“On the night of Saturday, 4th December 1971, along with the other internees in Cage 3 at Long Kesh, I heard the awful news about the murderous attack on McGurk’s Bar. Within the Kesh then, there were many internees from North...
Read MoreHundreds of Kurdish prisoners are on hunger strike in Turkish jails, some for over 55 days. Observers believe that political prisoners will begin dying within a week. Denis O’Hearn, author of the best-selling book about Bobby...
Read MoreExtracts from Bobby Sands’ hunger strike diary appear in a new book edited by, among others, the Academy-Award winning actor, Colin Firth. ‘The People Speak’ is also part of a multimedia project which includes a stage show which...
Read MoreDuring Palestine Day at Féile an Phobail Palestinian representative Haneen Zoabi spoke on a platform with Sinn Fein MLA Pat Sheehan who was on his fifty-fifth day of hunger strike in 1981 when the hunger strike ended. During her...
Read MoreA young American student with an interest in music, “its power to tell stories, reinforce identities and express everyday political and cultural ideas”, has just had her work displayed on Fulbright and MTV’s University website...
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The Bobby Sands Trust was established to publish, promote and keep in print the extraordinary writings of Bobby Sands, who from prison isolation became an international figure in 1981, and who to this day continues to inspire Irish republicans in their pursuit of freedom from British rule.