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Bobby Sand's burger joints in Tehran, Iran.

After 15 years, what are the challenges ahead for the Good Friday Agreement

Irish groups to host Good Friday Agreement Symposium in NYC

Gerry Adams accuses British government of undermining Good Friday Agreement

Sinn Fein President calls on UK to honor commitments made during Northern Irish peace process

A burger joint and street in Tehran, Iran, pay homage to Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands

Iranian revolutionists looked to Sands as inspiration in the early ‘80s

Irish government concerned PSNI taking Boston College IRA tapes will destabilize peace process

While the PSNI has begun making plans to subpoena the Boston College ‘Belfast Project’ interview tapes, some are fearful that the exposure of the tapes could bring down Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and, in turn, the peace process ...

by KERRY O’SHEA 44

Irish police arrest more than one person a week in connection with terrorism related activities

One person arrested per week on suspicion of terrorism in Ireland – VIDEO

Police in Ireland have arrested more than one person a week in connection with terrorism related activities, new figures claim. ...

by IrishCentral Staff Writers 8

British government offered to end hunger strikes in 1981 in return for IRA ceasefire

British state papers just released claim that Margaret Thatcher’s government offered to end the hunger strikes in return for an IRA ceasefire in 1981 – and the IRA was close to agreement. ...

by PATRICK COUNIHAN 221

Group of butchers outside No.16 Moore Street - Pat Plunkett appears to the far right of the photo.

The fascinating tale of ordinary life at 16 Moore Street during the 1916 Rising

The aftermath of Easter Week 1916 – In a silence broken by sniper fire, Annie O’Flanagan stood in an upstairs room of No. 16 Moore Street. ...

by BARRY KENNERK 3

Margaret Thatcher's family hail from the Sheen Valley in County Kerry, should keep bringing it up?

Biographer insists Margaret Thatcher hated terrorists not Irish ‘liars’

In the wake of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s death, Britain's former Northern Ireland secretary Peter Mandelson said the only thing Thatcher ever told him was that the Irish were “all liars” and not to be trusted. ...

by KERRY O’SHEA 21

A prisoner daubs the walls of his cell with excrement in a picture smuggled out of the Maze

Northern Ireland’s Maze Prison, once home to IRA prisoners, to become peace center

On Thursday, Northern Ireland’s Environment Minister Alex Attwood formally gave the green light for the historic Maze Prison to be repurposed into a peace center with help from a European grant. ...

by KERRY O'SHEA 11

The good old anti-British days - Margaret Thatcher haters and spats in New York during World War II

A graffiti sign on the Falls Road in Belfast last week. Shaemas O’Sheel probably would have wondered what all of the fuss was ... ...

by Tom Deignan 1

The late Baroness Margaret Thatcher had her good points

Last Friday, a book of condolence was opened at the British Embassy in Dublin in memory of the late Margaret Thatcher. There were t ...

by John Spain 6

Britain's former Northern Ireland secretary Peter Mandelson (pictured right) has said the only thing Margaret Thatcher ever told him was that the Irish were “all liars” and not to be trusted.

Margaret Thatcher repeatedly told top British politician the Irish were ‘all liars’

Britain's former Northern Ireland secretary Peter Mandelson has said the only thing Margaret Thatcher ever told him was that the Irish were “all liars” and not to be trusted. ...

by IrishCentral Staff Writers 78

Irish groups vow to fight Boston College IRA interviews fight to stop NI police access

On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal to keep secret interviews with former Irish Republican Army members from being turned over to police authorities in Northern Ireland. ...