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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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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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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.