Ireland – Page 6 – People's World

Liam O’Flaherty’s ‘Hollywood Cemetery’: Long censored exposé makes a comeback

March 21, 2019 By Jenny Farrell

For readers of People’s World, a special aspect: O'Flaherty puts the Daily Worker (called Proletarian Power in the novel), at its moral center.

Butcher’s dozen: The crimes of Bloody Sunday 47 years on

March 20, 2019 By Jenny Farrell

Disbelief is the reaction of most in Ireland to the decision to charge only one British Paratrooper with the murder of 14 civil rights marchers.

Ireland dumps investments in fossil fuel companies

August 14, 2018 By Celia Bottger

Almost 900 cities, universities, and governments have divested over $6 trillion from the fossil fuel industry. Why not yours?

Irish women make history, overturn abortion ban

June 6, 2018 By Laura Duggan

The 8th Amendment, which equates the life of woman and fetus, not only banned abortion but made second-class citizens of pregnant women.

A terrible beauty: Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising

March 25, 2016 By Conn Hallinan

It is a hundred years since some 750 men and women threw up barricades and seized strong points in downtown Dublin, to be joined by maybe a thousand more.