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Basque Prisoners Translate Bobby Sands
French writer Julie Duchatel recently spoke by telephone with Basque prisoner Aitzol Iriondok who along with his comrade Jurgie Garitagoitia has translated into Euskara (Basque) Denis O’Hearn’s biography of Bobby Sands, Nothing But An Unfinished Song. Julie (with...
Brits Aware From Outset
Jan Freytag is a PhD student at Ruhr-University-Bochum, Germany, and is currently doing research on the ‘Prison Protests 1976-1981’ during a period when the British government ended internment and opted for a policy of ‘criminalisation’. In this feature Jan looks at...
Death of Peggy O’Hara
Today saw the burial in Derry of Peggy O’Hara, veteran republican and mother of INLA hunger striker Patsy O’Hara who died in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh on May 21st 1981 after 61 days. Peggy, who was 88-years-of-age, had campaigned valiantly on behalf of imprisoned...
The Rhythm of Time
Thirty four years ago, in the early hours of this morning, 5th May, Bobby Sands died on hunger strike after sixty-six days without food. There is not a day that passes when we don't remember Bobby, Frankie, Raymond, Patsy, Joe, Martin, Kevin, Kieran, Thomas and...
Marking Bobby’s Anniversary
This Tuesday is the 34th anniversary of the death on hunger strike of Bobby Sands. Many events, some private, some public, will be held in nationalist areas to commemorate Bobby Sands and the sacrifices of his comrades, Francie, Raymond, Patsy, Joe, Martin, Kevin,...
To The Brink
Former hunger striker Laurence McKeown's interview with Anns Sussman on NPR (formerly National Public Radio). NPR serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. This is the text of the interview which can also be heard...
Vicenza/Verona Events
Last Sunday, 1st March, was the 34th anniversary of the day in 1981 that Bobby Sands began his hunger strike which lasted sixty-five days until his death. Recently, another former hunger striker, Laurence McKeown spoke at two events in Italy to commemorate the ten men...
Councillor Attwood Proud of Bobby Sands
There is a certain irony that while the SDLP has declared its intention of supporting unionists in changing the name of a park in Newry named after hunger striker Raymond McCreesh, the namesake of a Belfast SDLP Councillor, a councillor in Queensland, Australia, named...
Hunger Strike In Greece
Former IRA prisoner Seanna Walsh was interviewed by Ethnos Sunday, one of the biggest newspapers in Greece, about the 1981 hunger strike, against the background of a Greek teenager who is now into his 25th day on hunger strike over his right to education. Seanna, who...
Yarim Kalmış Bir Şarkı
Next week sees the publication in Turkish of Denis O’Hearn’s biography of Bobby Sands, Nothing But An Unfinished Song. The book will be published in time for the Istanbul Book Fair, November 8th -11th . The book, under the Turkish title, Yarim Kalmış Bir Şarkı: Bobby...
