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An Inconvenient Truth Of The Irish Revolution
One of the great, populist myths on the right and far right of German politics during the 1920s and ’30s was the claim that the country had been “stabbed in the back” during the closing months of World...
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The Existence Of The IRA As A Guarantor Of Peace
Of the many, many tens of thousands of Irish people who have suffered hardship at the hands of the UK state in recent decades Robert Storey probably has more reason than most to feel bitterness or...
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Sinn Féin Sees Enemies To The Left, Enemies To The Right, Enemies All Around
Talking of the press conference by Bobby Storey, the Sinn Féin northern chairperson, here are the words of the deputy first minister in the regional administration at Stormont, Martin McGuinness, from...
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A British Tank On An Irish Street
A British Army Mark V tank rams a sealed premises on Capel Street, Dublin, January 18th 1921, during destructive house-searches by the UK Occupation Forces in Ireland On the 13th of January 1921 a...
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On The Anti-Colonial Struggle In Ireland Corbyn And McDonnell Are Right
The unexpected election of a progressive candidate to the leadership of the UK Labour Party, along with several like-minded colleagues, has sent a number of British unionist politicians and...
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Thomas Kent And The Hatred Of The Unionist Demagogues
Kathleen Kent, niece of Thomas Kent arrives at Cork Prison with her daughter Nora Riordan for the Removal ceremony: pic.twitter.com/WYOFOaI6kd — MerrionStreet.ie (@merrionstreet) September 18, 2015 On...
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O’Connell Street In Flames, 1916
“Irish Rebellion, May, 1916, Sackville Street in flames: a photograph taken by a “Daily Sketch” photographer under fire” “Irish Rebellion, May, 1916, Sackville Street in flames: a photograph taken by a...
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Lorcán Ó Ciaráin Of Magheramenagh Castle
Following up on my article examining the last great battle of the War of Independence, the confrontation between a combined force of pro- and anti-treaty units of the Irish Republican Army and the...
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The Long Shadow Of The Human Proxy Bomb
In the early hours of the 24th of October 1990 several volunteers of the Derry Brigade of the (Provisional) Irish Republican Army entered the home of Patrick “Patsy” Gillespie in the Lenamore Gardens...
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The British Army In Ireland: Murder, Mayhem And Madness
From the legendary investigative journalist, Duncan Campbell, a series of articles written for the New Statesman magazine in May 1984, describing the testimony of the former UK military intelligence...
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Belfast’s Fianna Éireann During The Irish Revolution
Members of the Fianna Éireann, an Irish Republican scouting movement, unload sea-borne weapons which would go on to arm the Irish Revolution, Howth, Ireland, July 26th 1914 (I’ve lightly cleaned this...
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Terror Breeds Terror
Joint footpatrol of British UDA terrorists and British Army soldiers, British Occupied North of Ireland, 1970s Following on from my brief post criticising the agenda-loaded commentary by certain...
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Bill O’Reilly And America’s Reporting Of The Troubles
Volunteers of the Belfast Brigade of the Irish Republican Army preparing for an attack, British Occupied North of Ireland, 1989 Do you remember the days when editors or producers working in the...
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Gerry Adams And The Problem Of Surviving The Cause
The president of Sinn Féin, Gerry Adams TD, is greeted with applause as he joins the Guard of Honour at the funeral of Nelson Mandela, the late president of South Africa, 2013. Mandela of course had...
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Britain’s Tribal Grudges Risks Renewed Conflict In Ireland
Three Volunteers of an Active Service Unit of the Irish Republican Army, British Occupied North of Ireland, 1970s The Irish have made peace but have the British? That is the question asked by veteran...
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No British Justice, No Irish Peace
A so-called “coffee-jar-bomb”; an improvised grenade developed and deployed by the (Provisional) Irish Republican Army in the north-east of Ireland during the course of the Long War Couple of things...
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Gerry Adams, CBS’ 60 Minutes And The Journalism Of Stereotype
Is this a metaphor? I do believe it is! I’ve stated before on ASF that the vast majority of “Western” career journalists don’t know their arse from their elbow when it comes to writing about the...
