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On the night of 23 December 1939, a small group of Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers achieved what remains one of the most spectacular - and ultimately self-defeating - coup in the organisation’s history.
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In the minds of the political classes in Westminster and Brussels, however, Ireland remains something lesser: a post-colonial backwater whose people are expected to know their place.
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Four decades have elapsed since the Republican split over abstentionism, and much ink has been spilled over the decision’s rights and wrongs, both by historians and Republican activists.
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In October 2005, detectives moved quietly through a hotel in Belfast where the Workers’ Party of Ireland was holding its annual conference. The man they were looking for was its president, Seán Garland.
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Anyone who thinks a fascist government would not go after them because they fit the criteria of an “ideal” citizen must consider India.
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Nelle Oeffler from 'The Leftist Cooks' sat down with an Aontacht reporter to talk about the collapse of the National Gender Service focus groups, transphobia and colonialism.
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For eight decades, the sugar beet industry was an integral and constant component of the functioning of rural Ireland. It employed farmers, machine operatives, maintenance, factory workers. What followed was EU membership, sovereignty lost and a colossal mess.
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Child poverty remains one of Ireland’s most pressing social issues, even as average household incomes have risen in recent years.
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Olive trees (Olea europaea) in the Gaza Strip were never merely a source of fruit and oil. For decades they were a pillar of the agricultural economy, a renewable resource for thousands of families, and an integral part of Palestinian identity and family memory.
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The test is not whether leaders condemn racism abroad, but whether a Congolese IT worker in Dublin, a Roma man in Teplice and an asylum-seeker at the Belarus border can expect equal protection.
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Within this febrile atmosphere, two distinct documents emerged that, despite their radically different political trajectories, shared a profound and forward-thinking ambition: the democratisation of the economy in favour of those who created its wealth.
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In the tourist towns that sit near the border of West Cork and South Kerry the housing crisis isn’t an abstract national problem that appears in the broadsheets.