Wrongful imprisonment of an Irish Communist.
November 2022 it was fifty year since the wrongful imprisonment of Noel Jenkinson, an Irish Communist sentenced to life imprisonment with little or no evidence against him other than his […]
November 2022 it was fifty year since the wrongful imprisonment of Noel Jenkinson, an Irish Communist sentenced to life imprisonment with little or no evidence against him other than his […]
BBC television filmed a secret training camp, on 15, December 1970 at Lacken in the Wicklow mountains. It was complete with a dugout and firing range. Saor Éire volunteers appeared […]
Liam Sutcliffe gives account of the people who were branded terrorists in their youth and what it was like to live through those turbulent times. In 1966 he was involved […]
“There are those of us who try to follow the path once taken by Casement, Pearse, Connie Green and O’Hanlon. We seek to put through the charter that was bought […]
Seamus (Ryan) O’Riain interesting correspondence from General Georgios Grivas the EOKA guerrilla group leader dated 17th, March 1964. Five months before the out break of fighting between Greek and Turkish […]
This recently discovered photograph of the wedding of Trotskyists Géry Lawless and Anne Murphy, November 11th,1966 Church of our Lady and St Joseph Islington. The front row left to right: […]
Tom Barry the former IRA Commander of the Third West Cork Flying Column, during the Irish War of Independence, with Seamus O’Riain. Seamus as a teenager joined the IRA and […]
On 8th August, 1976, flag-bearers Bobby Sands left, Jimmy Roe and Kevin Carson right, at Belfast Sinn Féin, protest from the Busy Bee in Andersonstown to Dunville Park for a […]
The 1960s was a time of upheaval and change in conservative Irish society; social attitudes, fashion and music, for instance, all changed dramatically. New social movements helped shape the concept […]
Behal made a daring escape from Limerick prison in 1966, using a hack-saw to cut through the iron bars of the cell window.He became the first Irish person to be […]