A large crowd gathered at the graveside of Irish Citizen Army and Cumann na mBan Volunteer Winifred Carney in Belfast today to mark the 80th anniversary of her death. The event, like previous Carney Commemorations, was led by a three-person ...
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Hundreds gathered in Milltown Cemetery on Easter Monday to mark the 107th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. Those gathered were addressed by former IRA volunteer John Crawley, Republican ex-Prisoner and author of ‘The Yank’, who delivered the main oration. It ...
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As another year comes to a close Lasair Dhearg sends revolutionary greetings to all of our members and supporters across Ireland and internationally. We extend our solidarity to all like-minded Socialist Republican activists and organisations, and our thoughts are with ...
Read More100 years ago today, counter-revolutionary Free State forces executed IRA members Liam Mellows, Dick Barrett, Joe McKelvey and Rory O’Connor. The ‘Four Martyrs’ were commemorated by Lasair Dhearg in Milltown Cemetery, Belfast, to mark the centenary, where a wreath was ...
Read MoreScores gathered at the graveside of Winifred Carney on Saturday [19th November] to mark the 79th anniversary of her death. A trade union organiser, member of Cumann na mBan and the Irish Citizen Army, she is buried in Milltown Cemetery ...
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A member of Lasair Dhearg lay flowers in remembrance of the three IRA Volunteers killed on active service in Gibraltar. Daniel McCann, Seán Savage and Mairéad Farrell were gunned down during a shoot to kill operation at Gibraltar’s Rock in ...
Read MoreConnolly Commemoration Held at Arbour Hill Saturday May 14th saw dozens of people gather at Arbour Hill Cemetery in Dublin to mark the 106th anniversary of the execution of James Connolly. Lasair Dhearg Dublin’s Dáithí Breathnach delivered the main oration. ...
Read MoreDerry Socialist Republicans mark 1916 Easter Rising on Republic Day A small crowd gathered at the Republican plot in Creggan Cemetery to mark the 106th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. Main speaker, Lasair Dhearg Derry’s Lorcán Ó Duine started proceedings ...
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Irish Socialist Republicans commemorate Easter Rising in Scotland. Saturday 23rd of April was the date chosen by Lasair Dhearg Scotland to hold a wreath laying ceremony at the graveside of Volunteer Patrick J. Maguire, a 1916 veteran, in a Glasgow ...
Read More1916 Rising Commemoration 2022 Scores gathered at the gates of Milltown Cemetery on Easter Monday to mark the 106th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. Following a full colour party to the Harbinson Plot, and before main speaker Máire Drumm, the ...
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Lasair Dhearg relaunches Supporters Network Lasair Dhearg has today announced plans to restructure and repurpose its old ‘Clann’ network into what is now known as ‘Lasair Dhearg Supporters Network’. Explaining why, the former Blanketman and political ex-prisoner Pádraic MacCoitir said ...
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2022 New Year Statement Lasair Dhearg sends revolutionary greetings to our members and supporters across Ireland and internationally. We send solidarity to the exploited peoples of the world and those who suffer at the hands of capitalism and imperialism. We ...
Read MoreBelfast Honours Winifred Carney Upwards of 50 people attended a commemoration in Milltown cemetery on Saturday [20th November 2021], organised by the socialist republican group Lasair Dhearg, to mark the seventy-eighth anniversary of the death of Winifred Carney. Carney was ...
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