Sinn Fein

United Ireland "Closer Now than it's Ever Been"

Both demographic change in the North and shifts in United Kingdom politics have made Irish reunification a reasonable possibility to discuss. 

Why Irish Revolutionaries Had to Go Global

by Brian Hanley

Irish republicans advanced their cause by association with the rising tide of anti-imperialism and the endorsement of national self-determination by Woodrow Wilson, as well as a promiscuous set of alliances with Black nationalists like Marcus Garvey and the new Italian fascist movement.

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams testifies against brother over charges he raped own daughter

DUBLIN — The leader of the Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein testified Monday in a Belfast court against his own brother, who faces criminal charges of raping his daughter — an alleged crime that Adams himself admitted he’d kept secret within the family.Gerry Adams, a reputed longtime commander of the outlawed Irish Republican Army and party leader for 30 years, insisted under cross-examination that he didn’t delay telling police to preserve his own political career atop Irish republicanism....