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The Battle Of Pettigo And Belleek, May To June 1922
The modern Belleek-Pettigo Triangle or Salient, Ireland The Battle of Pettigo and Belleek in the summer of 1922 was the largest military engagement between the Irish Republican Army and the British...
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The British Army’s “Tuzo Plan” Of 1972
Joint footpatrol of British UDA terrorists and British Army soldiers, British Occupied North of Ireland, 1970s Over on the Broken Elbow blog the veteran Irish journalist Ed Moloney has a detailed...
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The Reorganisation Of The IRA In The Early 1970s
Volunteers of the Irish Republican Army in surplus US Army combat uniforms, one armed with an American-supplied M16 assault rifle, Occupied North of Ireland, 1970s Irish journalist and author Ed...
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Shoot-To-Kill, Britain’s Summary Executions And Assassinations In Ireland
Margaret Thatcher touring the British Occupied North of Ireland in 1981 wearing a beret of the UDR, an infamous British Army militia responsible for scores of terrorist attacks during the 1970s, ’80s...
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Jeremy Corbyn And The Self-Deluding British Press
With Jeremy Corbyn & the comrades @ Portcullis House, Westminster. http://t.co/A6Vgmaglsa— Gerry Adams (@GerryAdamsSF) July 21, 2015 Watching the right-wing and nationalist press in the UK gnashing...
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British Spies In The IRA, Myth Versus Reality
A Volunteer of the (Provisional) Irish Republican Army in a military training camp outside the town of Donegal, Ireland, 21st August 1986 Just a quick heads-up for those who have access to the series...
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American Journalism Fails The Irish Test Once Again
Kurt Eichenwald is a veteran American journalist of some thirty years standing who has specialised in everything from corporate malfeasance to defence issues for publications as diverse as the New York...
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The Reality Of Cold War Politics In The North-East Of Ireland
From 1995 to 2001 an organisation calling itself Direct Action Against Drugs, or DAAD, was involved in a series of “vigilante-style” attacks on a number of criminals and underworld gangs in the...
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Jeremy Corbyn, From Sinn Féin To The ANC
Kevin Meagher’s article in the left-leaning New Statesman on the anti-establishment contender for the leadership of the UK Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, and his decades old support for the reunification...
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An Inconvenient Truth Of The Irish Revolution
One of the great, populist myths on the right and far right of German politics during the 1920s and ’30s was the claim that the country had been “stabbed in the back” during the closing months of World...
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Dissident Republicans With Their Rockets And Their Guns
Improvised rockets developed by Irish republican insurgents along with AKM and AIM rifles Did someone mention, “general election“? With April the 8th serving as the legal cut-off point for the holding...
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The African-American And Irish Civil Rights Movements
From NBC News, an article by Chandra Thomas Whitfield examining the influence of the African-American civil rights movement on its Irish counterpart in the UK administrated north-east of Ireland during...
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The Shankill Bombing And Britain’s Proxy-War In Belfast
Just after 1 pm on the afternoon of Saturday the 23rd of October 1993, Thomas Begley and Seán Kelly, two volunteers of the 3rd Battalion of the Belfast Brigade of the (Provisional) Irish Republican...
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