- "All changed, changed utterly": The historical significance of the Irish Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The problem with political anniversaries is that they often focus on specific dates in the past without any recognition that they are part of a longer process. Easter Monday 1916 is an iconic date in Irish history that all and sundry seek to appropriate, but it can only be understood by what preceded and followed it.
- Angela's Ashes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- Banned Books
Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Big Boys Rules
The Secret Struggle Against the IRA, 1976-87
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
The author, a defence specialist, researched the SAS's operations in Northern Ireland from the mid-seventies to the Loughgall shooting in 1987.
- Blood and Belonging
Journey into the New Nationalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Essays on nationalism in Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Ukraine, Quebec, Kurdistan, and Northern Ireland.
- Buda's Wagon
A Brief History of the Car Bomb
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Mike Davis traces the car bomb's worldwide use and development. In his analysis, he also exposes the role of state intelligence agencies - particularly those of the United States, Israel, India, and Pakistan - in globalizing urban terrorist techniques
- Canada Remapped
How the Partition of Quebec Will Reshape the Nation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Explores what might happen in the event of a decision by Quebec to separate from Canada.
- Das Capital, Volume 1
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1890
Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
- The Commons and the Centennial of the Easter Rising
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
A hundred years ago today in Dublin the Easter Rebellion commenced. This was an urban insurrection, in the revolutionary tradition. Not more than a thousand participated. It lasted five days, before the British military killed hundreds, and executed sixteen including those who had signed the Proclamation of the Republic.
- The Counter-Revolution in Ireland
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- Embassy Row Online
Resource Type: Website
Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
- Fighting Fascism: the Irish at the Battle of Cordoba
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A history of the role played by Irish citizens who enlisted to fight against General Franco's fascist forces in Spain in 1936.
- The Growth Illusion
How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national income consumes more resources than it creates on a sustainable basis. In other words, these economies are running backwards and making their citizens worse off.
- How the Easter Rising changed the world
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Chris Bambery argues that the Easter Rising relaunched the struggle for independence in Ireland and inspired national liberation movements globally.
- IFJ Hails Milestone Victory of Journalist on Protection of Sources in Northern Ireland
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The IFJ welcomes a court decision to dismiss the police application to force journalist Susanne Breen to reveal her source for a story on the murder to two British soldiers as a historic victory for the protection of sources.
- Ireland: 75th anniversary of the Easter Rising
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
- Ireland's Unfinished Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The revolutionary period sparked by the 1916 Easter Rising offered a vision of a truly democratic Ireland.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
- Left Behind by Good Friday
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
In 1969 Bernadette Devlin traveled to the United States on a fundraising tour. At age twenty-two, she was the youngest woman ever elected to Westminster and already a veteran of the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement and the radical student group People's Democracy.
- The Macmillian Atlas of Irish History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A full-colour atlas of Irish history.
- Making blasphemy an offence takes Europe back several centuries
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders condemns #with the utmost firmness# a new defamation law in Ireland that establishes blasphemy as an offence punishable by a fine of up to 25,000 euros. The law took effect on 1 January.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 17
Marx and Engels 1859 - 1860
Resource Type: Book
Includes Herr Vogt and articles on military matters.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 21
Marx and Engels 1867 - 1870
Resource Type: Book
Materials related to the International Workingmen's Association.
- Marx at the Margins
On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
Marx’s critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expended considerable time and energy on the analysis of non-Western societies, as well as race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
- Memory Against Forgetting: the Resonance of Bloody Sunday
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The museum John guards is a physical manifestation of the moral necessity of remembering that day’s cataclysmic violence. An attempt to remember the silences imposed on peoples’ experiences by time and traumatised memory, and, most of all, murderous rampage. And of course, if those left behind do not remember who will? It certainly will not be the guilty.
- More Than the Troubles
A Common Sense View of Northern Ireland
Resource Type: Book
The authors argue that religion is only one of many factors stemming from differing traditional, cultural, and historical allegiances that separate the people of Northern Ireland.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
- One Europe - 100 Nations
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- Opposing street thuggery in Dublin and incitement to violence
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The peaceful protest against the planned Pegida rally in Dublin on Saturday was a positive demonstration of how citizens should respond when they believe that a political movement is threatening our democracy. The street thuggery that happened beside it does not reflect the aims or methods of the peaceful protesters, and it undermines the campaign against Pegida. Violence, and incitement to violence, cross a dangerous line for human rights and democracy.
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- Remembering Ireland's Great Famine
A review of Black '47 a soon to be released film about the famine in Ireland
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
The Irish film, Black 47 (Director Lance Daly) is about the worst year of the catastrophic Irish famine and is set in the west of Ireland in 1847. The story centers around an Irish soldier, Feeney (James Frecheville), returning from serving the British Army in Afghanistan only to find most of his family have perished in the Famine or An Gorta Mor (the Great Hunger) as it is known in Gaelic.
- A reporter's trustworthiness and reputation for integrity is their greatest asset
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Sam Smyth of the Irish Independent and Sunday Tribune newspapers talks about the greatest threat to investigative reporting, and how he gets his stories.
- The Socialist Register 1972
Volume 9: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1972
- The Socialist Register 1977
Volume 14: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- The Story of English
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- The unrecognised truth behind that 'spontaneous' Belfast riot
Violence was planned by manipulative, self-interested individuals
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
An analysis of sectarian violence in Belfast between the loyalists and republicans and the international media coverage of this violence, which often frames it as political.
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