Ali Watkins’s book looks closely at Conlon and Noraid in Philadelphia during the early 1970s. That city was an important ...

Even before the establishment of the Irish State, the revolutionary Republic declared by Dáil ... influence through the larger anti-Treaty IRA In August 1922 British communist interlocutors ...

A former IRA commander has said that the armed conflict ... sentence but was later caught and jailed by for 20 years in the Republic. Speaking to the BBC in a two-part Spotlight documentary ...

The IRA’s guerilla fighters needed more and better weapons. And the Irish in America answered ... which certainly is pervasive in the North and the Republic about this period, I think I was ...

A former IRA leader who plotted bank robberies and jail ... his way out of the death sentence but was captured by Gardaí (Irish police) and jailed for 20 years. Speaking to Spotlight, he detailed ...

A dissident group responsible for at least seven murders is preparing to call a ceasefire. The New IRA is in the final stages of secret peace negotiations, with a deal over prisoner sentencing the ...

Speaking to the Irish News, Mr Dillon said McCann, who was a well-known IRA member, was opposed to the political direction of prominent republican leaders at the time. “He was opposed to the ...