Bobby Sands

Sinn Féin has entered the debate begun by commentator Joe Brolly and former MP Bernadette McAliskey on southern attitudes to northern nationalists dur(...)

Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams’s defamation case against the Sunday World has been settled at the High Court. Mr Adams received an apology f(...)

Irish republicans who gave their lives for Irish freedom were not criminals and attempts to demonise them as such would be rebutted, former Sinn Féin (...)

Enda Walsh is trying to describe his latest work without giving away the plot. “The First Child? It’s dark,” he says, which will come as no surprise t(...)

An unfortunate aspect of the recent Zombie controversy, in which the Cranberries’ classic became a social media battleground between Sinn Féin and its(...)

The Sinn Féin party leader on family, privilege and a rapid ascent in politics after a late start In February 2020, Sinn Féin pulled off one of (...)

Prison doctor David Ross was powerless in the role of bedside bystander as he tended to 10 hunger strikers who died during the 1981 Maze prison hun(...)

Now 63, former IRA prisoner, Thomas “Dixie” Elliott, who shared cells in the late 1970s and early ’80s with H-Block hunger strikers Bobby Sands and Th(...)

Letters and poetry composed by H-Block hunger-striker Bobby Sands and other republican prisoners including the late Mairead Farrell, which emerged thi(...)

In a feature on the then new “Coolmine Drug-Free Therapeutic Community” in 1973, this newspaper quoted its founder, Paddy Rossmore, as saying it had b(...)