Today, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the 125th anniversary of the death of renown Fenian and founding President of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, James Stephens, on the 29th of March 1901, we republish the speech he gave at Jones’ Wood, New York in May 1866. #OTSG
Today, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the 125th anniversary of the death of renown Fenian and founding President of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, James Stephens, on the 29th of March 1901, we republish the speech he gave at Jones’ Wood, New York in May 1866. #OTSG
In case you missed it 👇 #OTSG
This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, one hundred and twenty-two years after the publication of the ground-breaking Casement Report and one hundred and forty-one years since King Leopold II of Belgium first declared himself supreme ruler…
In case you missed it! #OTSG
This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the anniversary of Jim Larkin’s death in 1947, we republish the transcript of a long two and a half hour long speech delivered by Larkin to the Dublin Castle Commission.
This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the 22nd anniversary of the death of Palestinian-American intellectual, Edward Said, we republish ‘Blind Imperial Arrogance’, a piece which was originally published in September 2003, shortly before Said’s death. #OTSG
This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the 112th anniversary of the death of August Bebel, we republish this extract from a longer speech entitled ‘The Social-Democracy and the Zentrum’, Bebel delivered at Bamberg on the 24th of September, 1902. #AugustBebel | #OTSG
This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Miriam Daly, we republish ‘Women in Ulster’, a lecture Daly delivered while on a speaking tour of the United States during March and April 1979. #OTSG
This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, we republish ‘The Palestine National Charter’, a document first adopted by the newly formed Palestine National Council on the 28th of May, 1964 - sixty years ago today. #OTSG
This month as part of our On the Shoulders of Giant series, and to mark the 108th anniversary of the beginning of the 1916 Easter Rising, we republish ‘The Coming Revolution’, first published by P.ádraig Mac Piarais in An Claidheamh Soluis on the 8th of November, 1913. #OTSG
