The Irish Times

Fintan O’Toole: If Eta can say sorry, why can’t Sinn Féin?

Basque terror group and IRA were blood brothers but only one has accepted responsibility for pain it caused

Tue Dec 07 2021 - 01:00

‘The IRA was formed in my grandad’s sitting room’

Victor Fagg, ‘a Protestant IRA man’, played host to a significant meeting 50 years ago

Tue Sept 10 2019 - 03:43

MI6 and the IRA: A hearth where ceasefires were kindled

Brendan Duddy’s home was a secret meeting place for MI6 agents and IRA chiefs of staff

Mon Sept 02 2019 - 01:51

Inside the Belfast college that moulded peace-makers and Brexiteers

New illustrated book celebrates 150th anniversary of Methody in Northern capital

Thu Dec 06 2018 - 06:06

Brendan Duddy: From chip-shop owner to secret peacemaker

Duddy was the first outsider ever to meet the IRA’s Army Council

Mon May 22 2017 - 06:37

‘To leave Sinn Féin is to leave the IRA,’ Adams told ardfheis

State papers 1986: Delegates voted to end policy of abstentionism, leading to walk-out by dissidents

Fri Dec 30 2016 - 00:01

Sinn Féin TD says Adams may not be leader by next election

Regina Doherty also claims she is a ‘loyal supporter’ of Enda Kenny at MacGill event

Mon Jul 18 2016 - 18:32

The ‘true’ republicans: ‘Nothing since 1919 is legitimate’

Republican Sinn Féin and other critics believe the State is trying to water down history

Sat Mar 26 2016 - 09:53

IRA prisoner on life sentence who escaped from Wakefield prison

Séamus Murphy: August 8th, 1935 - November 2nd, 2015

Sat Nov 28 2015 - 01:00

Corbyn stance on scrapping nuclear missiles makes sense

Military’s default ‘deterrance’ position on nukes more to do with prestige than defence

Thu Nov 12 2015 - 01:00

Fighting for Ireland a family affair

The Bevans: Stewart Bevan’s grandfather Charles and his grand-uncles Seamus and Bevan fought in the Easter Rising

Fri Jan 17 2014 - 01:06

Former head of IRA who saw himself as successor to Wolfe Tone

Obituary: Ruairí Ó Brádaigh

Sat Jun 08 2013 - 00:00

Uncompromising republican Ruairí Ó Brádaigh dies aged 80

Dissident republican was former IRA chief of staff and TD who refused to take his Dáil seat

Thu Jun 06 2013 - 10:09

Republican Sinn Féin founder Ruairí O Bradaigh dies

80-year-old described by successor as a ’towering figure’

Wed Jun 05 2013 - 18:26

Margaret Thatcher was told ‘some’ IRA leaders wanted violence to stop in 1981

Thatcher papers raise questions about why it took until 1994 for IRA to declare its first major ceasefire

Sat Apr 27 2013 - 06:00