The Bobby Sands Trust has sent its condolences to Randa Mousa and her family after the death on hunger strike of her husband Khader Adnan. Khader was the victim of a punitive and cruel Israeli occupation that singled him out for his vocal stance on Palestinian...

The death of Bobby Sands made international headlines around the world and was quickly followed by protests in various cities against Margaret Thatcher and British interests, as this new, short film (below) shows. In America, New York State governor Hugh Carey and New...

The following article appears on the website of Al Jazeera and is by Yousef  M Aljamal who co-authored the book A Shared Struggle: Stories of Palestinian and Irish Hunger Strikers, published by An Fhuiseog (2021). Hunger strikes show the history of Irish-Palestinian...

The latest review of a book celebrating the resistance of Palestinian and Irish republican political prisoners has been published in the British left-wing daily newspaper, the Morning Star. Here is the review by the paper’s Gavin O’Toole:  IT IS self-harm and a last...

As a result of a collaboration between Palestinian and Irish republican activists a new book, the first of its kind, has been published by An Fhuiseog in West Belfast and brings together the experiences of surviving hunger strikers from both nations. The editors were...

A new exhibition of four hundred original drawings by the Franco-Irish artist, David Ryan, opened in the Centre Cultural Irlandais in Paris and continues until 30 June—part of which and can be viewed online here. Though the exhibition is entitled ‘This is not a...

Long before Björn Ulvaeus founded ABBA in 1972, along with Agnetha Fältskog, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, the young student lawyer played in an enormously popular Scandinavian group, the Hootenanny Singers. Among the songs Björn composed and recorded in...

Earlier this year imprisoned Fatah prisoner Marwhan Barghouti led a 41-day hunger strike in Israeli prisons demanding improved conditions. Before and after the hunger strike his family had been denied permits to enter Israel to visit him. Last...

Palestinian prisoners' leader Marwan Barghouti, who has spent fifteen years in jail under Israel's brutal regime, has spoken about the mass hunger strike currently taking place, now into its fifteenth day. Barghouti said: “Having spent the last...