This feature, by Danny Morrison, Secretary of the Bobby Sands Trust appeared in the ‘Andersonstown News’, 3rd January 2011: A lot of the ‘state papers’ just issued in Dublin, Belfast and London under the 30-year rule relate to the 1980 hunger strike. Some of the...

Responding to a comment from a Conservative MP, calling for Irish prisoners in British jails to be transferred back to Ireland, Danny Morrison, recalls how throughout the conflict the British government adopted the opposite stance and cruelly refused to repatriate...

Events to commemorate the 30th anniversaries of the 1980 and 1981 hunger strikes continue next Wednesday in Belfast. On December 1st 1980 three women prisoners in Armagh Jail joined seven hunger strikers from the H-Blocks in an escalation of the protest demanding...

This year marks the 90th Anniversary of the deaths of former Lord Mayors of Cork, Tomás MacCurtain and Terence McSwiney. It is also the 90th Anniversary of the Burning of Cork. The events of 1920 are important in a national context, but carry even greater significance...

Dónal Donnelly, author of ‘Prisoner 1082 - Escape From Crumlin Road’ will be a guest speaker at the Peadar O Donnell Weekend in County Donegal. This cultural/literary series of events, held annually during the second last weekend of October, celebrates the life and...

Thousands of republicans marked the 29th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike in a march and commemoration held in Bellaghy, home of Francis Hughes and Tom McElwee. The guest speaker was Sinn Fein MP Martin McGuinness, Deputy First Minister. A large number of...

Today is the 29th anniversary of the death on hunger strike of IRA Volunteer Joe McDonnell from West Belfast. Veteran republican Jim Gibney here pays tribute to the fifth hunger striker to die in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. It does not happen very often that the...

Tess Buckley’s photographs of Kilmainham Jail, recently used to illustrate Niamh O’Sullivan’s book, ‘Written in Stone’, have gone on display in the Dublin City Council Offices at Wood Quay. The exhibition began on Monday 21st June and runs until Friday 25th June....

The death has occurred in Belfast of well-known republican activist and ex-POW Seando Moore. The Bobby Sands Trust would like to extend its condolences to Seando’s wife Patricia and the wider McCabe and Moore family circles. Go ndeanna Dia trocaire air. Thousands of...

Researchers at Stella Maris Secondary School have unearthed early photographs of a young Bobby Sands as part of their study of past pupils who were killed during the conflict. On their website they say: “Twenty six past pupils whose names are known were killed during...