This weekend, Sunday the 5th May, is the thirty-second anniversary of the death on hunger strike of Bobby Sands, IRA Volunteer, blanket man, MP, whose life, whose writings, are an inspiration to thousands upon thousands of oppressed people and political...

A thought-provoking piece on the continuing debate over a peace centre at the site Long Kesh/H-Blocks and unionist opposition to it is published on the website of The Detail. More can be read about The Detail here.

  Boris Johnson, interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s World At One today recalled the 1981 hunger strike and at first he was frank – but then you can hear his big ‘But’ come in to correct and qualify what he was thinking. He was asked was he always a fan of Margaret...

Whilst a song fondly recalling Margaret Thatcher – ‘Ding Dong The Witch is Dead’ – soars up the British pop charts, an attempt by a right-wing Paris councilor to name a street after Thatcher has been denounced by a left-wing politician who says it would be more...

  Much of the coverage of the death of Margaret Thatcher and her tenure as British Prime Minister has inevitably focused on her handling of the hunger strikes. Yesterday, within an hour of the announcement of her death, this website received thousands of visits...

Margaret Thatcher died today on the eve of the 32nd anniversary of Bobby Sands being elected in Fermanagh & South Tyrone with 10,000 more votes than Thatcher received in Finchley.    

Twenty five years ago today, three IRA Volunteers, all former prisoners, were shot dead in Gibraltar by anonymous SAS men. The three were Dan McCann, Sean Savage and Mairead Farrell. Today, three of Mairead’s old comrades from her time in Armagh Jail made the journey...

The funeral took place today in West Belfast of veteran republican and former IRA hunger striker Dolours Price (62) who was found dead in her home in Malahide, Dublin, last Wednesday. Former women comrades from jail flanked the Tricolour-draped coffin throughout the...

The Fine Gael politician who ordered the hijacking of the body of dead hunger striker Frank Stagg and for his remains to be buried under six foot of concrete has objected to a text-based installation of H-Block comms rendered into a work of art by Longford-born...

Danny Morrison’s last novel, The Wrong Man, was set in Belfast just after the hunger strike and was about an informer inside the IRA. His latest, Rudi – In the Shadow of Knulp, is described as his “best ever” by reviewer Jude Collins. Although the Irish conflict is in...