This An Phoblacht has exclusive coverage of the 50th anniversary of internment with first hand recollections of the time by Margaret Shannon, as well never before published diaries and journals by Jimmy Drumm and Danny Morrison.

Peadar Whelan probes the British Government amnesty proposals, while we talk with Sinn Féin Leas Uachtarán Michelle O’Neill on the challenge of being Joint First Minister in a five party executive. There are also contributions from Susan McKay on Unionism and Colin O’Byrne on a novel recycling scheme for glass and plastic bottles.
Seán Mac Bradáigh and Jim Gibney write on the Dublin Bay South by-election, Daithí Doolan takes on the War on Drugs, Muireann Dalton proposes a 21st century Cumann na mBan, while we also reproduce across two pages Danny Devenny’s painting of Bobby Sands and friends. Carál Ni Chuilín writes on life as a North Belfast, while Eoin Ó Broin previews his new book on housing defects.