Last Monday’s vote on O’Devaney Gardens was the first major test for the coalition of parties that took control of Dublin City Council after the local elections in May. Unsurprisingly, they failed that test
The Irish Socialist Republican Party was founded in Dublin, in May 1896. The first explicitly socialist republican party in Ireland, it had an impact on the Irish political landscape that belied a membership which never exceeded a few dozen.
Éirígí activists today (November 8th) carried out a direct action to counter the lies of I-RES REIT, the largest rack-renting landlord in Ireland. The action saw the wording of an I-RES slogan on the hoarding of
Many readers will be familiar with the Martello Towers that are still to be found along sections of Ireland’s coastline. The towers beside the Forty Foot bathing area in Dublin, on Ireland’s Eye island in Dublin Bay, at
UP Housing - Universal Public Housing - is the only housing system that can permanently end the housing crisis by providing secure, affordable homes for everyone that is in need. Over time the system would
As part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, we republish a speech given by ‘La Pasionaria’ Dolores Ibárruri, that was delivered in Barcelona in 1938 to an assembly of International Brigadistas who were
Éirígí For a New Republic welcomes the passing of legislation to both decriminalise abortion and legalise same-sex marriage in the Six Counties The legislative changed were introduced following the failure of a
The left-wing Irish language group Misneach met for their annual Meitheal (a combined working meeting and Ard Fheis) this past week. An Bun Beag in the Gaeltacht of Gaoth Dobhair in Dongeal was the setting
Éirígí For A New Republic today launches a new campaign calling for the renewable energy sector to be taken into public ownership and for the state to rapidly develop sufficient wind, solar and other renewable
October 19th, 1920 marked one of the most notorious incidents of British brutality in Galway during the Tan War era. Mícheál Breathnach (Michael Walsh), a republican Councillor in Galway city, was taken from
