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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...
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...
