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Nell McCafferty
News broke this morning that veteran activist and writer Nell McCafferty had died in her County...
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Michael Gaughan’s Anniversary
Fifty years ago today, 3 June 1974, Michael Gaughan, from Ballina, County Mayo, died on hunger...
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‘But still we resist’ – Bobby Sands
Letters and poems of Bobby Sands continue to be discovered forty-three years after his death on...
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‘The Lark’ continues to inspire
Bobby Sands’s life and sacrifice continues to inspire singers and songwriters, of which, of...
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Fassbender on Bobby Sands
‘This film is definitely the closest to my heart out of all the work I have done…’ So said the...
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Surfing Into Life on a Bathboard
This is the enigmatic title of former blanket man Jake Mac Siacais’s memoir which previously was...
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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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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.