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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:...
Gordon Lightfoot & Bobby Sands
While on the blanket protest Bobby Sands wrote a song, I Wish I Was Back Home In Derry, which he sang out his cell door to the air of Gordon Lightfoot’s song, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Bobby’s song has been recorded many times, most famously by Christy...
Hunger Strike Begins
Thirty-five years ago today, the great Bobby Sands started his hunger strike demanding political status for he and his comrades. His death came after sixty-six grueling days. Bobby Sands is a hero not just to Irish people but to freedom-loving peoples around the...
1916 – 1981
2016 is the 35th anniversary of the hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. There will be many commemorations this year, which is, of course, also the centenary of the Easter Rising in 1916, an event that inspired Irish republicans throughout the twentieth...
National Hunger Strike March
This year is the 34th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike which marked a historic watershed moment in Irish and republican history. The weekend of August 22nd August will see a series of events, including a lecture by Owen Carron in the Drogheda Arts Centre on...
