This month as part of our Connolly Archive, we continue our serialisation of Connolly’s pamphlet The Re-Conquest of Ireland with Chapter One, ‘The Conquest of Ireland’.

Gareth Murray sits down with An Rúnaí Ginearálta Éirígí Mickey Moran, and Pól Ó Scanaill, Chairman of the 1916 Societies, to talk about the ongoing cooperation between Éirígí and the 1916 Societies, the origins of this relationship, the campaigns both organisations are working on together, including the new ‘No More Delays!’ campaign, along with discussing the need to build a new, vibrant and confident Republican Movement.

This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the 112th anniversary of the death of August Bebel, we republish this extract from a longer speech entitled ‘The Social-Democracy and the Zentrum’, Bebel delivered at Bamberg on the 24th of September, 1902.

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.