Phoblacht

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An Phoblacht ( Irish for The Republic ) has been the official Sinn Féin magazine in Ireland since 1970 . It refers specifically to the traditions of the Republican magazines and the Republican movement in Ireland and is the highest-selling weekly political magazine in Ireland.

history

The newspaper was first published on December 13, 1906 in Belfast under the English title The Republic , in January 1922 under the current name An Phoblacht and later as Poblacht na hÉireann (Irish for Republic of Ireland ). When the publisher, publicist and politician Robert Erskine Childers was arrested and shot in November 1922, it marked the end of this magazine. From June 1925, the IRA again published a magazine An Phoblacht . From 1929 to 1931 the editors of the magazine were under surveillance by the British state. Issues were confiscated and editor arrests weakened the magazine. It was banned in June 1935 and allowed again in the summer of 1937 when the Fianna Fáil ruled. After the IRA bombing of British cities began in January 1939, a new Republican magazine, The Wolfe Tone Weekly , came out; it was banned in 1939. During the Second World War , the British government, which first introduced the internment policy , detained people believed to be members or sympathizers of the IRA. After the end of World War II, several Republican magazines came out, such as the United Irishman . It wasn't until 1966 that a group from Cork brought out a small magazine called An Phoblacht again .

When the republican movement split into an armed wing, the IRA, and an unarmed wing, the Sinn Féin, in January 1970 , the Sinn Féin first published An Phoblacht in January 1970 as a monthly magazine with a circulation of 20,000. At the time, the magazine published political analyzes as well as articles and analyzes on historical and current events. She pursued the formation of a reorganized republican movement. Seán Ó Brádaigh has been the editor-in-chief since 1970.

An Phoblacht is today - according to its own information - published weekly with a circulation of 15,000 sold; it was the first magazine to go online in Ireland and has around 100,000 website hits every week.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Donations ( Memento from December 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Ireland's Biggest Selling Political Weekly
  2. ↑ The name Wolfe Tone goes back to the Irish rebel and patriot Wolfe Tone , one of the leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, who is also considered the founder of the Republican movement of Ireland.
  3. ↑ a b c An Phoblacht: About Us History of An Phoblacht