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Thousands Pay Tribute
Thousands of republicans from across Ireland and many overseas supporters marched through Camlough last Sunday, in the national commemoration to honour the 1981 hunger strikers and Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg who had died on hunger strike in English jails in 1974...
Tom McElwee Commemoration
Last Sunday a commemoration was held in Bellaghy in honour of Tom McElwee, the ninth republican prisoner to die during the 1981 hunger strike. The parade assembled at McElwee’s home place in Tamlaghduff and was led by a group of ex-POWs carrying photographs of the...
London Seminar on Internment
Twelve-year-old County Armagh schoolgirl, Majella O’Hare was “executed” according to a former senior British officer who served in the North and is now a leading Tory MP. MP Patrick Mercer made this startling admission at a seminar on internment at...
Events in South Armagh
Details have now been released of the events in South Armagh preceding the National Commemoration march in South Armagh on 14th August to honour the hunger strikers, and other events up until the end of August. Saturday/Sunday, 6th/7th August - Bellaghy Social Club,...
Unique Reunion
A former blanketman from West Belfast, Seamus Kearney, has come up with a novel idea for a reunion of all those prisoners who took part in the H-Blocks and Armagh Jail protests and has taken it upon himself to fund and organise a reunion. “Thirty years have passed...
81 Commemorations Continued
25th July (Mon) - Arklow Art Galery, Main Street, Arklow, Co. Wicklow - National Exhibition 1.30am to 9.30pm. Panel discussion 7.30pm - Main speaker ex-H-Block POW John Connolly 26th/27th July (Tues/Wed) - Ballycolman Community Centre, Strabane - National Exhibition...
Bobby’s Story Wins Italian Award
Silvia Calamati, Laurence McKeown and Denis O’Hearn recently received the Alessandro Tassoni Award in Modena, Italy, for their book, ‘Il diario di Bobby Sands. Storia di un ragazzo irlandese’ (The Diary of Bobby Sands. The Story of an Irish Young Man) Rome,...
Joe McDonnell Weekend
Joe McDonnell WeekendThursday 7th July - National Exhibition in Rodaís 4 - 8pm Friday 8th July - National Exhibition in Rodaís 12 noon - 8pm Saturday 9th July - National Exhibition in Rodaís 12 noon - 4pm Friday 9th July - White Line Picket Connolly House...
July Events
7th – 10th July - Rodaí Mac Corlai Clubrooms, Glen Rd, Belfast - National Exhibition 8th July (Fri) - Carnlough, Co. Antrim – Harbourside, 6pm - Vigil for Joe McDonnell - Peadar Whelan 8th July (Fri) - Dublin – 4pm Mass, The Oratory, Blanchardstown followed by a...
London Conference
A conference was recently held in London to mark the 30th anniversary of the hunger strike. Describing the day’s highly successful events, Jayne Fisher reports. A fitting and poignant event to mark what was `one of the most heroic chapters in human history’ took place...
