State Papers, Sinn Féin & Federalism
The last days of December traditionally bring the release of state papers after the 30-year embargo. Accordingly, the last couple of days saw the release of hundreds of previously secret gover...
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Interview with new Saoradh chairperson Brian Kenna
At their third Ard-Fheis (AGM) on 17/18 November in Dundalk, Co Louth, the Irish republican party Saoradh elected a new chairperson. Brian Kenna from Dublin succeeded Davy Jordan from Co...
New RSF President: But who is Seosamh Ó Mhaoileoin?
Republican Sinn Féin, the oldest of the anti-Good-Friday-Agreement groups that emerged from the Provisionals, appointed a new president. The announcement of Seosamh Ó Mhaoileoin came as a surprise ...
Radicalization in Prison: Historical Lessons for Today’s Challenges
This article has initially been published on Political Violence @ A Glance on 22 August 2018. On May 29, Benjamin H. shot four people dead in the Belgian town of...
Dreaming of an “Irish Tet Offensive”: Irish Republican prisoners & the origins of the Peace Process
This article has initially been published on The Irish Story on 6 August 2018.January 30 2018 marked the 50th anniversary of the launch of the “Tet offensive” in 1968 by North...
A German view on James Connolly
This article was published on The Pensive Quill on 8 August 2018. In the past three or so years, hundreds of books on almost all aspects of the 1916 rising...
Belfast Telegraph: Why ex-IRA bomber is wrong to take a uniform approach to PoW status
Former Provisional Shane Paul O’Doherty argued in this newspaper last week that republican inmates didn’t qualify as prisoners of war. Here, historian Dieter Reinisch says O’Doherty’s view is at...
A Fatal Attack in Dundalk, Racism and Irish Republicanism
A stabbing by an Egyptian teenager that left a Japanese man dead and two Irish men injured has reignited debates on immigration in Ireland. Irish Nationalist sentiments all too often...
Studi irlandesi on “Resistance in Modern Ireland” published!
One of the main (academic) adventures that kept me from doing what I should actually be doing here in Florence, namely, writing my PhD Thesis, has just seen the light...