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.

This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the 39th anniversary of the death of Irish socialist republican Peadar O’Donnell, we republish ‘For or against the Ranchers? Irish working farmers in the Economic War’, a piece which O’Donnell wrote in 1932.

This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, we republish ‘A New Nation’ by James Fintan Lalor. Lalor wrote this address to the landowners of Ireland at his family home in Tinakill, Abbeyleix in what was then called Queen’s County, now Co. Laois, on the 19th of April, 1847.