HUNGER Wins Again
‘Hunger’, the multi-award winning film about the last days in the life of Bobby Sands, swept the boards at the Irish Film & Television Awards [IFTA] in Dublin last night [14th February] winning in six categories, with...
Read MoreMonth: February 2009
Leonard Cohen sings ‘Kevin Barry’
We have added more songs in the Multimedia section, including versions of ‘Kevin Barry’ by Leonard Cohen and Paul Robeson. We hope also to gradually expand an international section covering well-known or...
Read MoreBob Doyle, Irish Revolutionary – Gerry Molumby
The last surviving Irish Volunteer, who fought on the Republican side against Franco in the Spanish Civil War, has received glowing, well-deserved tributes. Bob Doyle, an independent-spirited Irishman, died recently in London....
Read MoreRemembering Frank Stagg
Today, February 12th, is the thirty-third anniversary of the death on hunger strike of Frank Stagg from County Mayo. He died in Wakefield Prison, blind, weighing four stones after sixty-two days on hunger strike, his wife and...
Read MorePat Finucane Anniversary Events
A new mural was unveiled on the barracks site, Andersonstown, on Tuesday, 10th February, to murdered human rights lawyer Pat Finucane. This Thursday, 12th February, marks the 20th anniversary of his assassination by agents of...
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BOBBY SANDS TRUST
The Bobby Sands Trust was established to publish, promote and keep in print the extraordinary writings of Bobby Sands, who from prison isolation became an international figure in 1981, and who to this day continues to inspire Irish republicans in their pursuit of freedom from British rule.