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Reactionary Response
The Fine Gael politician who ordered the hijacking of the body of dead hunger striker Frank Stagg and for his remains to be buried under six foot of concrete has objected to a text-based installation of H-Block comms rendered into a work of art by Longford-born...
Protest Gathers Strength – Latest
L A T E S T - On January 11th there will be a Global Day of Action for Idle No More. On twitter, the hashtag is #J11. There is also a Facebook page here with more information. In Canada, Chief Theresa Spence is continuing her hunger strike and despite a lot of...
Morrison’s New Novel
Danny Morrison’s last novel, The Wrong Man, was set in Belfast just after the hunger strike and was about an informer inside the IRA. His latest, Rudi – In the Shadow of Knulp, is described as his “best ever” by reviewer Jude Collins. Although the Irish conflict is in...
Chief Theresa Spence Hunger Strike
Canada’s First Nations is calling for international support for a hunger strike and its campaign of protests in response to Canada’s Conservative governments attacks on Aboriginal hunting, fishing and land rights and its failure to live up to historic treaties....
Frankie Boyle on ‘Hunger’
Controversial Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle named the film ‘Hunger’ (based on Bobby Sands) as number one choice of his Top Five films. Interviewed by Metro magazine he said: “This is the story of Irish republican prisoner Bobby Sands’ hunger strike. It’s like a...
McGurk’s Bar Massacre
“On the night of Saturday, 4th December 1971, along with the other internees in Cage 3 at Long Kesh, I heard the awful news about the murderous attack on McGurk’s Bar. Within the Kesh then, there were many internees from North Belfast, and the tension as we tried to...
Açlık Grevi: İrlanda Deneyimi
Hundreds of Kurdish prisoners are on hunger strike in Turkish jails, some for over 55 days. Observers believe that political prisoners will begin dying within a week. Denis O’Hearn, author of the best-selling book about Bobby Sands, ‘Nothing But An Unfinished Song’,...
The Fight for what is Right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG7HYSH4GnA&feature=relmfu Extracts from Bobby Sands’ hunger strike diary appear in a new book edited by, among others, the Academy-Award winning actor, Colin Firth. ‘The People Speak’ is also part of a multimedia project which...
Haneen Zoabi MK
During Palestine Day at Féile an Phobail Palestinian representative Haneen Zoabi spoke on a platform with Sinn Fein MLA Pat Sheehan who was on his fifty-fifth day of hunger strike in 1981 when the hunger strike ended. During her visit to West Belfast Haneen also...
‘Music From The Blocks’
A young American student with an interest in music, “its power to tell stories, reinforce identities and express everyday political and cultural ideas”, has just had her work displayed on Fulbright and MTV’s University website and is asking people to view the...
