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Raymond McCreesh Events
Here are some events taking place in the next two days to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the death on hunger strike of Raymond McCreesh who died at 2.11 a.m. on Thursday, May 21st, 1981, after 61 days on hunger strike. Friday, 20th May: There will be a talk in...
Francis Hughes Remembered
There was a large turn-out in Bellaghy, South Derry, to mark the 35th anniversary of the death of IRA Volunteer Francis Hughes. Supporters and relatives assembled at Gulladuff Road before parading behind bands through Bellaghy to the cemetery of St Mary’s on the...
Another Award for Italian Writer
Congratulations to Italian writer and journalist Silvia Calamati who last month was given an international award for her book Bobby Sands’ Companions. Women and War in Northern Ireland. The book is dedicated to Kathleen O’Hagan, a mother of five who when seven months...
Comrade Remembers Bobby
Pilib O Rúnaí is a former blanketman and was a friend and comrade of Bobby Sands. In this film commissioned by the Bobby Sands Trust, Pilib talks about the men with whom he was in prison, his last days with Bobby and what he feels is the legacy of the 1981 hunger...
New Edition of Best Seller
Pluto Press has just published a new edition of Bobby Sands: Nothing But An Unfinished Song, the best-selling biography by Denis O'Hearn that originally came out on the 25th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike (see former edition on home page). For a limited time,...
Kieran Nugent
In The Simplicity of His Defiance - Kieran Nugent. A name that makes you proud to be from West Belfast. A name that was on our lips for years. So familiar. Yet, go back. In truth, the Republican Movement in 1976 was very disorganised. One day a middle-aged man and...
Who Preached Pacifism
Father Daniel Berrigan, the radical priest whom, along with former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the British government banned from visiting Bobby Sands on his hunger strike, has died. Daniel Berrigan visited Ireland on many occasions. His record on civil rights...
Vigils This Week
There are many events taking place this week to commemorate the executions of the 1916 leaders and the 35th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands and the H-Block hunger strike of 1981 when ten men died over a seven month period. For updates please follow us.
David Beresford
Last week the South African writer David Beresford died. David had been the Guardian's Ireland correspondent in the late 1970s and early 1980s and was only one of two journalists who met Bobby Sands in prison. Beresford approached the Republican Movement after the...
Hunger Strike Events
The following events will be taking place in West Belfast from Thursday 28th April until Sunday 1st May. Thursday 28th April, 7.30pm The Devenish Complex The Untold Story - The National Hunger Strike Exhibition & Panel Discussion. Chaired by Alex Maskey. Speakers:...
