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 […]
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 […]
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