Last August three Irish men, Kevin McHugh, Ivan Macken and Larry Mulligan set out on a 40,000km cycle across five continents hoping to raise £50,000 in aid of the Irish Cancer Society. Their astonishing journey has been posted on the internet. In this post, from Iran,...

The trial has begun of 20 of the 34 Chilean Mapuche prisoners who staged a long hunger strike to oppose the application of the anti-terrorist law in their cases. In a system reminiscent of the British use of internment-by-remand and the use of supergrasses Mapuche...

More than thirty four Mapuche political prisoners in Chile have entered into day 69 of a hunger strike to bring attention to their struggle and force significant changes in the way the Chilean state treats Mapuche people. For more information go to here.          ...

The Vice-President of the European Parliament, Roberta Angelilli MEP, launched a book about Bobby Sands last Thursday, July 15th, at the European Parliament Offices in Rome. ‘Il diario di Bobby Sands. Storia di un ragazzo irlandese’ is the translation by Italian...

Tim Brannigan’s mother was from Belfast, his father from Ghana. Tim’s Irish republican activism led to his arrest and imprisonment in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh in the 1990s. Tim’s powerful memoir explores the meaning of identity and is a book which has garlanded...

This week sees the launch in Italy of a new book about Bobby Sands. Silvia Calamati, a journalist and a writer, has translated ‘I arose this morning…A Biography of Bobby Sands for Younger Readers’ by Denis O’Hearn and Laurence McKeown which was published a few years...

Irish republican sympathizers gathered last Sunday, 9th May, to inaugurate the recently redesigned Bobby Sands Garden in Plougastel, Finistere, France. This garden was first inaugurated in May 1991 on the tenth anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands by Mr Andre...

  A musical tribute to IRA Volunteer Bobby Sands has appeared on a Corsican nationalist website - CorsicaNustrale’s Channel – and also on Youtube. CorsicaNustrale campaigns on behalf of Yvan Colonna, a political prisoner who is serving a life sentence.  

The Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948, when Zionist paramilitaries, on the eve of Israel declaring independence, attacked the Palestinian village and killed over one hundred villagers, including women and children. The attack, aimed at breaking Arab...

The memory of Bobby Sands and the struggle for Irish freedom are to be celebrated in Italy at a special conference on 24th April. The Historical Institute of Resistance in Pistoia (a city near Florence in Tuscany), which is an institute related to Italian anti-fascist...