On Easter Sunday, German radio station Radio Berlin Brandenburg broadcast a 10 minutes’ show on the Irish Republican women’s organisation Cumann na mBan. The programme…
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The fact that Irish Republican prisoners are held in British prisons in the North of Ireland causes conflict for the Northern Ireland Prison Service. Irish…
From Wednesday, October 12, to Friday, October 14, the Department of History & Civilization and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, collaborate…
Last week, four men were arrested in North Armagh and East Tyrone following a series of raids. The police operation was aimed at Irish Republicans active in…
Continue reading Craigavon Magistrates’ Court: Another Miscarriage of Justice?
I recently stumbled over following sentence on a widely read Irish blog: “Cumann na mBan (CnamB) has been subject to several splits down through the years.” This comment…
Continue reading So how many Cumainn na mBan are actually out there?
Newly released British Government Papers reignited the debate on the 1981 Hunger Strikes in the H-Blocks of HMP Maze/Long Kesh. This debate started a few years ago with…
Continue reading The 1981 Hunger Strikes Controversy & Ruairí Ó Brádaigh
On March 31, I published an article about Republican Easter Commemorations in the North of Ireland on this blog. The article was republished on the…
Continue reading ‘Many people don’t feel included’: More thoughts on #Coalisland2016
This year marks the centenary of the Easter Rising in Ireland. Over Easter, hundreds of commemorations were held throughout the island. International media outlets reported lengthy from the…
Continue reading Coalisland 2016: A Blow Against Normalisation
Thanks to the legacy of the conflict in the North of Ireland, Oral History research is under fire. The British and Irish governments, together with the five…
Continue reading Contested Memories, Oral History, and the Northern Irish Conflict
November 2, 2015 is a historic date in the history of Ireland. A majority of the MLAs in Stormont, the local assembly in the North…
Continue reading Northern Ireland: Gay-marriage, sectarianism & the Unionist veto