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Francis Hughes – The Boy From Tamlaghduff
Today marks the fortieth anniversary of the death of Francis Hughes after fifty nine days on...
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About the Writing of Bobby Sands’ Diary
NVTV’s In Focus broadcast this film on Wednesday night, 5 May, the fortieth anniversary of...
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Bobby Sands – 40th Anniversary
Forty years ago, in the early hours of this morning, Bobby Sands died after sixty-six days on...
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Owen Carron recalls 1981
Owen Carron who was Bobby Sands’ election agent in the April 1981 by-election in Fermanagh and...
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VOICES OF ’81
Guthanna Voices of ’81 is a series of broadcasts of interviews about the 1981 hunger strike. So...
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Blanket Man’s Memoir Third Re-Print
There has been huge interest in Jim ‘Jaz’ McCann’s prison memoir, 6000 Days,...
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BOBBY SANDS MP!
On 9 April, 1981, the people of Fermanagh and South Tyrone went to the polls in a by-election to...
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Patsy & Raymond join the Hunger Strike
Today (22 March, 1981) Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O’Hara join Bobby Sands (1 March) and Francis...
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Francis Hughes begins his hunger strike
On this day (15 March, 1981), forty years ago, Bellaghy IRA Volunteer Francis Hughes joins Bobby...
Read MoreGuthanna ’81 | Voices of ’81
A series of interviews with eye-witnesses from the time of the 1981 hunger strike are being recorded and will appear on social media over the next few months. You can go to this link to hear the first few recordings with Brendan...
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Programme of Events
A programme of events to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike can be...
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Death of Alice McElwee
The Bobby Sands Trust extends sympathy to the family and large family circle of Mrs Alice McElwee...
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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.