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California Prison Hunger Strike
Hundreds of prisoners across Californian jails have entered their second month on hunger strike protesting against inhumane conditions. Their key demand is an end to indefinite solitary confinement in ‘Security Housing Units’. Some of the prisoners have been held...
Tom Clarke, 1916
Tom Clarke was the first signatory of the Easter Proclamation, an honour his comrades bestowed on him in acknowledgement of the sacrifices he had endured for Irish freedom. Veteran Belfast republican Gerry O’Hare here reviews a recently published book on Clarke by...
Ghost of Prison Past
The New York Times, which during the conflict, and despite pressure by Britain, referred to IRA fighters as guerrillas, carries a considered piece on the preservation of some buildings at Long Kesh/H-Blocks and interviews two former hunger strikers. The full feature...
CNN on Bobby Sands
CNN, the popular Cable News Network, carried a feature on the 1981 hunger strike in response to the hunger strike by one hundred prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. In it are interviewed Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane and Denis O’Hearn who wrote the biography on Bobby Sands,...
The Palestinian Nakba
Next Tuesday, 14th May, is the sixty-fifth anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba. In Belfast the Palestinian Education Initiative is organizing a public lecture outlining the work and legacy of the world renowned Palestinian writer, intellectual and activist, Edward...
Remember the Past
Within hours of the news of Bobby Sands' death reaching the outside world, there were protests throughout Ireland and abroad. A reader has sent us this newspaper photograph of a march through Cork City centre on Tuesday, May 5th, 1981.
Bobby’s Anniversary
This weekend, Sunday the 5th May, is the thirty-second anniversary of the death on hunger strike of Bobby Sands, IRA Volunteer, blanket man, MP, whose life, whose writings, are an inspiration to thousands upon thousands of oppressed people and political...
Prisoners Force-Fed At Guantanamo
Extra medical staff have been sent to the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where almost two-thirds of the detainees are on hunger strike, with many being force-fed. to help address a hunger strike that has spread to nearly two-thirds of the detainees. The...
Unionists Resist Peace Centre
A thought-provoking piece on the continuing debate over a peace centre at the site Long Kesh/H-Blocks and unionist opposition to it is published on the website of The Detail. More can be read about The Detail here.
Boris Johnson on the Hunger Strike
Boris Johnson, interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s World At One today recalled the 1981 hunger strike and at first he was frank – but then you can hear his big ‘But’ come in to correct and qualify what he was thinking. He was asked was he always a fan of Margaret...
