ON THE EVE of the death of Bobby Sands forty-four years ago tomorrow, a huge number of former prisoners and comrades, and over a thousand republican supporters, gathered at Twinbrook, Belfast, for the unveiling of a statue in honour of Bobby and those who died in the...

Of all the northern prison chaplains throughout our most recent conflict the cleric closest to the women prisoners in Armagh was the human rights campaigner Fr Raymond Murray, who died at the age of eighty-six last month. He was a chaplain to the prison from 1967...

The funeral took place of Brendan 'Bik' McFarlane on Tuesday, 25 February. Mourners, including many former prisoners, Sinn Féin TDs and MPs and Belfast City Councillors, and others who had travelled great distances, gathered outside his home just off the Cliftonville...

The Bobby Sands Trust has extended sympathy to the family of Dafydd Elis-Thomas, former leader of Plaid Cymru and MP who became a member of the House of Lords in 1992, and who died on 7 February. His funeral will be held at Llandaf Cathedral, Cardiff on Friday...

The Bobby Sands Trust is saddened to learn of the death of our friend and comrade and fellow Trust member, Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane, who died in hospital earlier today (21 February). We offer our deepest condolences to Brendan’s wife Lene and their children, Thomas,...

Tá an íomhá ag an suíomh seo ar Shráid Seibheástopol ar an múrmhaisiú is mó ar glacadh grianghraf de i mBéal Feirste, agus tugann na céadta turasóir cuairt air gach seachtain, beag beann ar an séasúr. Iontaobhas Bhobby Sands a dhéanann cothabháil air. B’iomaí...

The image at this site in Sevastopol Street is the most photographed mural in Belfast and is visited by hundreds of tourists every week, regardless of the season. It is maintained by the Bobby Sands Trust. Many artists have contributed to its design, including Danny...

The Bobby Sands Trust has welcomed the discovery of pictures of Bobby Sands taking part in the first political status protest in Belfast in August 1976, just two months before his arrest. The pictures have also been published in today’s Irish News. Bobby had only been...

News broke this morning that veteran activist and writer Nell McCafferty had died in her County Donegal nursing home. She was a founding member of the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement, a campaigning journalist and playwright. Nell was born in 1944 in the Bogside and...

Fifty years ago today, 3 June 1974, Michael Gaughan, from Ballina, County Mayo, died on hunger strike in Parkhurst Prison. Michael was one of the earliest IRA Volunteers to be imprisoned in England in the post-1969 phase of the struggle, sentenced to seven years on 23...