‘You grow up in a flat complex in Summerhill and you think the State is out to get you’

In conversation: Grace Dyas and Gary Gannon

The day The Clash and punk turned Trinity into a war zone

The Clash played Trinity College 40 years ago today. The student organisers recall the British punks' explosive 1977 visit to Ireland

BBC documentary highlights women of North’s peace talks

Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition was established in 1996 to raise female voices

Foster made ‘real effort’ with Irish comments, says Coveney

Minister and Northern Secretary to meet Northern parties in effort to set up talks

I’ve tried to let go but Ireland is always lurking in my mind

I don’t get the emigrant obsession with Irish crisps and tea, but I haven’t lost my Irishness

Irishman who fought in Spanish Civil War remembered at 80th anniversary

Jack Prendergast joined the Basque Army to fight against Franco until ’the last inch of Basque territory had been taken’

Fascism needs to be confronted, says Bernadette McAliskey

Veteran republican gave address at event to mark 80th anniversary of Gernika bombing

A united Ireland – is there something in the air?

Key figures from both sides of the peace line have their say on the notion of Irish unity

Direct provision is ‘killing our souls’, protest hears

Group marches in Dublin and calls for end to system for accommodating asylum seekers

Brexit campaign in North ‘played on racism and emotions’

Immigrants in Dungannon are very concerned about what might change and when

‘RTÉ told us our abortion film lacked balance’

The maker of a 1994 documentary about three Irish women’s abortion stories says some in RTÉ were worried that the women ‘didn’t show enough remorse’

Call for review of Ireland’s UN Human Rights Council membership

Former senior civil servant says Government showing “blatant disregard” for victims of symphysiotomy

Bernadette McAliskey delivers reminder on human rights

Republican activist emphasises responsibility of those in power to safeguard liberties

Speakers blaze a trail of optimism at Countess Markievicz School

Delegates told that young people need feminism

‘I don’t see mass appetite at a street level for the armed campaign’

Dominic Óg McGlinchey says it is ‘make your mind up time’ for dissident republicans

Immigration control a ‘false conversation’ that is really about racism, says Bernadette McAliskey

Civil rights activist was speaking at Marxism Festival 2013

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