Last Friday, 1st August, in the Felons Club, West Belfast, a marble bust of Bobby Sands made by a young Irish sculptor, Paraic Casey, was unveiled in the foyer of the club by former prisoners, Sinead Moore and Jimmy Burns. Síle Darragh, Bobby Sands Trust, chaired the...

Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness and Deputy First Minister has made bursary awards as part of the Bobby Sands Gaeltacht Scholarship to pupils of St Colm’s High School in Twinbrook, where Bobby Sands lived. The bursary is a joint initiative taken by Colin Sinn Féin and...

The Bobby Sands Trust regrets to learn of the death of John Sands (pictured front left, carrying his son's coffin), father of our comrade Bobby. Deepest condolences to his wife Rosaleen, daughters Marcella, Bernadette and son John;  to Gerard Sands and family;  and...

In April 2013, shortly after the death of Margaret Thatcher, Tories in her constituency of Finchley invited residents to rename their street after her in the expectation that they would be queuing up in their droves (and their Drives!). Instead, on the first...

Sixty years ago next Sunday, 9th March, Bobby Sands was born in Rathcoole on the outskirts of North Belfast. Bobby died on hunger strike on 5th May, 1981, at the age of 27, followed by nine more comrades: Francis Hughes, Raymond McCreesh, Patsy O’Hara, Joe McDonnell,...

Former republican POW and blanket man Rab Kerr has just issued a pocket-sized new guide to Belfast murals as a follow up to his 2008 book, ‘Republican Belfast: A Political Tourist’s Guide. "The book," says Kerr, "is aimed primarily at tourists coming to Belfast and is...

Veteran republican Gerry O’Hare reviews the recently published book, The Escape, by Gerry Kelly, the Sinn Fein MLA for North Belfast and former hunger striker who was force-fed for over 200 days in British prisons in 1973 and 1974 after receiving two life sentences...

Tom Clarke was the first signatory of the Easter Proclamation, an honour his comrades bestowed on him in acknowledgement of the sacrifices he had endured for Irish freedom. Veteran Belfast republican Gerry O’Hare here reviews a recently published book on Clarke by...

Next Tuesday, 14th May, is the sixty-fifth anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba. In Belfast the Palestinian Education Initiative is organizing a public lecture outlining the work and legacy of the world renowned Palestinian writer, intellectual and activist, Edward...

Within hours of the news of Bobby Sands' death reaching the outside world, there were protests throughout Ireland and abroad. A reader has sent us this newspaper photograph of a march through Cork City centre on Tuesday, May 5th, 1981.