Category: International
Aljazeera Feature on Palestinian/Irish Solidarity
The following article appears on the website of Al Jazeera and is by Yousef M Aljamal who...
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Morning Star reviews A Shared Struggle
The latest review of a book celebrating the resistance of Palestinian and Irish republican...
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Palestine-Ireland – A Shared Struggle
As a result of a collaboration between Palestinian and Irish republican activists a new book, the...
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Art inspired by 1981 Hunger Strike
A new exhibition of four hundred original drawings by the Franco-Irish artist, David Ryan, opened...
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Barghouti’s Wife Banned
Earlier this year imprisoned Fatah prisoner Marwhan Barghouti led a 41-day hunger strike in...
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Barghouti Leads Hunger Strikers
Palestinian prisoners’ leader Marwan Barghouti, who has spent fifteen years in jail under...
Read MoreSands’ Book Now in Kurdish
Denis O’Hearn’s widely-praised biography of Bobby Sands has now been translated into Kurdish. Nothing But An Unfinished Song will be published this weekend in yet another language of one of the world’s oppressed yet risen...
Read More‘I dedicate this song…’
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIiu1xF92Qo[/youtube] Léo Ferré, the flamboyant French composer, poet and singer, who was born in 1916 and died in 1993, was a pacifist chansonnier and political rebel. His songs of...
Read More‘That Caught The World’s Imagination’
The US edition of Variety, the weekly entertainment trade magazine, carried a review of the film 66 Days about the hunger strike of Bobby Sands. Made by Fine Point Films, 66 Days premiered at the HotDocs Festival in Toronto and...
Read MoreAnother Award for Italian Writer
Congratulations to Italian writer and journalist Silvia Calamati who last month was given an international award for her book Bobby Sands’ Companions. Women and War in Northern Ireland. The book is dedicated to Kathleen O’Hagan,...
Read MoreWho Preached Pacifism
Father Daniel Berrigan, the radical priest whom, along with former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the British government banned from visiting Bobby Sands on his hunger strike, has died. Daniel Berrigan visited Ireland on many...
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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.