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On The Blanket
Many republican memoirs have been published in recent years covering a variety of prison...
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Death of Liam McCloskey
The death has taken place of Liam McCloskey, one of the surviving hunger strikers from 1981. Liam...
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‘They did not flinch…’
Irish-American writer Tim O’Grady reviews the recently published book by An Fhuiseog, The...
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Death of Tony MacMahon
Members of the Bobby Sands Trust were saddened to hear today of the death of Tony MacMahon (82),...
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We Stand In Awe
In 1981 Jim Gibney, a member of Sinn Féin and of the National H-Block/Armagh Committee, liaised...
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End of 1981 Hunger Strike
At 3.15pm, on this day forty years ago, the 1981 hunger strike ended after two hundred and...
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Gerry Adams Reviews The Comrades
In his most recent weekly column in the Andersonstown News the former President of Sinn Féin and...
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‘Powerful… extremely emotional’
The Irish premiere of a contemporary dance, inspired by the writings of Bobby Sands and resistance...
Read MoreTHE COMRADES
There were three separate launches for The Comrades, a book written by former friends of the twelve hunger strikers who died between (1974 & 1981), with an introduction by the former leader of the women in Armagh Jail, Síle...
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The Final Say
Two veteran republicans who were involved in the secret re-interment of Frank Stagg’s body in 1977...
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Mickey Devine – 40th Anniversary
Mickey Devine was the last man—the tenth—to die on the epic 1981 hunger strike. Today is the...
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A SHARED STRUGGLE
A Shared Struggle— Stories of Palestinian & Irish Hunger Strikers is the latest publication...
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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.