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History & Anniversaries – Ireland

History & Anniversaries - Ireland

Fifty Years Since ‘Internment Without Trial’

August 9, 2021 Peter Hadden and Peter Taaffe, from the CWI archives

“In the 12 weeks since the [British] Heath and [N Ireland] Faulkner governments introduced internment, the cities and towns of Northern Ireland have become battlefields. This vicious sectarian measure has mobilised huge sections of the […]

History & Anniversaries - Ireland

One-Hundred Years Since the Partition of Ireland

May 3, 2021 Niall Mulholland, from Socialism Today issue No.248, May 2021

“A carnival of reaction” Today, 3 May 2021, is officially marked as the hundredth anniversary of the creation of Northern Ireland. With sectarian tensions rising once again, the real history of the tumultuous decades leading […]

Bogside residents defending their barricades against police and loyalist assault
History & Anniversaries - Ireland

‘Battle of the Bogside’ and British Troops on the Streets

August 14, 2019 Niall Mulholland, Committee for a Workers' International

Fifty years ago this month, troops were deployed on the streets of Derry and Belfast by the British Labour government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson.The capitalist establishment described it at the time as a temporary […]

Good Friday Agreement

Belfast ‘Good Friday Agreement’ – What has it delivered 20 years on?

April 9, 2018 Niall Mulholland, CWI (first published in the Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party, England & Wales)

The tenth of April 2018 marks the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) in Belfast. This was the formal ending of the ‘Troubles’, the euphemism for decades of sectarian upheaval […]

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