Essays & Interviews
‘Got Fuck All’: Brendan ‘The Dark’ Hughes’ Dissident Republicanism
Marking the 15th anniversary of Brendan Hughes’ death, a short anthology of his writings – The Dark: Selected Writings of Brendan Hughes – bears testimony to a life which took Hughes from urban guerrilla, political prisoner, hunger striker and folk hero to reluctant dissident and outcast, told in its protagonist's own words.
‘The situation in the North of Ireland remains a colonial one’: An interview with Odrán de Bhaldraithe
Ahead of its publication on the 22nd of June, Louis Allday spoke to Odrán de Bhaldraithe about Neglect in the North of Ireland, a book that details the manifest neglect in the North’s economy, its politics, housing, and healthcare, the root of which is clear: British rule.
Time for real change? Sinn Féin and the recent Stormont election
Instead of celebrating the demise of the British institutions as a welcome step on the road to reunification, Sinn Féin find themselves pleading with their unionist partners in the administration of British rule in Ireland to return to Stormont. That the largest republican party is showing such commitment to the smooth functioning of the northern state should be worrying to anyone invested in reunification.