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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...
McSwiney Commemorated
This year marks the 90th Anniversary of the deaths of former Lord Mayors of Cork, Tomás MacCurtain and Terence McSwiney. It is also the 90th Anniversary of the Burning of Cork. The events of 1920 are important in a national context, but carry even greater significance...
Peadar O’Donnell Weekend
Dónal Donnelly, author of ‘Prisoner 1082 - Escape From Crumlin Road’ will be a guest speaker at the Peadar O Donnell Weekend in County Donegal. This cultural/literary series of events, held annually during the second last weekend of October, celebrates the life and...
Chilean Hunger Strike
More than thirty four Mapuche political prisoners in Chile have entered into day 69 of a hunger strike to bring attention to their struggle and force significant changes in the way the Chilean state treats Mapuche people. For more information go to here. ...
Bellaghy H/S March
Thousands of republicans marked the 29th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike in a march and commemoration held in Bellaghy, home of Francis Hughes and Tom McElwee. The guest speaker was Sinn Fein MP Martin McGuinness, Deputy First Minister. A large number of...
Bobby Sands Book Launched
The Vice-President of the European Parliament, Roberta Angelilli MEP, launched a book about Bobby Sands last Thursday, July 15th, at the European Parliament Offices in Rome. ‘Il diario di Bobby Sands. Storia di un ragazzo irlandese’ is the translation by Italian...
Joe McDonnell Tribute
Today is the 29th anniversary of the death on hunger strike of IRA Volunteer Joe McDonnell from West Belfast. Veteran republican Jim Gibney here pays tribute to the fifth hunger striker to die in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. It does not happen very often that the...
Kilmainham Photographic Exhibition
Tess Buckley’s photographs of Kilmainham Jail, recently used to illustrate Niamh O’Sullivan’s book, ‘Written in Stone’, have gone on display in the Dublin City Council Offices at Wood Quay. The exhibition began on Monday 21st June and runs until Friday 25th June....
