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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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1980 Remembered
Raymond McCartney and Mary Doyle were two of many republican prisoners who went on hunger strike...
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Death of Eugene McCabe
The death has occurred of writer, playwright, and pacifist Eugene McCabe (90). Eugene’s trilogy of...
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39th Anniversaries Marked
Today is the 39th anniversary of the death of Micky Devine, the tenth and last man to die on the...
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Thirty Nine Years
Today marks the thirty-ninth anniversary of the death on hunger strike of IRA Volunteer, Bobby...
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Death of Lily Fitzsimons
Well-known republican activist Belfast’s Lily Fitzsimons has died after a long illness. Lily was...
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Francie Brolly – A Great Irish Patriot
The death has occurred of leading republican Francie Brolly, a civil rights activist, a former...
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Comrades In The Dark
Two years ago the Bobby Sands Trust received an email from a young woman called Caitlin Barnett,...
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‘This was the battlefield…’
Writer and playwright Phil Mac Giolla Bháin reviews Hunger Strike – Reflections (now in its...
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Photos of Bobby Sands Discovered!
Incredible photographs of Bobby Sands from August 1976, possibly the last taken of him before his...
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Marathon Cycle Honours Hunger Strikers
Cumann Rothaíochta Kieran Doherty TD set out on their journey last Saturday, 21st September, in...
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Death of Margaret Doherty
Last month the mother of IRA Volunteer Kieran Doherty died in Belfast. Margaret Doherty was...
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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.