Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane, a member of the Bobby Sands Trust, will be speaking in the Phoenix Cinema, 52 High Road, East Finchley, N2 9PJ after a special-screening of the film ‘Hunger’ on Sunday 17th May at 2pm. For tickets...
Read MoreOn the anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands Gerry Adams has paid a personal tribute to Bobby and his comrades who died on hunger strike twenty-eight years ago. Bobby Sands is one of my friends. I am using the present tense...
Read MoreAt 1.17am on the morning of Tuesday, 5th May, 1981, after sixty-six days on hunger strike, Bobby Sands died in his cell in the prison hospital of the H-Blocks surrounded by his mother, father, his sister Marcella and brother...
Read MoreLast Friday, 1st May, Sinn Fein MEP Bairbre de Brún, delivered the Bobby Sands Memorial Lecture in Cumann na Meirleach [Felons Club] Belfast. She took as her theme, ‘Countess Markievicz and the 100th anniversary of Na Fianna...
Read MoreFriday 1st May, 1981, as Bobby Sands nears death, supporters of the hunger strikers occupy the Labour Party headquarters in London. It was the British Labour Party who introduced the policy of criminalisation and the withdrawal...
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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.