IRISH REPUBLICAN RICHARD BEHAL PART 3.
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 […]
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Brigadista Bob Doyle: From Dublin’s Slums to the Battlefields of Spain.
By Stewart Reddin. (Brigadista Bob Doyle — Image designed by Nekane Orkaizagirre) Robert (Bob) Andrew Doyle was born on 12th February 1916 at 15 Linenhall Street in Dublin’s northwest inner […]
Butch Roche from Wexford threw two CS gas grenades into the House of Commons.
The RUC used CS gas for the first time in their history in the Bogside of Derry on the 12th August 1969. It invisibly covered the streets while seeping into […]
Photograph of former Saor Éire volunteer Liam Sutcliffe
Photograph in military uniform of Liam Sutcliffe who was involved in the operation to blow up Nelson’s Pillar in 1966. He joined Saor Éire in 1970 and became a leading […]
Brendan O’Neill, Jim Lane and Donal Donnolly Visit to West Tyrone 12th, and 13th, October 2007. By Brendan O’Neill.
Cork socialist republicans Brendan O’Neill and Jim Lane visit West Tyrone fifty years and ten months since the night in December 1956 when in an operation involving up to 150 […]
The Wolfe Tone Societies-Anthony Coughlan.
In 1963 to celebrate the bi-centenary of Irish republican Wolfe Tone’s birth, the Wolfe Tone Bi-centenary Directories was formed. It was decided at a meeting of the Directories in Dublin, […]
Frank Keane a dedicated Trotskyist.
“The magistrate in his summing up said that he had no doubt whatsoever that I was politically involved. This should stand to my benefit at a later stage and should […]
