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...
Read MoreDónal 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...
Read MoreMore 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...
Read MoreThousands 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
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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.