAM BURKE AND CHRISTOPHER BYRNE.When Ireland called forth her true sons of the heather,O'Boyle was the foremost to answer the call,The sons of the Rosses he b… Read More

ON THIS DATE (25TH NOVEMBER) 107 YEARS AGO : 'IRISH VOLUNTEER' GROUP FOUNDED IN DUBLIN.On the 11th of November in 1913 in Dublin, in the then 68-year-old Wynn's Hotel on Lower Abbey Street… Read More

ON THIS DATE (3RD JUNE) 46 YEARS AGO : FORCE-FED IRISH HUNGER-STRIKER DIES.Michael Gaughan (pictured), the eleventh Irish republican to die on hunger strike, was four months away from celebr… Read More

ON THIS DATE (29TH APRIL) 104 YEARS AGO : REPUBLICAN 'SURRENDER ORDER' AND FR. ALOYSIUS. On Saturday, 29th April, 1916 - 104 years ago on this date - Pádraig Pearse issued the 'Surren… Read More

ON THIS DATE (5TH JUNE) SIX YEARS AGO - DEATH OF A STAUNCH IRISH REPUBLICAN."A national security threat, a dedicated revolutionary, undeterred by threat or personal risk.." - FBI descriptio… Read More

ON THIS DATE (31ST OCTOBER) 45 YEARS AGO : 'UP LIKE A BIRD'!The 'Alouette II' helicopter (pictured) which the IRA used on the 31st October 1973 - 45 years ago on this date - to rescue three… Read More

REPUBLICAN PRISONERS : PICKET IN REMEMBRANCE, STATEMENT IN SUPPORT.HUNGER STRIKE COMMEMORATION, Dublin, Saturday May 6th 2017, GPO Dublin, 12 noon to 2pm : Between the years 1917 and 1981, 2… Read More