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 […]
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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 […]
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, […]
Release Frank Keane Poster 1970.
Frank Keane the National Organiser of Saor Éire spent a year in Brixton jail awaiting extradition proceedings to Ireland, for his alleged involvement in the killing of a policeman. He would […]
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 […]
‘When Irish anarchists faced the hangman’s noose – the case of Marie and Noel Murray’. Alan MacSimoin.
From Civil Rights to the Bailout: Social movements, workers agitation, and left-wing activism in Ireland, 1968-2010. Part 3: Radical Politics. Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class, Saturday 20th June, 2015. NUI […]
Alan MacSimoin a long-time Anarchist activist 1957-2018.
Alan MacSimoin a long-time Anarchist activist and founder member of the Workers Solidarity Movement. MacSimoin joined as a young man the Official Republican Movement (Sinn Fein). Alan was central in […]
