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Inside A Hunger Strike
Denis O’Hearn, author of the biography on Bobby Sands, ‘Nothing But An Unfinished song’, is Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University, USA, and has recently been involved in campaigning for the rights of death sentenced prisoners in US Supermax Prisons. Here, he...
Anniversary Mass Announced
It has been announced that Mass in memory of the 1981 hunger strikers and for their families will be celebrated in Clonard Monastery, West Belfast, on Sunday, 13th February at 4pm. Afterwards, refreshments will be served in Clonard Hall where there will be a...
Special Armagh Visit
Last December 1st, on the 30th anniversary of the hunger strike by three women in Armagh Gaol, the majority of the women who had participated in the no-work and no-wash protests there gathered for a special reunion and commemoration. The women came from north, east...
Pat Sheehan Profiled
Pat Sheehan, an IRA Volunteer longest on the 1981 hunger strike when it ended, is featured in an article simultaneously published in today’s Belfast Telegraph and the London Independent. Pat, a widower with a young son to the late Siobhan O’Hanlon, served a total of...
The Tragedy of 1980
This feature, by Danny Morrison, Secretary of the Bobby Sands Trust appeared in the ‘Andersonstown News’, 3rd January 2011: A lot of the ‘state papers’ just issued in Dublin, Belfast and London under the 30-year rule relate to the 1980 hunger strike. Some of the...
Trust Condemns Italian Group
Danny Morrison has issued a statement on behalf of the Bobby Sands Trust condemning an Italian group for misappropriating the name and image of Bobby Sands in an attempt to garner credibility and support. He said: “A few weeks ago we received a number of emails in...
A Legend That Spans Continents
Last August three Irish men, Kevin McHugh, Ivan Macken and Larry Mulligan set out on a 40,000km cycle across five continents hoping to raise £50,000 in aid of the Irish Cancer Society. Their astonishing journey has been posted on the internet. In this post, from Iran,...
Prison Transfers Were All One-Way
Responding to a comment from a Conservative MP, calling for Irish prisoners in British jails to be transferred back to Ireland, Danny Morrison, recalls how throughout the conflict the British government adopted the opposite stance and cruelly refused to repatriate...
Hunger Strikers Face Trial
The trial has begun of 20 of the 34 Chilean Mapuche prisoners who staged a long hunger strike to oppose the application of the anti-terrorist law in their cases. In a system reminiscent of the British use of internment-by-remand and the use of supergrasses Mapuche...
30ú Comóradh
Events to commemorate the 30th anniversaries of the 1980 and 1981 hunger strikes continue next Wednesday in Belfast. On December 1st 1980 three women prisoners in Armagh Jail joined seven hunger strikers from the H-Blocks in an escalation of the protest demanding...