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Weapons Of The Irish Revolution
During the latter half of the Irish Revolution two Volunteers-of the Irish Republican Army train with Thompson submachine guns during extensive manoeuvres in the Dublin mountains, Ireland I thought...
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The Battle Of Pettigo And Belleek, May To June 1922
The modern Belleek-Pettigo Triangle or Salient, Ireland The Battle of Pettigo and Belleek in the summer of 1922 was the largest military engagement between the Irish Republican Army and the British...
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The British Army’s “Tuzo Plan” Of 1972
Joint footpatrol of British UDA terrorists and British Army soldiers, British Occupied North of Ireland, 1970s Over on the Broken Elbow blog the veteran Irish journalist Ed Moloney has a detailed...
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The Reorganisation Of The IRA In The Early 1970s
Volunteers of the Irish Republican Army in surplus US Army combat uniforms, one armed with an American-supplied M16 assault rifle, Occupied North of Ireland, 1970s Irish journalist and author Ed...
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British Spies In The IRA, Myth Versus Reality
A Volunteer of the (Provisional) Irish Republican Army in a military training camp outside the town of Donegal, Ireland, 21st August 1986 Just a quick heads-up for those who have access to the series...
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Lá Lúghnasa Agus Diarmaid Ó Donnabháin Rossa
British militiamen stand over the body of a slain soldier of the Irish Republican Army following the Battle of Eccles Hill, the Second Fenian Invasion of Canada 1870 A belated happy Lá Lúghnasa to one...
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American Journalism Fails The Irish Test Once Again
Kurt Eichenwald is a veteran American journalist of some thirty years standing who has specialised in everything from corporate malfeasance to defence issues for publications as diverse as the New York...
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John Redmond MP The Gun-Loving German-Shooting Pacifist
Just after midnight on the 15th of August 1915 several armed and masked men forced their way into the London and North Western Railway Depot in the North Wall district of Dublin and proceeded to load...
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The Reality Of Cold War Politics In The North-East Of Ireland
From 1995 to 2001 an organisation calling itself Direct Action Against Drugs, or DAAD, was involved in a series of “vigilante-style” attacks on a number of criminals and underworld gangs in the...
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Provisional IRA Not On A War Footing
Two days have passed since I criticised the risible scaremongering amongst sections of the domestic and UK press, as well as various opportunist politicians, following contradictory statements by PSNI...
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Jeremy Corbyn, From Sinn Féin To The ANC
Kevin Meagher’s article in the left-leaning New Statesman on the anti-establishment contender for the leadership of the UK Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, and his decades old support for the reunification...
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Dissident Republicans With Their Rockets And Their Guns
Supposed improvised rocket prototypes developed by Irish republican insurgents along with AKM, AK47 rifles and other munitions seized by Gardaí Did someone mention, “general election“? With April the...
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Armed Republicans Do Not Have 1.5 Tonnes Of Semtex-H
Reinforce the Ring of Steel! Deploy the SAS on the streets! Wrap Big Ben in cotton wool! The breakaway factions of the (Provisional) Irish Republican Army have “…more than a tonne of Semtex explosive“....
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The Óglaigh na hÉireann Propaganda Demonstration In Derry
On the evening of Friday the 29th of July the minor Republican Resistance grouping, Óglaigh na hÉireann (ÓnaÉ), staged a “show of strength” in the small Irish village of Park, County Derry. Three ÓnaE...
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The Republican Network For Unity, Óglaigh Na hÉireann And An Easter Message
As expected the Easter weekend witnessed the usual display of overweight men and women marching in ill-fitting, quasi-military uniforms while professing loyalty to the revolutionary republic declared...
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Military Secrets And Scandals
Volunteers of the Derry Brigade of the Irish Republican Army armed with American-supplied weapons, an M60 general-purpose machine gun and an AR-15 assault rifle, British Occupied North of Ireland,...
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