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Surfing Into Life on a Bathboard
This is the enigmatic title of former blanket man Jake Mac Siacais’s memoir which previously was published as gaeilge. Here, guest reviewer Roy Greenslade gives his opinion on the book, part of the growing canon of prolific republican prison literature. -oo0oo- ‘I...
On The Blanket
Many republican memoirs have been published in recent years covering a variety of prison experiences, from Síle Darragh’s John Lennon Is Dead, to Jaz McCann’s 6000 Days. Eoghan ‘Gino’ Mac Cormaic, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, first published his book as...
Death of Liam McCloskey
The death has taken place of Liam McCloskey, one of the surviving hunger strikers from 1981. Liam was originally from Dungiven, County Derry. He had been arrested in an early morning raid on his home in December 1976. Also arrested at that time was Kevin Lynch, his...
Aljazeera Feature on Palestinian/Irish Solidarity
The following article appears on the website of Al Jazeera and is by Yousef M Aljamal who co-authored the book A Shared Struggle: Stories of Palestinian and Irish Hunger Strikers, published by An Fhuiseog (2021). Hunger strikes show the history of Irish-Palestinian...
‘They did not flinch…’
Irish-American writer Tim O’Grady reviews the recently published book by An Fhuiseog, The Comrades, tributes to the hunger strikers by former prisoners, which is on sale through republican outlets in Dublin and Belfast. -oo0oo- IT IS DIFFICULT to approach this book as...
Morning Star reviews A Shared Struggle
The latest review of a book celebrating the resistance of Palestinian and Irish republican political prisoners has been published in the British left-wing daily newspaper, the Morning Star. Here is the review by the paper’s Gavin O’Toole: IT IS self-harm and a last...
Death of Tony MacMahon
Members of the Bobby Sands Trust were saddened to hear today of the death of Tony MacMahon (82), one of the best-known figures in traditional Irish music and a friend of the republican POWs, during earlier, grim times. In his time in RTÉ Tony, from Ennis, County...
We Stand In Awe
In 1981 Jim Gibney, a member of Sinn Féin and of the National H-Block/Armagh Committee, liaised with the hunger strikers in the H-Block prison hospital. He tells of that period in the book, The Comrades Three months after the hunger strike ended Jim was arrested,...
End of 1981 Hunger Strike
At 3.15pm, on this day forty years ago, the 1981 hunger strike ended after two hundred and seventeen days. With increasing family interventions as prisoners lapsed into unconsciousness the hunger strike as a weapon was voided. Within three days the British conceded...
Gerry Adams Reviews The Comrades
In his most recent weekly column in the Andersonstown News the former President of Sinn Féin and ex-prisoner, Gerry Adams, reviewed The Comrades. The book has sold out and is now being reprinted. (Featured photograph is of Republican POWs in England protesting on...
