This Saturday evening (2nd August) in Portadown at least fifteen bands and several hundred other participants and supporters will take part in yet another controversial, sectarian parade in the County Armagh town. On average, well over forty such parades are held in Portadown each year, the majority of them organised by the Orange Order, the Black Institution, and other unionist groups.

This month as part of our Connolly Archive, we begin a new serialisation of one of Connolly’s famous works, his pamphlet The Re-Conquest of Ireland, published 110 years ago at . . .

Activists from Éirígí and the 1916 Societies gathered outside the GPO in Dublin City Centre on Saturday, the 19th of July, to voice their opposition to the proposal of turning this historic building into a mixed-use, retail focused development.

Gareth Murray sits down with Breandán Mac Cionnaith, a Portadown based Éirígí activist and former spokesperson for the Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition. Breandán was instrumental in putting a stop to Orange Order marches going through his area in the mid-1990s.

On Saturday the 5th of July, the Republican Bloc marched with thousands of others at the National Housing Demonstration, which was organised by the Community Action Tenants Union (CATU). Éirígí activists and members of the 1916 Societies marched behind a joint Universal Public Housing banner, whilst carrying dozens of tricolours.

Mickey Moran sits down with broadcaster and director, Kevin Brannigan, who's two-part documentary on NORAID airs on RTÉ in the next few days. The documentary titled 'NORAID: Irish America And The IRA', tells the inspiring story of US support for the republican struggle in Ireland, contains some fascinating archival footage, and includes interviews with people who were involved at the time.

This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Miriam Daly, we republish ‘Women in Ulster’, a lecture Daly delivered while on a speaking tour of the United States during March and April 1979.

Given the disturbances in Ballymena on both Monday and Tuesday nights (9th & 10th June), it should come as no surprise that the far-right and their followers in various parts of the Six Counties

Mickey Moran sits down with Joe Mooney, an anti-racist, community activist based in East Wall, Dublin - ground zero of the emergent anti-migrant movement.

In this month’s Connolly Archive, we continue on with our serialisation of Connolly’s Labour in Irish History, moving on to the final chapter, ‘The Working Class: The inheritors of the Irish ideals of the past - The repository of the hopes of the future.’