In this month’s Connolly Archive, we continue on with our serialisation of Connolly’s Labour in Irish History, moving on to Chapter Twelve ‘A Chapter of Horrors: Daniel O’Connell and the working class’.
Éirígí For A New Republic activist, Jenny White has called for the backlogs in the cervical and breast screening programmes to be be cleared before the winter cold and flu season and a posssible second
As Ireland emerged from the Covid-19 lockdown, Éirígí activists were quick to resume campaigning on a wide range of issues, including housing, healthcare, decent wages and international solidarity. In Dublin,
On this day in 1899, The Worker’s Republic newspaper published ‘Socialist and Political Reformers’. It was the final article in a James Connolly written five part series called ‘The New Evangel’.
There is an energy revolution happening in Ireland. The days of near total reliance on imported fossil fuels are slowly, but steadily coming to an end. Over the next decade the demand for green electricity is
Eddie Reade has called on the HSE and the government to provide permanent funding for St Brigid’s Hospital in Carrick-On-Suir. Éirígí’s representative for South Tipperary and Waterford made the call ahead
Éirígi For A New Republic have produced a special run of posters to highlight the rank hypocrisy of Supermacs boss Pat McDonagh calling for a cut to the Covid unemployment payment while he himself it
On the morning of June 5th, 1967, almost two hundred fighter jets took to the air from locations across Israel. They flew fast and low across both the Mediterranean and Red Seas before adjusting their course
The photographs below were take at two civil rights marches that were separated by 6,500 kilometres and four years. The top photo was taken in Selma in the USA in 1965. The bottom one in Newry in Ireland in 1969.
A recent two-part documentary aired on BBC looked at the achievements of the Bóthar Seoighe urban Gaeltacht in Belfast. The Irish Houses – Scéal Phobal Bhóthar Seoighe tells the story of the small group of
Éirígí activists distributed free face masks on trams and at LUAS stops in South Dublin on Tuesday morning (June 16). The initiative was undertaken as part of Éirígí’s work in the community and to highlight
