#OTD On This Day – Howth Gun Running #OTD 1913 a shipment of 1500 Mauser rifles arrived in Howth harbour transported from Hamburg, Germany via ‘the Asgard’ – Erskine Childers private yacht. The rifles were to be used in the Easter ...
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Today, a range of Republican organisations, including Lasair Dhearg, confronted the fascist Irish Freedom Party on the streets of Belfast. The IFP is a racist organisation defining itself as ‘nationalist’; ideologically aligned to the ‘national socialism’ of hitler and his ...
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Fifty years: The Falls Curfew. “Move on you Irish Bastard…there are not enough of you dead”. These were the words uttered to a dying Charles O’Neill as he lay mortally wounded on the Falls Road moments after being impacted by ...
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#OTD 1970 – The Battle of St. Matthew’s The following piece has been provided by Lasair Dhearg’s Pádraic MacCoitir. “Growing up in Belfast in the late 60s and early 70s I was hearing a lot of shooting and bombing and ...
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Sinn Féin: Opposition to ‘Special Criminal Court’ withdrawn Since Ireland was partitioned in 1922 the unionists in the Six Counties and those in power in the Twenty Six Counties have introduced repressive laws in their campaign against Irish Republicans. The ...
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‘Bobby Sands Street’ – Belfast City Centre Streets renamed as part of anti-colonial campaign. Street signs honouring deceased Republican martyrs including the late Máire Drumm, IRA Hungerstriker Bobby Sands and 1916 Rising leader James Connolly were erected across Belfast yesterday ...
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George Floyd: Colonialism, Imperialism, and Ireland. Since the killing of George Floyd there has been a lot of anger in the US and other countries as well as here in Ireland. His death, and the manner in which it happened, effectively ...
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You Can’t Have Capitalism Without Racism Many people assume that racism is an inherent aspect of human nature. That we are naturally hostile to those who do not look like us. If this were true however, then throughout history we ...
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I nDíl Chuimhne Oglach Michael Gaughan On June 3rd 1974 the death of IRA volunteer Micheal Gaughan took place in Parkhurst Prison, England. He had been on hunger strike for 64 days and during that time he had been force-fed ...
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George Floyd: US Consulate targeted in Belfast, Ireland The US Consulate in Belfast was targeted this evening in a small solidarity action in support of those communities in the Imperialist US protesting against racism and police brutality. Activists from Lasair ...
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PSNI Normalisation tackled in Belfast Lasair Dhearg activists today removed dozens of PSNI symbols across North and West Belfast. The symbols, though small, play a significant role in Britain’s campaign of ‘normalisation’ of the PSNI and other security forces. Signage, ...
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‘Normalisation’ – The PSNI is Not a Normal Police Force ‘A new era’ and ‘a police force for all’ were the buzzwords of the year, when the ‘Police Service of Northern Ireland’ [PSNI] was formally constituted in 2001. Their inception ...
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“Support Patxi Ruiz” – MacCoitir Basque political prisoner, Patxi Ruiz, begins the ninth day of a hunger and thirst strike. He has been imprisoned since 1998 and like most Basque political prisoners he has been in different gaols in Spain. ...
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[Video] British War Jets in Irish Skies British occupation war jets were recorded in Irish skies today. Along with the British Army, the PSNI, the Royal Navy, Mi5 and civilian staff, over 20,000 security personnel maintain Britian’s occupation of Ireland. ...
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Moments in History: Bobby Sands and the Hungerstrikes. With Pádraic MacCoitir, Fearghal Mag Uidhir and Pól Torbóid, discussing the run up to, and after, the ’80 and ’81 hungerstrikes, and the effect it had on Irish politics and the Republican ...
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