Ras goffa Bobby Sands
Bu Bobby Sands farw ym1981 tra’n ymprydio yng ngharchar Long Kesh yn Belfast. Ei nod oedd adennill statws gwleidyddol i’r carcharorion gweriniaethol. Serch hyn, ymddengys ei enw ar safleoedd rhedeg ar y we. Wedi...
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‘The Crum’
Veteran republican Gerry O’Hare did time, both as an internee and a sentenced prisoner, in Crumlin Road Jail between 1971 and 1973. He also served sentences in Long Kesh, Mountjoy Jail and Portlaoise Jail. Here he reviews ‘The...
Read MoreSoldat Louis – Bobby Sands
Here are two further songs about Bobby Sands. The first, ‘Bobby Sands’ by French Rock group Soldat Louis who mix traditional Breton music with rock can be listened to here. The second song is by Cork singer/songwriter Bébhinn...
Read More‘Chronicles of Long Kesh’
Martin Lynch’s play, ‘The Chronicles of Long Kesh’, has gone down a storm at the Edinburgh Fringe and negotiations are taking place for further productions of the drama which covers life in the notorious prison from the time it...
Read More“You Keep Me In Jail”
“You keep me in jail and you lock me in prison” form part of the lyrics of the Woody Guthrie song, ‘I’ve Got To Know’. The actor Tim Robbins recommended this song to the Trust which is used at the end of his brilliant political...
Read MoreBOBBY SANDS TRUST
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.