The following events will be taking place in West Belfast from Thursday 28th April until Sunday 1st May. Thursday 28th April, 7.30pm The Devenish Complex The Untold Story – The National Hunger Strike Exhibition & Panel...
Read MoreWhile on the blanket protest Bobby Sands wrote a song, I Wish I Was Back Home In Derry, which he sang out his cell door to the air of Gordon Lightfoot’s song, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Bobby’s song has been recorded...
Read MoreThirty-five years ago today, the great Bobby Sands started his hunger strike demanding political status for he and his comrades. His death came after sixty-six grueling days. Bobby Sands is a hero not just to Irish people but to...
Read More2016 is the 35th anniversary of the hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. There will be many commemorations this year, which is, of course, also the centenary of the Easter Rising in 1916, an event that inspired Irish...
Read MoreThis year is the 34th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike which marked a historic watershed moment in Irish and republican history. The weekend of August 22nd August will see a series of events, including a lecture by Owen...
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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.