Let's plan our Future Together: ANC supports Unity Referendum and a United...
ANC supports Unity Referendum and a United Ireland.Irish Republicans have long enjoyed fraternal relations with the African National Congress. For much of the last three decades there have been...
View ArticleThe Reality of Partition
The Reality of Partition 100 years ago today the Government of Ireland Act 1920 became law and Ireland was partitioned. What did partition mean for nationalist families trapped at that time in a state...
View ArticleBallymurphy Massacre Victims - Innocent: Standing Idly by. Again!: Antrim...
My Podcast is now available at:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l%C3%A9argas-a-podcast-by-gerry-adams/id1507242875InnocentThis week the long running campaign for truth and justice by the families...
View ArticlePoots elected; Ballymurphy: A Conspiracy of Cover-up
There will be constitutional changeEdwin Poots has been elected as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party. I want to wish him well. It’s going to be an interesting time as he faces up to the...
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Two Fearless Belfast Women; Remembering Rab McCullough; Féile na gCloigíní...
Winifred CarneyTwo fearless Belfast WomenTwo Belfast women, Mary Ann McCracken and Winifred Carney, will soon have statues commemorating their heroism, leadership and commitment to social justice and...
View ArticlePreparing for Unity: Well done to loyalists trying to keep the peace:
Preparing for UnityHardly a week goes passed without some new aspect or commentary emerging on the issue of Irish Unity. When will the unity referendum by held? What criteria should the British...
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Dublin City Council vote to protect Moore St: A fine day, thank God:...
Master Plan for Moore Street UnveiledMost readers know that Moore Street in Dublin City Centre holds a special place in the history of Ireland. It was in Moore Street and the surrounding streets and...
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210621: Boris is a Chancer: Nor Meekly Serve my time: The biggest Cuban Flag...
Boris is a ChancerLast week was not a good week for Boris Johnson. Even before the weekend’s G7 summit began in Cornwall the news agenda was already dominated by reports that the US government had...
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Frances
FRANCES.My sister Frances died two weeks ago. She asked that I say a few words at her funeral. This is what I said:Our mother had thirteen children. Three died shortly after they were born. They were...
View ArticleWest Belfast at the Olympics; The Olympic Spirit; Russell Crow- Part 2.
West Belfast at the OlympicsWell done to the Irish Olympic team. It’s been a long hard road for all of them in getting to these, the 32nd Olympics of modern times now taking place in Japan. The Covid...
View ArticleThe cause of Ireland should be the cause of Labour: Cock A Doodle Doo - Part 3.
The cause of Ireland should be the cause of LabourThe internal machinations of the Labour Party in Britain are a matter for that party but the policies it adopts and advocates in relation to Ireland...
View ArticleInternment: Alex and Liz Maskey: and The last cock a doodle doo
InternmentImagine lying in your bed as the sun begins to rise above the horizon. You are awakened by loud banging on your front door. The sound of breaking glass and the splitting of wood as the door...
View ArticleAn Féile Abú - Black Mountain - Afghanistan - The expulsion of Ken Loach
An Féile AbúWell done Féile an Phobail and to all of the staff who plan and prepare Féile. Many thanks to all those volunteers who work around the clock every August to make it all come together. This...
View ArticleWant a United Ireland? – Get on the register to vote!: The Lazy Gardener. :...
Want a United Ireland? – Get on the register to vote! At the weekend the Belfast Telegraph published an opinion poll by the Belfast based polling and market research company LucidTalk. As a matter of...
View ArticleAre you listening Jeffrey? Reclaiming the Enlightenment
Are you listening Jeffrey?Unionism, especially its DUP component, has been talking up unionist and loyalist resistance to the Irish Protocol since before Boris Johnson dirty-joed them, broke his...
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Tír Éoghán Abú: Antrim Camógs show the Way: An Appeal by the Moore Street...
Tír Éoghán AbúMartin McGuinness had a great saying. Well he had lots of great sayings. This one has to do with hindsight. ‘Hindsight’ Martin would say ‘is a great man to have at a meeting.’ I thought...
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Our Exiled Children In America: Big Bobby and The Butterfly has flown away:...
Our Exiled Children In America. For centuries the twin goals of the emigrant Irish in North America were to build a new future for their families in An tOileán Úir (the new world – America) and to...
View ArticleJeffrey at the Crossroads: Article 16 - A game of chicken: Seán Ó Riada was...
Jeffrey at the CrossroadsIs the Union the only reason why some working class unionist voters persist in voting for parties like the DUP when that party clearly doesn’t represent them on social and...
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Michael Davitt - ‘unselfish idealist’.
Gerry Adams launched his latest book in his Léargas series on Michael Davitt at the Davitt’s GAC grounds at Beechmount in west Belfast on Saturday morning 16 October. The training grounds were full of...
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The Future of Moore St: Tony McMahon: Michael Davitt GAC
The Future of Moore StreetLast Thursday the relatives of the Signatories of the 1916 Proclamation of the Republic and the Moore Street Preservation Trust launched their detailed plan for the...
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