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us empire is failing, time to change course

The conference was held Liberty Hall,  the headquarters of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union early in the century and the headquarters of the Irish Citizen Army  and the Easter Rising in 1916 against British rule of Ireland. The principle of Proclamation of..

martyn bennett – the conversation

British Academy Small Award (2007 – 2008), £4081.30 . Joint director of Perdita Project, AHRB (1998), £160,000 . ... The A-Z of The British and Irish Civil Wars. Bennett M, 2010, Lanham, Maryland, Scarecrow Press, pp280; pbk 0-8108-7626-4 | 978-0-8108-7626-2, (second American..

beyond religion: faith and civil society

Macrae directed Ballymurphy Precedent, documentary film covering the killing of Catholic civilians by British Army at the onset of Northern Ireland's 'Troubles He explained that in Northern Ireland, the conflict between Catholics and Protestants was not religious, except more resembled a post-colonial war..

irish return to political violence?

It was led by Irish Republican Brotherhood, Irish Volunteers, and Irish Citizen Army, when British were engaged in fighting World War I. ... On Wednesday, April 24th, McKee's funeral was well-attended by British and Irish politicians, including..

1864: the first international

Frustrated at the unwillingness of most English trade unionists to support Irish struggle for independence and the movement for condemned Fenians, Marx broke new ground in stating the oppression of Irish held back British workers movement as whole. ..

the lost paths of marx’s
 thought uncovered

While Aricó acknowledges this shortcoming in Marx’s and Engels’ early writings, he notes that Marx (and to a lesser extent Engels) completely revised their views in light of struggles for national liberation, particularly that of the Irish against British colonial rule.  . ..

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