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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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Hunger Strikers’ Graves Cycle
Video coverage of last week’s ‘Hunger strikers’ Graves Cycle’ has just been released. The recently...
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Death of Mrs Rosaleen Sands
The Bobby Sands Trust regrets to learn of the death of Rosaleen Sands, mother of our comrade...
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WE WORE THE BLANKET
Laurence McKeown is a former republican prisoner. He spent sixteen years in the H-Blocks of Long...
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Many commemorations were held across Ireland to mark the centenary of the death of Thomas Ashe, who died as a result of force-feeding five days into a hunger strike in Mountjoy Jail in 1917. There was a march last Saturday from...
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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.