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Conférence/ Débat – PARIS
Il y a 31 ans 10 Irlandais du Nord de l’Irlande mourraient au terme d’une longue grève de la faim pour réclamer le statut de prisonniers politiques que l’État britannique leur refusait. Un mouvement immense de solidarité internationale s’organisa face au courage et...
Florence Names Bobby Sands St
This week Florence City Council voted to name a street after Bobby Sands who died on hunger strike in 1981 fighting for political status. There was a discussion and when it came to a vote 33 city councillors out of 34 voted in favour of the street naming and there was...
‘A Great Relief’
“A great relief,” is how Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, described the ending of Khader Adnan’s hunger strike and a deal which will see him released early by Israeli authorities who will not allegedly renew the order of...
Solidarity – Bobby Sands Trust
On behalf of the Bobby Sands Trust, its secretary Danny Morrison has called upon the Israeli government to immediately release Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan who is close to death. Danny Morrison said: “Here in Ireland the British government’s prime minister...
‘The West Bank’s Bobby Sands’
That was the headline of a story in today’s edition of ‘The Independent’ by Donald MacIntyre where he also said that “Khader Adnan’s two-month hunger strike has made him a hero among Palestinians outraged by Israel’s policy of arbitrary detention. Below is the text of...
Fifty Days On Hunger Strike
A Palestinian prisoner, 33-year-old Khader Adnan, passed his fiftieth day on hunger strike last week, protesting along with 300 other inmates against the Israeli policy of internment without trial (‘administrative detention’). Details about the case (below) can be...
Long Kesh & Bloody Sunday
Forty years ago Ireland was convulsed by the British army murders of fourteen civil rights demonstrators on the streets of Derry on a day that became known as Bloody Sunday. The march was organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) which had...
Solidarity With Leonard Peltier
February 4th has been named as International Day of Solidarity with Leonard Peltier. In Ireland there will be a protest outside the US Embassy at Ballsbridge in Dublin at 2pm next Saturday. The guest speaker will be Native American activist Jean Ann Day. There will...
Waged by the Brave
Former republican prisoner Jim Gibney here reviews and praises a new book about the struggle waged by Irish prisoners incarcerated in British jails throughout the recent conflict: When the Balcombe Street men walked into the 1998 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis, they were...
City Hall Unveiling
A print bearing a quote from Bobby Sands was unveiled in Belfast City Hall last Thursday, 8th December, by the former IRA leader of the blanket men, Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane. The print is a copy of a canvass painted by muralist and former republican POW Gerry ‘Mo...
