Category Archives: Historical

12 Aug
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The British Army & Down GAA – If you won’t give us our land back, can we rent it from you?

Down GAA have acquired a lease on land in Ballykinler owned by the British Ministry of Defence (MOD). This same site was used by the MOD to train Unionist death squads to murder nationalists in the local area. Abercorn Barracks, ...

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Hook Line and Sinker
10 Apr
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Hook, Line and Sinker: 25 Years of the Good Friday Agreement.

From the perspective of the British state, you could easily assume that the Good Friday Agreement was designed to achieve, and indeed it did achieve, many things. The cumulative financial cost is said to have run both the British and ...

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31 Jan
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Bloody Sunday March for Justice 2023

Thousands gathered on Sunday to join the Bloody Sunday ‘March for Justice’ as it made its way from Creggan to the Bogside in Derry. 51 years on and the families of the fourteen slain on Derry’s streets by Britain’s armed ...

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04 Jan
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Watch: Our 2022 Year in Review

This past year has been a notable one for Lasair Dhearg as an organisation and indeed for the broader struggle in Ireland. Over the last twelve months our activists have been busy campaigning. During that time the capitalist crisis has ...

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01 Jan
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2023 New Year Statement

As another year comes to a close Lasair Dhearg sends revolutionary greetings to all of our members and supporters across Ireland and internationally. We extend our solidarity to all like-minded Socialist Republican activists and organisations, and our thoughts are with ...

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23 Nov
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Winifred Carney Remembered in Belfast

Scores gathered at the graveside of Winifred Carney on Saturday [19th November] to mark the 79th anniversary of her death. A trade union organiser, member of Cumann na mBan and the Irish Citizen Army, she is buried in Milltown Cemetery ...

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07 Aug
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Public Events Affirm Fight For Casement Re-interment

August 3rd was the 106th anniversary of the execution of Roger Casement, which saw it commemorated in the grounds of the social club named after him. Members of Lasair Dhearg joined dozens of people as they walked from the front ...

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07 Feb
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On this day in 1991: IRA Mortars Land on Downing Street.

On this day in 1991: IRA Mortars Land on Downing Street. At approximately 10am on the morning of the 7th of February 1991, as British Prime Minister John Major sat down with his War Cabinet in the Cabinet room of ...

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31 Jan
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Bloody Sunday 50th Anniversary March for Justice

Bloody Sunday 50th Anniversary March for Justice The Bloody Sunday 50th Anniversary March for Justice wound its way through the streets of Free Derry yesterday as thousands gathered to continue the demand for justice for those innocent unarmed civilians so ...

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Five Decades of Injustice: Bloody Sunday
21 Jan
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Five Decades of Injustice: Bloody Sunday

Five Decades of Injustice: Bloody Sunday People will travel from across Ireland and beyond next week to gather on the streets of Free Derry. The Bloody Sunday march for justice will mark 50 years since 14 unarmed and innocent civilians ...

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Lasair Dhearg relaunches Supporters Network
08 Jan
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Lasair Dhearg relaunches Supporters Network

Lasair Dhearg relaunches Supporters Network Lasair Dhearg has today announced plans to restructure and repurpose its old ‘Clann’ network into what is now known as ‘Lasair Dhearg Supporters Network’. Explaining why, the former Blanketman and political ex-prisoner Pádraic MacCoitir said ...

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04 Jan
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2021 Year in Review

We’ve been busy these past twelve months. This is a quick look at all the activism we’ve conducted and taken part in over the past year. From Belfast to Dublin, Derry to Cork, our members have been constantly pushing the ...

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2022 New Year Statement
01 Jan
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2022 New Year Statement

2022 New Year Statement Lasair Dhearg sends revolutionary greetings to our members and supporters across Ireland and internationally. We send solidarity to the exploited peoples of the world and those who suffer at the hands of capitalism and imperialism. We ...

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08 Jul
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Mary Ann McCracken remembered in Belfast

Mary Ann McCracken remembered in Belfast Today marks the 251st anniversary of the birth of Belfast woman Mary Ann McCracken, a titan in Republican politics; a feminist, abolitionist and social reformer. Unable to gather at her grave to mark the ...

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Mary Ann McCracken - feminist
07 Jul
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Mary Ann McCracken – feminist, abolitionist, social reformer.

Mary Ann McCracken – feminist, abolitionist, social reformer. “I hope the present era will produce some women of sufficient talent to inspire the rest with a genuine love of Liberty and a just sense of its value… for where it is understood ...

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