The Irish Republican Digital Archive (2026 Release #3)
The 2026 Release #3 is now live on the website. This release adds 800 newly digitised documents, bringing the archive’s total amount to 5861 items. This is one of the more significant updates to the Irish Republican Digital Archive and is made in collaboration with Brian MacDomhnaill, regular contributor irish_republican_archive and the Irish Election Literature website.
2026 Release #3 Newspapers
Over 250 Irish Republican Newspapers grouped together for convenience. They will eventually be redistributed into their proper sections.
- – 93 issues of Saoirse and the Republican Bulletin
- – 50 issues of An Phoblacht/Republican News from 1987
- – 42 issues of An Phoblacht from 1974 to 1978
- – 39 issues of Republican News from 1972 to 1978
- – 9 issues of Saoirse New Zealand
- – 8 issues of Volunteer from Derry
- – 8 Misc papers
- – 5 issues of An Phoblacht/Republican News from 1994 to 1995
2026 Release #3 1919-1979
This section covers the period from the Civil War to the late 1970s. Highlights include:
- – Message from Dáil Éireann to the World (1919)
- – Internment Order (1942) and Easter Statement from the Army Council (1942)- IRA Manifesto (August 1957), issued on the eve of the Border Campaign
- – Dan Breen’s Appeal to republican prisoners (1923)
- – Bodenstown Poster (1924) and Easter Lily poster (1935)
- – Irish Above Politics by Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1964)
- – Sinn Féin Educational Manual Vol. 3 (1967)
2026 Release #3 1980-2000s
Highlights include:
- – Sinn Féin Ard Fheis Clár for 1980, 1981, 1982, and 1983.
- – The RSF Founding Statement of 2 November 1986 and Ruairí Ó Brádaigh’s address to the Ard Fheis of November 1983, the last before the split
- – H-Block/Armagh Bulletins from April and May 1981
- – 7 issues of ‘The Captive Voice’ from 1991 until 1998.
- – Sinn Féin Constitution and Rules (June 1983)
- – Signposts to Independence and Socialism by Gerry Adams (1988)
- – A range of hunger strike posters and campaign material from 1981
Concerned (88 Issues)
Eighty-eight issues of Concerned, the organ of the Fermanagh Civil Disobedience Committee, from 1971 to 1975.
Summer Break
Since the end of January, I have scanned, edited and uploaded 1900 documents, much of it involving long journeys to access material that could not be sourced any other way.
I want to thank everyone who has supported the project during that time, whether through donations of material, sharing the archive, or simply following along.
Following a recent bereavement I will now be taking an extended hiatus from the project.
I’ll be back again when the time is right
Kind regards,
Alan
Irish Republican Digital Archive