The award winning journalist, Robert Fisk, visited Belfast over the holiday period and wrote a feature for the London ‘Independent’, making historical comparisons between the Plantation of Ulster and Israel’s dispossession of...
Read MoreIndian journalist, Bhaskar Roy, in an article published in ‘The Times Of India’ (11 December), writes about recent political disturbances over the creation of a separate Telangana state and how a hunger strike is being used to...
Read MoreThe Connolly Foundation, Scotland’s Irish charity has just launched its new website: see here. The site offers information about Connolly and the activities and charitable purposes of The Connolly Foundation. The republican...
Read MoreLisnaskea barracks in Fermanagh (see photograph) was just one of many attacks carried out by the IRA during its 1956-62 border campaign. Veteran republican Gerry O’Hare reviews a new book about this campaign, ‘Operation...
Read MoreEdinburgh-based singer songwriter David Heavenor has written a song about Bobby Sands on his new CD. Heavenor says: “Sometimes ideas and subjects for songs seem to come from nowhere. I’d always had this idea about ‘Bobby in the...
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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.