Saturday, April 26, 2003

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On November 19th, 1920, at the height of the Black and Tan War in Ireland, the 'American Commission of Inquiry on Conditions in Ireland...
Friday, April 25, 2003

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.....Alan Bell,the British'Resident Magistrate' in Ireland, was determined to confiscate the funds belonging to the Republican Movem...
Thursday, April 24, 2003

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..... Alan Bell,the British 'Resident Magistrate' in Ireland, organised a raid on February 27th, 1920, on Sinn Fein's Harcourt S...
Wednesday, April 23, 2003

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When the British sent their 'Black and Tan' thugs into Ireland to smash the IRA , they also attempted to hit Republicans by another,...
Tuesday, April 22, 2003

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.....James Crossan's friend, Sean Reilly, was asked by the barman if he would drive him and the two Fermanagh men to the border , and he...
Monday, April 21, 2003

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At the height of the IRA's border campaign,the RUC,acting on its own information and details believed to be given to it by British Intel...
Sunday, April 20, 2003

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.....it should be noted that, during the 1940's, the Republican Movement was in a bad way, virtually decimated, following the years of i...
Saturday, April 19, 2003

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.....the remains of Charlie Kerins, Maurice O'Neill and Thomas Harte were released from Mountjoy Jail; the funerals made their way towar...
Friday, April 18, 2003

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The remains of the six men were only released because public opinion began to go against Fiann Fail - thousands of republicans met the remai...
Thursday, April 17, 2003

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......George Plant was then brought before the Free State Military Tribunal charged with shooting an informer and was sentenced to death.......
Wednesday, April 16, 2003

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.....in his last letter before facing a Fianna Fail-organised firing squad (September 6th, 1940) , Tom Harte wrote, to his mother - "I ...
Tuesday, April 15, 2003

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....Paddy McGrath was brought to a shop in Rathgar Road in Dublin on August 15th 1940 by the then IRA Chief of Staff Stephen Hayes , for a m...
Monday, April 14, 2003

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The last of the sentenced IRA prisoners were released in April 1948 - three years after the formal ending of the IRA's bombing campaign ...
Sunday, April 13, 2003

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....the following month(July 1936) those arrested on the bus were brought before a Free State military tribunal where eighteen of them , inc...
Saturday, April 12, 2003

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A 25-years young Irish Republican Army prisoner in Arbour Hill Military Prison wrote a letter to his mother which ended- " I feel I can...
Friday, April 11, 2003

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....the arrest , in November 1865, of Fenian leaders and, in particular, James Stephens,meant that a planned uprising had to be postponed; t...
Thursday, April 10, 2003

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On the night of November 24th, 1865, the head of the Fenian movement and founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, James Stephens, escape...
Wednesday, April 09, 2003

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......indeed, many of the IRA Volunteers that took on the British in a guerrilla war during the 1919-1921 period learned their trade in Fron...
Tuesday, April 08, 2003

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In early June 1916, 1,850 Irish Republicans were brought to Frongoch Internment Camp in North Wales ; this was the first use by the British ...
Monday, April 07, 2003

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It has been estimated that around 1,650 men and women took part in the 1916 Easter Rising yet, in the days following its collapse, 3,430 men...