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Coalition of Irish Republican Women

An tsaoirse, an chothothroime agus an choir shoisialta.. .... ..Still and always an Unrepentant Taig

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We are a group of women who support a united 32 county Irish republic with Freedom, Equality and Social Justice; free from British rule and occupation. We are actively trying to form a new national or international group and are looking for like-minded Irish Republicans. At this point we know we support:All republican prisoners; The Proclamation of the Irish Republic; all means to attain the 32 county united republic. We plan to actively work with other Irish Republican support groups to help to educate and attain support for a republican agenda across the 32 counties.We take no definitive position on the Good Friday Agreement. We believe in justice, equality, and peace. However, we know that neither peace nor justice ever will exist in the six occupied counties until all representatives of the British government leave Ireland and all vestiges of British occupation are expunged.
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Roisin McAliskey was released on bail by a Belfast court Monday. German authorities have secured a warrant from the EU courts to have her extradited to face charges in Germany over a 1996 bomb attack on an Army barracks in Osnabruck. She had face similar charges in 1996 and was held for sixteen months in Holloway Prison in Britain.Read more about the background of this case: *http://larkspirit.com/roisin/ * *http://www.manxman.co.im/cleague/archive/roisin.html * *http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/21/europe/EU-GEN- NIreland-Germany-IRA.php * *http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6676049.stm *the extradition hearing is set for June 6, 2007. ************************************************************ *******************Semi Good News*************************June 6th, 2007The extradition bid for Roisin McAliskey was put on hold until June 27 to allow her lawyers to prepare an abuse of process application. Her defence solicitor Peter Corrigan told Belfast Recorder's Court on Tuesday that the case had been "politically motivated" at the highest level of the Northern Ireland Office. From the Crown Prosecution Website: http://cps.gov.uk/legal/section13/chapter_c.html#_Toc32 76988 Abuse of Process - Definition Abuse of process has been defined as something so unfair and wrong with the prosecution that the court should not allow a prosecutor to proceed with what is, in all other respects, a regular proceeding: Hui-chi Ming v R (1992) 1 AC 34. What is unfair and wrong is for the court to determine on the individual facts of each case.******************************************************* ****Petition TO OPPOSE THE PROPOSED EXTRADITION FOR ROISIN MCALISKEY IS NOW ON LINE AT: http://www.petitiononline.com/r26m6no1/petition.htmlPlease read, sign and pass on ------UPDATE------UPDATE------UPDATE------UPDATE----- The June 27th hearing was adjourned until August 22nd, 2007. Civil Rights Attorney Gareth Pierce will give evidence on the abuse Roisin suffered in Castlereigh and while in prision in England. All campaigns to fight the extradition are still running with the addition of the official website: www.friendsofroisinmcaliskey.info which has both an email and a postal campaign. Please do stop by and read the information posted on this site and sign in for the campaign's to fight this miscarriage of justice.**************************************************** *******

My Interests

A 32 county Irish Republic Nothing else matters

The CIRW would like to lend its support to the memorial being built for Republican women activists on the grounds of the Roddy McCorley Club on the Glen Road in West Belfast. The group responsible for building this memorial is Macalla na mBan, or Echoes of Women. Since CIRW does not have any finances at this time; we would ask that anyone interested in supporting in any way please contact Macalla na mBan at: 148 Springfield Road Belfast BT 11 7 DQ or phone 028 90 235323 The link for this article in An Phoblacht:http://www.anphoblacht.com/news/detail/18549".

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All like-minded men and women. Anyone interested in a free and united Ireland; people with various republican and/or nationalist interests; those who believe that Ireland's freedom is in the hands those who work to free the world of oppressive colonial powers; those who actively do something to ensure that Britian leaves Ireland for good and that the people of the island of Ireland should be and will be solely responsible for its 32 counties. Everyone interested in freedom, equality and social justice and everyone who stands for these principles. You can also email us at: [email protected]

"I would rather die on my feet then continue to live on my knees." General Emiliano Zapata

Music:


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WOMEN IN THE IRISH CIVIL WARIRISH REPUBLICAN WOMEN IN THE STRUGGLE WOMEN IN THE 1916 RISING

Heroes:


Republican mural, Ballymurphy Road, 2002. Republican woman wearing Cumann na mBan uniform, holding armalite rifle, other volunteers marching with flags of Irish provinces in background. Six portraits of women (one 14 year old girl); from top right, Anne Marie Pettigrew, Maura Meehan, Anne Parker, Catherine McGartland, Eileen Mackin, and Dorothy Maguire. All died in the period 1971-73.
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey “To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.” —Bernadette Devlin McAliskey Bernadette Devlin McAliskey speaking on socialism at erigi's James Connelly Commemoration.
Mariad Farrell killed by British SAS agents in Gibralter, March 6, 1988.
Countess Markievicz
Women activists in Kilmainham jail, 1916
Aine Ceannt, wife of Eamonn Ceannt; one of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising. After the Rising Aine became Vice President of Cumann na mBan from 1917 to 1925 and simultaneously a member of the standing committee of Sinn Féin.
Kathleen Clarke
Grace Gifford Plunkett
Máire Drumm~ "We must take no steps backward. Our steps must be forward, for if we don't, the martyers who died for you, for me, for this country, will haunt us for eternity." Máire was vice-president of Sinn Fein, when she was shot dead in a joint UDA-UVF operation on October 28, 1976 while a patient in the Mater Hospital on the Crumlin Road, Belfast.
Marion Price Jailed for her part in the 1973 bombing campaign in London and released in 1980. An opponant of the peace process and the GFA; "It is not; certainly not, what I went to prison for."
Roisin McAliskey 1982
Elizabeth O'Farrell
Helena Moloney and Maud Gonne
Dolours Price 2006; with a framed copy of the Proclaimation of the Irish Republic. Arrested and jailed from 1973 until 1980, along with her sister Marion. The sisters went on Hunger Strike to be repatriated back to an Irish prison and were force fed after 44 days. "Each day passes and we fade a little more. But no matter how the body may fade, our determination never will. We have geared ourselves for this and there is no other answer." excerpt from a letter to her mother; May 1974.