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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...
London Conference
The 30th anniversary of the 1981 Hunger Strike, in which ten men died in the struggle for political status, shone an international spotlight on the conflict in Ireland and irreversibly shaped the political developments for decades to come. ‘The hunger strike shaped...
Events Diary
Find below details of the hunger strike exhibitions and speaking engagements for the month of June. People organising future event are being asked to provide the national committee with as much detailed information as possible about venues, opening times, formats and...
‘A Splendid Resistance’
“Every now and then a rare book of quality drops on my desk,” writes our regular guest reviewer, veteran republican Gerry O’Hare. “You pick it up to scan it and an hour later it is still in your hands, every detail being absorbed. Such a book is ‘A Splendid Resistance...
