BOBBY SANDS MP!
On 9 April, 1981, the people of Fermanagh and South Tyrone went to the polls in a by-election to...
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Art inspired by 1981 Hunger Strike
A new exhibition of four hundred original drawings by the Franco-Irish artist, David Ryan, opened...
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Patsy & Raymond join the Hunger Strike
Today (22 March, 1981) Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O’Hara join Bobby Sands (1 March) and Francis...
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Francis Hughes begins his hunger strike
On this day (15 March, 1981), forty years ago, Bellaghy IRA Volunteer Francis Hughes joins Bobby...
Read MoreGuthanna ’81 | Voices of ’81
A series of interviews with eye-witnesses from the time of the 1981 hunger strike are being recorded and will appear on social media over the next few months. You can go to this link to hear the first few recordings with Brendan...
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.