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The burnt-out remains of houses after the sacking of Balbriggan by the British in 1920
IRISH President Michael D Higgins said that Britain must face up to its history of bloody reprisals as he marked the 100th anniversary of the sack of Balbriggan which fell today.
He warned that the imperialist strategy was not limited to Ireland and highlighted British actions in India, suppressing the 1952 Mau Mau uprising in Kenya and actions in Cyprus just four years later.
Mr Higgins described the sacking of Balbriggan as an “act of collective punishment, aimed at instilling fear into the public at a time when the Irish people were engaged in a struggle for independence from British rule.”
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
JIM JUMP looks forward to the International Brigade Memorial Trust AGM taking place in Belfast later this week where the spirit of solidarity will be rekindled
Why not pay a visit to Feile an Phobail, a people’s festival of community arts with roots in the days of internment without trial, and where the spirit of solidarity remains undimmed, says LYNDA WALKER