Month: April 2021

It is the commemoration of the Easter Rising in Dublin. Although events are low key this year with Covid regulation Captain Marie Carrigy of the Irish Army reads the proclamation on the steps of the GPO: https://twitter.com/i/status/1378677651242635264 Meanwhile at Áras an Uachtaráin President

This month marks the 105th anniversary of the murder on April 24th 1916 of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington Irish writer, nationalist, activist and campaigner for workers rights on April 24th 1916. Because his death occurred at the time of the Easter Rising Sheehy-Skeffington is often

‘Meanwhile the Manx government is ‘in bed’ with the genocidal regime’ RTE reports here that one of its journalists has left China fearing persecution. Yvonne Murray had reported extensively on human rights abuses and the use of forced labour and concentration camps holding

Today is the birthday of the Irish Republican leader Arthur Griffith. Griffith was at the start of the Twentieth century a pivotal figure in Irish Nationalism but just a few decades later he had been airbrushed from its history according to Irish historian