http://www.eirigi.org éirígí news and updates Wed, 15 May 2013 22:01:53 GMT ListGarden Program 1.3.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.eirigi.org/latest/latest110513.html Kathleen Lynn was born into a protestant family in Mullafarry, outside Killala, County Mayo on the January 28, 1878. Her father was a Church of Ireland rector. Growing up in rural Co. Mayo where the devastating effects of the Great Hunger were plain to be seen amongst the rural poor had a deep effect on the young Kathleen. Sat, 11 May 2013 21:01:41 GMT http://www.eirigi.org/latest/latest100513.html On Saturday, April 27, éirígí held its first public event in the city of Galway. The party ran an information stand on Shop Street in the city centre, with information leaflets about Stephen Murney’s ongoing imprisonment being distributed to pedestrians. Fri, 10 May 2013 18:37:13 GMT http://www.eirigi.org/latest/latest100513.html Ar 27ú Aibreán a bhí an chéad ócáid phoiblí ag éirígí i nGaillimh. Choinnigh an páirtí seastán eolais i lár na cathrach ar shráid na siopaí i rith an lae agus scaipeadh bileoga eolais ar an phobal maidir leis an éagóir atá á déanamh ar Stephen Murney agus é i ngéibhinn sna Sé Chondae. Fri, 10 May 2013 18:29:14 GMT http://www.eirigi.org/latest/latest090513.html Last Sunday saw republicans from across Dublin and beyond gather on O’Connell Bridge to mark the thirty-second anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands. Thu, 09 May 2013 17:57:37 GMT http://www.eirigi.org/latest/latest070513.html Éamonn Ceannt was born 21 September 1881 in Ballymoe, east County Galway. His father, James Kent, was an officer in the Royal Irish Constabulary and as child Éamonn moved to Ardee and later to Drogheda as his father was transferred from barracks to barracks. Tue, 07 May 2013 18:18:15 GMT http://www.eirigi.org/latest/latest050513.html Winifred Carney was born on the 4th of December 1887 in Bangor, County Down. She was the youngest of six children, three boys and three girls, born to Alfred and Sarah Carney. When Winnie was still a child her parents broke up and her mother moved the family to Belfast, eventually settling in Carlisle Circus. Sun, 05 May 2013 21:22:33 GMT http://www.eirigi.org/latest/latest030513.html On Friday April 26, scores of people including members of éirígí took part in a protest outside Newbridge Credit Union on Moorefield Road, Newbridge, County Kildare. Fri, 03 May 2013 22:58:39 GMT http://www.eirigi.org/latest/latest020513.html On Friday, April 19, Wicklow anti-austerity campaigners from éirígí, the Independent Workers Union and the Wicklow Campaign Against Home and Water Taxes, held another successful protest at the constituency office of Wicklow’s Labour Party TD, Anne Ferris. The office is situated on Bray Main Street. Thu, 02 May 2013 22:29:30 GMT http://www.eirigi.org/latest/latest010513.html Michael Mallin was born 1st of December 1874 in a tenement in Dublin’s Liberties. His father John was a ship’s carpenter and his mother Sarah was a silk winder who had worked in England before losing her job because of her support for the Manchester Martyrs. Wed, 01 May 2013 20:42:06 GMT http://www.eirigi.org/latest/latest290413_2.html Thomas J. Clarke, the first signatory of the 1916 Proclamation, was born on the Isle of Wight to Irish parents on 11th March 1857. His father was a sergeant in the British Army and the family moved to Dungannon, County Tyrone when Clarke was about seven. For the rest of his life, Clarke would consider himself a Dungannon man Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:22:20 GMT http://www.eirigi.org/latest/latest290413.html Several dozen éirígí members and supporters gathered in protest outside Woodbourne PSNI barracks on Belfast’s Stewartstown Road on Saturday afternoon. Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:17:46 GMT http://www.eirigi.org/latest/latest280413_2.html On Friday 30 March 2012, Diplock Judge Girvan, delivered his verdict in the case against Brendan McConville and John Paul Wootton, in which they stood accused of killing PSNI member Stephen Carroll some three years earlier. In delivering his verdict, Girvan stated that, whilst the evidence presented was circumstantial, that he nonetheless found it to be ‘compelling’. Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:30:29 GMT