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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From the perspective of the British state, you could easily assume that the Good Friday Agreement was designed to achieve, and indeed it did achieve, many things. The cumulative financial cost is said to have run both the British and ...
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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August 3rd was the 106th anniversary of the execution of Roger Casement, which saw it commemorated in the grounds of the social club named after him. Members of Lasair Dhearg joined dozens of people as they walked from the front ...
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Five Decades of Injustice: Bloody Sunday People will travel from across Ireland and beyond next week to gather on the streets of Free Derry. The Bloody Sunday march for justice will mark 50 years since 14 unarmed and innocent civilians ...
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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 ...
Read MoreMargaret Skinnider remembered in Dublin and Coatbridge on 50th Anniversary Margaret Skinnider remembered on her 50th anniversary by Lasair Dhearg in Dublin and Coatbridge.Skinnider was veteran of the 1916 Rising, a suffragette, a republican, a socialist, trade unionist and a ...
Read MoreMary Ann McCracken remembered in Belfast Today marks the 251st anniversary of the birth of Belfast woman Mary Ann McCracken, a titan in Republican politics; a feminist, abolitionist and social reformer. Unable to gather at her grave to mark the ...
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Mary Ann McCracken – feminist, abolitionist, social reformer. “I hope the present era will produce some women of sufficient talent to inspire the rest with a genuine love of Liberty and a just sense of its value… for where it is understood ...
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On this day in 1895, Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years hard labour, the maximum penalty for the conviction of “gross indecency” with other men. The Irish author, playwright and poet was persecuted for his homosexuality, which at the ...
Read MoreVol. Sean McCartney Remembered in Belfast On the 8th of May, 1921, Belfast IRA Volunteer Sean McCartney was killed on active service in an engagement with British troops on Lappinduff Mountain, Co Cavan, Ireland. Speaking from his graveside, Lasair Dhearg’s ...
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‘We will make you rue the blood spilled at Loughgall.’ On this day, the 8th of May 1987, eight volunteers of the Irish Republican Army laid preparations for the continued implementation of a strategy that would see British security forces ...
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Republicans mark Centenary at Stormont Today, Republicans gathered in the grounds of Stormont to mark the centenary of partition. Carrying flags, posters and a large banner, they assembled at the feet of Carson, overlooking East Belfast. Pól Torbóid, a spokesperson ...
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