Lost O’Flaherty Poem on McCaughey
A poem by Liam O’Flaherty on the hunger strike of Sean McCaughey was found and recently published by the historian Spencer J. Weinreich in the magazine Éire Ireland of the Irish-American Cultural Institute. Here, Eoghan Mac Cormaic, himself a writer on Irish political...
Gays & Republicanism
A new exhibition was launched at Áras Uí Chonghaile last week before going on the road. ‘Irish Republicans & The Gays - Cherishing All The Children of the Nation Equally’ is critical to understanding the evolution of modern Irish republicanism and the sacrifices...
A LIFE LIVED IN STRUGGLE
Joe Dwyer (who runs Sinn Fein’s London office) reviews Bob Newland’s Wherever the Struggle Is: A life of international solidarity. For thirty-five years, Bob Newland did not speak about his direct involvement in South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle in the early...
Audio Clip – THE WRONG MAN
Hoking through an old box in the loft yesterday I came across a CD. It was an audio recording of my play, ‘The Wrong Man’, made during rehearsals in Hammersmith, before the play was performed at the Pleasance Theatre in London in March, 2005 (it was also performed in...
Interview with Belfast Telegraph
Following the publication of my memoir, All The Dead Voices, I did a wide-ranging interview with Ciarán Dunbar for the Belfast Telegraph podcast which went online today (1 December, 2025). We discussed my upbringing, my days as a republican activist and imprisonment,...
‘A highly charged and highly emotional memoir’
I was recently interviewed by Áine Toner, Features Editor of the Belfast Telegraph about my recently published memoir. Here is the text of the interview: Danny Morrison’s latest publication, an update to his 2002 release All The Dead Voices, celebrates the lives of...
Death of Brian Patten
Sorry to hear of the death of the Liverpool poet Brian Patten. I first met Brian in 1997. I’d been invited to a friend’s wedding in Valencia but a few days before the wedding the venue had been moved to Mojácar. The groom, my friend Tim O’Grady, because of the change...
BLESS ME FATHER
Former IRA prisoner Pat Magee reviews the recently published and highly-acclaimed memoir, Bless Me Father—A Life Story by the singer/songwriter, Kevin Rowland. -oo0oo- The Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, 29 April 2016. I’m attending Imagining Ireland,...
ALL THE DEAD VOICES
My updated memoir, All The Dead Voices, was launched last Friday, 1 August, in the courtyard of Glór na Móna, Ballymurphy, in front of an audience of about one hundred people. The event—part of Féile an Phobail—was chaired by veteran republican Liam Stone. One of the...
NORAID: Irish America and the IRA
Ciaran Quinn, Sinn Féin Representative to North America, here reviews the RTÉ documentary, NORAID: Irish America and the IRA. The first part was broadcast last Wednesday and the final episode goes out tonight at 21.25. Both can also be viewed now on the RTÉ Player....